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    require , in . many instances , a microscopical eyeknd intellect to distinguish . Whether , for example , the elements in the Lord ' s Supper should be distributed by elders or by deacons ; whether they should be received sitting , standing , or kneeling ; whether pure wine , or wine mixed with water ,

    should be used in that ordinance ; whether a preacher should read his sermons or repeat them from memory , officiate in a black coat or a white , or adorned with a gown , surplice or bands , or without them , &c . Whether such circumstances as these can be

    supposed to be of great estimation in the business of religion , the philosophical Christian may easily determine . Yet such minute circumstances and opinions have been the cause of contention and disunion among many who have borne , and who still bear the Christian name . A variety of other instances , as illustrations of the

    proposition announced at the beginning of this paragraph , will ... readily occur to the contemplative reader , and , therefore , in the mean time , I shall not farther enlarge . Having enlarged on the preceding

    topics much farther than I originally intended , I shall postpone the remainder of my observations oh this subject , particularly those which relate to the connexion of science with a future state , to another opportunity . T . D .

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    directly to the question , he had declined to commit himself ; conducting his argument so adroitly , that he might be considered , by different readers , as either believing or disbelieving " the existence of a real being-, called the Devil , or Satan . " I

    observed too , that Mr . Fell , his acute and severe , rather than liberal op * ponent , in the 6 th Chapter of his Demoniacs , had not been able , except by implication , to charge him with disbelief in the personality of a ' DeviL

    I remember to have read in your 7 th Volume , some strictures , which I was sorry to consider plausible , on Mr . Farmer ' s Christian sincerity , or , I would rather say , on his subjection to " the fear of man which bringeth a snare . " I wish the learned

    translator of the Catechism , or any other of your readers , would shew that , in the present case , Mr . Farmer has somewhere declared himself openly on a question , upon which he could scarcely , without a designed reserve , have avoided perspicuity . R . L . C .

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    Existence of the Devil . —Stonehouse on Universal Restitution . 4 ftJ >

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    Sir , June 23 , 1818 . IN the Racovian Catechism , lately brought before the English reader by Dr . Thomas Rees , there is a note by the translator ( p . 7 ) , to shew how * ' the Unitarians of the present day

    differ in opinion from the Socinians of Poland / ' respecting " the existence of a real being , called the Devil , or Satan * '' After mentioning , with just approbation , " Mr . John Simpson ' s Essay , ' the reader is referred to " Mr . Farmer ' s excellent Essays on the Demoniacs of the New

    Testament , and on Christ ' s Temptation . " Several years ago , I looked through those pieces to ascertain whether Mr . Farmer had ventured to meet and discuss , or rather appeared to have

    evaded that alarming question respecting an all but omnipotent rival of Deity , the orthodox devil . It seemed to me that , though his subject led VOL .. XIII . S R

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    Sir , Here Hegisy June 20 , 181 B . OBSERVE [ XIII . p . 32 , ] an in-I quiry concerning Stonehouse ' s Work on Universal Restoration . If no better answer has come to hand , let the following be received as in some views satisfactory . The person referred to was not " the Rev . Sir

    James Stonehonse , Bart . " the friend of the late Mr * Hervey , but quite a different person . The Rev . Mr . Towgood , Rector of Ashill , near Ilminster , Somersetshire , once shewed me the book at his parsonage-liouse , and informed me , that the author was a clergyman of the Established Church , somewhere in

    Devon ov Cornwall \ but as this was told me in the year 1791 , I cannot recollect the name of the parish of which Mr . Stonehouse was minister , but of the correctness of the information I have no doubt , as Mr . Towgood then corresponded with the author .

    At the same time he gave me a thick pamphlet , 8 vo . size , composed by the same Mr . Stonehouse , entitled , " Apostolical Conceptions concerning God . " It was a dry , mystical kind of book , arguing the writer to be a fanciful visionary , rather than a close and sober reasoner . If Mr . Towgood be

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1818, page 489, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2479/page/17/