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mit, and comply against their Conscience, and even begin their Miniftry with mental Equivocations. The Warmth with which he exprefs'd himself on this Head was fuch, and fuch was the Weight of his Character, that the Clergy of Geneva, were afterward released from these Subscriptions, and only left fubject to Punishment or Cenfure in Cafe of writing or preaching against the established Doctrine.

I fhall add farther, that fo much is to be faid for the Honour of our Diffenters here, that when A. D. 1719, the moft remarkable Synod or Affembly their Ministers have had these many Years met, and that on this Question alfo, the Majority openly rejected all fuch Unfcriptural Impofitions. And I have seen a List of seventy-three of those Ministers, who fign'd their Advices to the People of Exeter, (for whofe Sake the Affembly was called,) without infifting on any Unfcriptural Declarations: As alfo the other of fixty-nine, who figned to the contrary. So that, to use the Words of the late excellent Master of the Rolls, Sir Jofeph Jekylon this Occafion, The Bible carried it by four.

The Names of the feventy-three that were for the Bible were these :

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There are several of our Brethren, say these Subfcribers, confenting with us in thefe Advices, who defire we would fignify fo much to the World, tho' they have not here fubfcribed their Names.

N. B. This I look upon as the first Example of a Body of Chriftians publick Declaration for Chriftian Liberty in Matters of Religion.

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The general Baptists had also a very great Meeting in London about 1730, where the Number were about 120, who alfo came in a Manner univerfally into the fame Determination, of not making any human Explications neceffary to Chriftian Communion: But having never seen a lift of their Names. I cannot Preserve them, tho' they deferve it not much less than the former.

In the Year 1712, I publish'd my Primitive Christianity Reviv'd, all in one Volume, in English alone. Containing,

Part I. The larger Epiftles of St. Ignatius.

II. The Apoftolical Constitutions.

III. An Effay on those Constitutions.

IV. An Account of the Primitive Faith, concerning the Trinity and Incarnation.

To which are fubjoined, the Proposals for Societies, and Primitive Infant-Baptifm Reviv'd, already mentioned,

N. B. The Corrections and Improvements already made in the four larger Volumes, take Place here, and are to be allow'd in the reprinting of this Volume alfo.

About the fame Year Scheme of the Solar Syftem,

1712, I published a with the Orbits of 21

Comets; in a large Sheet of Paper, engraved on Copper, by Mr. Senex. Price, 2 s. 6d. Which Scheme has been of great Reputation and Advantage among

the curious ever fince.

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N. B. At the Orbit of the Comet, No. 22; (for tho' they proved to be but 21 at the laft, yet because one of them appear'd to have come round three Times, and fo is here esteemed three diftinct Comets; and another twice, and fo is esteemed two Comets; they appear as twenty-four upon the Scheme.) Add for the Place of the afcending Node; and change the Order of Writing on that Orbit, with the Length of the Tail, from one Leg of the Orbit to the other, that it may be direct in the Scheme, as it was in the Heavens. See also the Aftronomical Principles of Religion, Pag, 24, 25. for the Periods of one or two more of the Comets, which have been discovered fince I published this Solar System.

At the End of this Year 1712, I reprinted Dr. Mather's Old Paths Reftored, which had been printed the Year before at Bofton in New-England; and was an Extract of Calviniftical Papers, formerly by him publish'd, with a Preface of my own. Price 3d. I wish our present Calvinists would read that Preface

In the Beginning of the next Year 1712-13, I published, Reflexions on a Pamphlet, of Mr. Anthony Collins, intituled, A Difcourfe of Free-thinking, 8vo. Price 8d.

N. B. I have been informed, that when Bp. Burnet had read this Paper of mine, he liked it fo well, that he said, "For its Sake he forgave me all "my Herefy."

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At the End of March 1713, I published Synchronifmorum Apocalypticorum Series, or an Epitome of my Effay on the Revelation of St. John, in an open half Sheet of Paper, Price 6 d. But it being much the fame with that in my Essay on the Revelation itself, formerly publifh'd, and was afterward corrected alfo in my Literal Accomplishment of Scripture Phrophecies, and again in the 2d Edition of my Effay on the Revelation, this may well be drop'd, and not reprinted.

April 23d, the fame Year 1713, I fent a Letter to Dr. Sacheverel, which I afterwards printed in an half Sheet of Paper: And ftill later I reprinted it among the Papers relating to the Court of Delegates, of which hereafter.

The fame Year 1713, I publish'd Three Effays, 8vo. Price 4 s. 6 d. containing,

I. The Council of Nice, vindicated from the Athanafian Herefy.

II. A Collection of ancient Monuments, re

lating to the Trinity and Incarnation, and to the History of the IVth. Century of the Church.

III. The Liturgy of the Church of England, reduc'd nearer to the primitive Standard.

N. B. This is that Liturgy, which I have ever fince made use of, at Tunbridge and London; and in particular, when a few felect Perfons of us, that were no Athanafians, and chiefly on Athanafian CreedDays, formerly met together for publick Worship, for fome Years at my Houfe. It contains alfo the fame Form

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