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    For me , I thin . ^ ' tis something to be pleased on , ( N " ot being o . « e of the class called " the pliants /') If for this Trinit " ty-I draw the swrord Against the false one by the herd * adored . If Captain Parry ^ ' safe on British ground ,

    From zones wht * re bears and savages are bred ) , Had told us on sou ue ice-berg he had found A man three-hefc fed with a single head ; Should we believe it ? No . Tlie whisper'd sound Of such a leaden t alsehood would have shed Eternal ridicule aroui id his name , And damned f him to ' a sea-Mimchausen ' s fame .

    Moreover , had he told us 'twas a mystery , Would that have ma de it sound the less mysterious ? Would it rank less witt i fable , more with history , On Parry ' s Bible-oati i that he was serious ? No . Voyagers ! we sluould have to bleed and blister ye ^ ( Unwelcome welcome home , } as men delirious , Had you required us to 1 > elieve such gossip ill , Just in proportion as it & eemed impossible .

    Lastly , if , finding us still unbelieving , He should X proceed t o fetter , and to fine us For not as gospel all he chose receiving * , Should we not deem him rather mad or vinous ? And , if he sware ^ hell-fire we all should grieve in ,

    Should we not think him a strange sort of Minos—And , ere we gave up hope's immortal vision , Should we not beg to look at his commission ? Where state-religion is most pure , perhaps , It may have some slight tincture of impurity , Unfit to stand the slow , but searching lapse

    Of time , which waters truth to bright maturity Even mitres look sometimes too like fooPs-caps , When Irishops fulminate , in fond security , Orthodox : grape-shot from their paper battery , Meant , God-denying || reprobates ! to shatter ye . For it does * really happen , now and then ,

    That these right reverend friends of tithes and kings Smart under some Dissenting miscreant ' s pen , When they attempt a flight beyond their wings . Alas ! we are no more prophetic when We write a book , than in more trivial things ,

    * The fond sequacious herd , to mystic faith And blind amazement prone . —Thomson . t Like Cromwell damned to everlasting fame . —Pope . J See the Bishop of St . David ' s " Memorial on the Repeal of so much of the Statute 9 and 10 William ILL , as relates to Persons denying the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity , " &c . § " Whosoever will be saved , it is necessary before all things that he hold the Catholic faith . Which faith except every one do keep whole and ujndeiiled , without doubt he shall perish everlastingly" —Athan . Creed .

    || " God-denying apostates" —one of the many polite and Christian appellations with which the Unitarians have been favoured , merely because they cannot read the Scriptures with other men ' s eyes . U Another of these appellations—used ( proh pudor !) by the Right Reverend Thomas , Lord Bishop of St . David ' s , in addressing the public of the nineteenth century - -

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    422 Poetry . —Sk ^ yrio Fragment on the Christian , Mythology .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1824, page 422, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2526/page/38/