On this page
-
Text (2)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
Till thy sfeditious prose provoke * our rage , And soils the beauties of thy brightest page . Thus here we see transporting scenes arise , Heav e n ' s radiant bo $ i , and opening paradise :
Then trembling view the dread abyss beneath , Hell's horrid mansions , and the realms of death . Whilst here thy bold majestic numbers
rise , And range th' embattled legions of the skies , With armies fill the azure plains of light , And paint the lively terrors of the fight , We own the poet worthy to rehearse Heav ' n ' s lasting triumphs in immortal
verse : But when thy Impious mercenary J > en Insults the best of jpriaces , best of men , Our admiration turns to just disdain , And we revoke the fond applause again . like the falPn angeis in their happy
state , Thou shar ' dst their nature , insolence and fate : To barps divine , immortal hymns they sung , As sweet thy voice , as sweet tljiy lyre was
strung-. As they did rebels to th' Almighty grow , So thou prophan'st his image here below . Apostate bard ! may not thy guilty ghost , Discover to its own eternal cost , That as they heaven , thou paradise hast lost !
Tiiie * impious and mercenary pen of Milton , and Charles * " the best of princes , best of men / ' are poetic fancies * equally amusing . YaJden , who died in 1736 , aged 65 , had been a contemporary , at Magdalen College , Oxford , with Addison , and
SachevereU , adhering to the political principles € > f Hie latter . In the heaven of Court-Divines and Poets , Kin ^ s , or Protectors , when Kings could hot be found , have always shone as stars of the first magnitude . Thus Sprat , who , as a young collegian , in 1658 , while hopeless of the return of xoyajty , cthaunted the praises of the decease * *} GromweB , « the subject of tile no * - blest pens and mos £ divine pfrapsies , *' Was ready , as a grateful Bishop , to celebrate , in a mournful Pastoral , the Apotheosis of Chaiies II . How diffe ^ eiit a place was discovered by tfce uncourtfy < iue vedo > in one Qf his Visions , for " all the Kings that ever mgned . " Orotiue too , in tria Vrtntoi profHtce * a » translated in 1652 « , quotes frr a *• true saymg" ; that ¦ all good
Untitled Article
Princes may have their names easily inscribed within the compass of one ring . " He , however , advises the people " to desire the best , and give God thanks for the middle sort , and bear with the worst , for the doctrine and example of Christ . *' PLEBEKJS .
Untitled Article
S 8 Yaldetis Malignity to Milton .
Untitled Article
Bromley , Feb . 4 , 1816 . Sir , IN the number for Feb . 1813 , Vol . viiK p . 110 , a curious " Quaker Creed" is given with some judicious remarks on it by ••• N . C ., in order
to shew your readers " what sort of a Trinity it is , which at least some highly accredited members of this Society profess to believe . " He was furnished with it " by a Friend , " who had , it seems , questioned his right to consider himself a Christian > " because he was understood net to believe in
the Divinity © f Christ . " Your correspondent replied , ' * that if by divkiity was meant , divine commission and authority , ] be believed it as firmly as any person *^—but that if this term meant , ** essential Deity , equality with the Father , " he did not conceive " that any person could prove such a doctrine from the scriptures . " The friend ** declined
entering into any explanations , " observing , ** that it was not the practice of ^ th eir Society to engage in theological controversy . " But in return for Dr . Priestley ' s Appeal , and ElwaH ' sTrial , he furnished " N . C . " with the said
** Quaker Creed , " which the latter sent for insertion in your Journal . It does not , as he remarked , even hold the doctrine of " a mere modal Trinity , " explicitly disavowing the idea of &hjteej > £ rs 0 nsf or essences , " in the Deity . ^ Phat in short , like other modifications of the Sabelliari scheme it
only supplies " a pretence for the [ partial ] use of orthodox language , wlifle the real doctrine is strictly Unitarian . Yet has this Creed been lately republished , verbatim , by an accredited J ^ lder in tiie Society of £ pends , William Alexander , of York , in his *
'Aunual Monitor , for the year 181 &" with this commentatory preface : Thje following explanation of the Unity of the Pivine fte&yp yrfa found in MS * a fe ^ years . ago , bearijpi ^ the n ^ arks of » oj being a vei ' y modern prpduction ^ btf without any cl ^ e by which to di » c « -
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1816, page 88, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2449/page/24/
-