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    ready 300 lyfctedv that several ! of their veaseUs of artillery are suited for Topsham Barr to land tbeir cannon , all as neare Exeter as they can , and that aH Itliis day ithtey have been landing men and horse /*

    ' \ ¦ J ' " , ' "" mt ^ -m mmm art ^ ¦ To Baxter , on the Right of Antitrinitarians to be esteemed Christians . —( Supposed to be from Gilbert Glerke . )

    [ This letter and the next , and also a very long one on " - Original " -Sin , " which we propose to give in a future number , are in the same hand-writing as the letteir printed in the last volume ,, pTIIL 65—7 1 . From the initial signature of that letter , G . C , as well as from the internal evidence , we

    attributed it to Gilbert Cjlerke , the well-known and learned Unitarian , of whom we gave some account . Our opinion is confirmed by the date of the second of the two following letters ,

    viz . Lamport , which ( we learn from the Gazetteers ) is a village near Northampton , and Nelson , in his Life of Bull , before quoted , says that , on refusing to take his degree , he retired into Northamptonshire . Ed . ]

    « Sir , * ' As to your letter , for w I thanke you , I willingly acknowledge y Trinity in Unity ^ and X * to be not meer man but true God , ih y Scripture

    sense , therefore I am a Christian . Then as to your syllogism you know y * I denie y minor , w , if it should be false , how great must y error needs be , w <* unchristians all y Apostles and primitive X *™ n * , and all true believers in y world qu& such ; if I

    graunted both your propositions your argument would not conclude me * to be no Xtian , but only no perfect XtiAn , and surely such of my adversaries can be no good ones , who are not only so erroneous and stiff in their errours , but so uncharitable also .

    For y present I must denie y * iifajor , viz . He that denieth y t in X 1 w is most essential in him , denieth X , for admit your minor was true , yet Jesus was called X , in respect of hijs unction ; but God , above whom

    there is no other God , ( as Justin Martyr > according to y mode of those times , oft calls the Father , ) cannot be anointed . Maldonati in Evang \ thinkcs

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    y ^ y e disciples did not know y * eternal generation , till after jf

    blessed . J ustm Martyr sayeth y many orthodox Xtian ? placed y divinity of X * in his unction , as I noted before . But I doubt you will hardly find one good testimony in any of y three first centuries for that which you account most essential . J have read y

    and can fiad no such thing , but of the Arrian opinion enough . Surely Origeii ^ Testimonie for matter of Hig * torie > for what was or was not believed iny e churches , must needs be of great authoritie . See Contra Gelsu , li . 8 ,

    ( init . ) p . 387 , where he sayeth , it is no wonder y some few amongst 90 great a multitude of beleivers should hold rashly- * - aocv ^ pa to v ewl Txraai 6 eovj &c . ; but wee ( sayeth lie ) doe not hold so * who beleive himselfe ,

    saying , ' My Father is greater than I . ' What a multitude was there then of * no X tian 8 > in those days and after , when ye world groaned under Arrianisme * when Athanasius was against the world , and y world was against

    Athanasius , and y Arrian Councils were most and biggest , when Con * stantius said , ( as Theodoret reports , ) # c Quis tu es Liberi , qui solus cwm seelerato isto ( Athan . ) facis * Num

    authoritas urbis major est quam authoritas orbis . ( Li . 2 , C . 16 . ) < c To confesse Jesus to be ye X 1 is next to nothing since the grand apostacy , but in y primitive church an exacted Saviour was in better request ,

    it was to warpe indeed , in my opinion , to budge from that towards any angelical or super angelical essentialities or personalities call y what you will , for they could not tell what to call y first ; witnesse the noted saying of Hierom . * Obtestor beatitudinem tuam

    per crucifixum , ut inihi vel dicendaruin vel tacendarum hypostas-cwy de * tur libertas ; ' I glory in y t one mediatour—y c Man Xfc Jesus—made Lord and X —Ps . viii . ' Lord , what is man ? &c .

    AH y world hath seemed to apprehend some repugnancy to reason 5 but I have seldom troubled myself to

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1824, page 452, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2527/page/4/