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    certainty of the past , the evidence of testimony , and the assurance of historical facts , for its present security ; that in consequence of this ripeness in years ,

    the phraseology of its infancy may now be found extremely inadequate , if not quite obsolete . The terms faith , justification , sanctification , redemption , &c , will then descend to that oblivion to which the ten thousand volumes of

    controversy they have occasioned , are already gone . It may then , perhaps , be apparent , that the fountain of our inestimable religion was as strictly Judean as u Siloa ' s brook that flowM Fast by the oracle of God : "

    and that the Christian Church was swathed in Judean bandages : it was afterwards papped and nursed by the Gnostic and Platonic philosophy administered to it by the mistaken officiousness of the fathers : the fair

    promise of its youth was blighted now by internal disorder , and now by external opposition : its manhood was disguised , and its strength crippled by that foster-mother , the mother of harlotry and fiction , who reared her throne on the seven hills of the eternal

    city ; destined for immortality , the enchanted net-work that enveloped its limbs is burst asunder . We now view its " lineaments divine , " and contemplate its stature emancipated from the thraldom of ignorance and

    bigotry . Henceforth , our song may be that of the Psalmist , " Lift up yo ^ r head s , O ye gates , and be ye lifted up , ye everlasting doors , that the King of glory may come in . ' W . H .

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    not remember to hare seen , except in the work from whence I now quote it , i «« The Memoirs of Sir James

    Melvil , " a favourite courtier of Mary , Q ueen of Scots , first published from his MSS . in 168 S- He passed through England , from France , in his way to Scotland , when " Queen Elizabeth

    was lately come to the crown ; " and " Newcastle , he fell in company vvith an Englishman , who wad one of the gentlemen of the Queen ' s bedchamber : a man well skilled in the

    mathematics , necromancy , astrology , and was also a good geographer , who had been sent by the Council of England to the borders , to draw a map of such lauds as lie between England and Scotland . " Sir J . Melvtf addiT ,

    " The Englishman and 1 by the way entered into great familiarity , so that he shewed me sundry secrets of th $ country and of the court . Among other things he told me , that King Henry VIII . had , in his life-time , been so curious as to inquire at men

    called diviners or necromancers , what should become of his son , King Edward VI . and of his two daughters * Mary and Elizabeth : that auswer was made unto him again , that Edward should die , having few days and

    no succession ; and that bis two daughters should the one succeed the other : that Mary , his eldest daughter , should marry a Spaniard , and that way bring in many strangers to England ; which would occasion great strife and altercation : that Elizabeth

    should reign after her , who should marry either a Scottishman or a Frenchman . Whereupon the king caused to give poison to both his daughters ^ but because this had not the effect he desired , ( for they , having suspecte ^ . poison , had taken remedies , ) he caused to proclaim tliem both bastards . * .

    It is then stated , that Queen Mary * " to be revenged upon her father ,, caused secretly , in the night , to take up her father ' s bones and burn them . " Sir J . Melvil adds , « This the honest gentleman affirmed to be truth , though

    not known to many . He was a man of great gravity , about fifty years of age . When he came to London he shewed me great kindness , and made me a present of some books . " Memoirs ^ Ed . % Edinburgh , 1785 , pp « 55 , ^ 6 .

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    Sir J . MelviVs Charges against Henry VIIT * 555

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    Sir , July 17 , 1818 . ONE of your early volumes contains the character of Henry Vlllth . as given by Sir Walter Raleigh , in the Preface to his History . He says , and offers proof for the assertion , that " if all the pictures and

    patterns of a merciless prince were lost in the world , they might all again be painted to the life , out of the story of this king . 11 [ Moik Repos . VII . 40 . ]

    Such was our first Defender of the faithy and so forth * There is a story , very likely to be true , so far as his ( Henry ' s ) own conduct is concerned , but which I do

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1818, page 555, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2480/page/19/