quired to acknowledge, by fubfcription or declaration, the truth of any formulary of religious faith and doctrine whatsoever, befide Holy Scripture itself. "That your petitioners not only are themselves aggrieved by fubfcription, as now required, (which they cannot but confider as an encroachment on their rights, competent to them both as men and as members of a Proteftant establishment) but with much grief and concern apprehend it to be a great hindrance to the spreading of Chrift's true religion: As it tends to preclude, at least to difcourage, further inquiry into the true sense of Scripture, to divide Communions, and cause mutual diflike between fellow Proteftants: as it gives a handle to unbelievers to reproach and vilify the clergy, by reprefenting them (when they obferve their diverfity of opinion touching those very articles which were agreed upon for the fake of avoiding the diverfities of opinion,) as guilty of prevarication, and of accommodating their faith to lucrative views or political confiderations: As it affords to Papists, and others difaffected to our religious establishment, occafion to reflect upon it as inconfiftently framed, admitting and authorizing doubtful and precarious doctrines, at the fame time that Holy Scripture alone is acknowledged to be certain, and fufficient for falvation: As it tends (and the evil daily increases) unhappily to divide the clergy of the establishment themfelves, fubjecting one part thereof, who affert their Proteftant privilege to question every human doctrine, and bring it to the teft of Scripture, to be reviled as well from the pulpit as the prefs, by another part, who feem to judge the articles they have fubfcribed to be of equal authority with the Holy Scripture itfelf: And lastly, As it occafions fcruples and embarraffments of conscience to thoughtful and worthy perfons in regard to entrance into the miniftry, or cheerful continuence in the exercise of it. "That the clerical part of your petitioners upon whom it is peculiarly incumbent, and who are more immediately appointed by the state to maintain and defend the truth as it is in Jefus, do find themselves under great restraint in their endeavours herein, by being obliged to join issue with the adverfaries of revelation, in fuppofing the one true fenfe of Scripture to be expreffed in the prefent established fyftem of faith, or elfe to incur the reproach of hav、 ing departed from their fubfcriptions, the fufpicion of infincerity, and the repute of being ill affected to the Church; whereby their comfort and usefulness among their refpective flocks, as well as their fuccefs against the adversaries of our common Chriftianity, are greatly obstructed. "That fuch of your petitioners as have been educated with a view to the several profeffions of Civil Law and Phyfic, cannot but think it a great hardship to be obliged (as are all in one of the Universities, even at their firft admiffion or matriculation, and at an age fo immature for difquifitions and decifions of fuch moment) to fubfcribe their unfeigned affent to a variety of theological propofitions, concerning which their private opinions can be of no confequence to the public, in order to entitle them to academical degrees in thofe faculties; more efpecially as the courfe of their studies, and attention to their practice refpectively, afford them neither the means nor the leifure to examine whether and how far fuch propofitions do agree with the word of God. That certain of your petitioners have reafon to lament, not only their own, but the too probable misfortune of their fons, who at an age before the habit of reflection can be formed, or their judgment matured, muft, if the prefent mode of fubfcription remains, be irrecoverably bound down in points of the higheft confequence, to tenets of ages lefs informed than their own. "That, whereas the fift of the three I can discover nothing in the Petition which warrants the fevere ftrictures of the Edinburgh Review, charging the petitioners with fkepticism and dishonesty; on the other hand, every fentence exhibits their piety and fincerity. articles, enjoined by the 36th canon of the wifhed never in that house to proceed to Church of England to be subscribed, con- the difcuffion of orthodoxy. On a divifion, tains a recognition of his majefty's fuprem- it was rejected, yeas feventy-one, nays two acy in all caufes ecclefiaftical and civil, your hundred and feventeen. petitioners humbly prefume, that every fecurity, propofed by fubfcription to the faid article, is fully and effectually provided for by the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, prescribed to be taken by every Deacon and Prieft at their ordination, and by every Graduate in both Universities. Your petitioners, nevertheless, are ready and willing to give any farther teftimony which may be thought expedient, of their affection for his majesty's person and government, of their attachment and dutiful fubmiffion in church it, however ftrong their wish to abandon and ftate, of their abhorrence of the un- it. christian spirit of Popery, and of all those maxims of the Church of Rome, which The objection of Sir Roger Newdigate to receiving the Petition, is fraught with folly and wickedness, and would forever preclude all reformation, and compel those who have been led into error to persist in C. tend to enslave the confciences, or to under- Sale of Zelotes Hosmer's Library. mine the civil or religious liberty, of a free Proteftant people. (Continued from No. V., p. 109.) 679 MILL (HUMPHREY). Poems, occafioned by a Melancholy Vifion, vpon Diuers Theames, enlarged, which by feuerall Arguments enfuing is fhowed. First edition. Engraved title by Droefhout." Sm. 8vo, cf. Lond., 1639. 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XXII. many; but Truth and Knowledge I have above measure affected: verily perfuading myself that a fairer, more divine fortune THE clofing paragraph of Brown's admi- could never befal a man.' Some title, fome rable Effay on the Relation of Caufe and claim I may juftly lay to the words of this Effect is perhaps the most valuable one excellent perfon; for the pursuit of truth which it contains (fourth edition, p. 461): hath been my only care, ever fince I first "A habit of conftant and quick analyfis understood the meaning of the word. For of every complex word which we use, or this, I have forfaken all hopes, all friends, read, or hear, is, in effect, to borrow the all defires which might bias me, and hinder very striking phrafe which has been applied me from driving right at what I aimed. to logic in general, like the acquifition by For this I have spent my money, my means, the mind of a new organ. The generali- my youth, my age, and all I have; that I zations of language are thus made to answer might remove from myfelf that cenfure of the only ufeful purpofes for which they Tertullian-Suo vitio quis quid ignorat. were devised; that of concifenefs in our If, with all this coft and pains, my purchase own filent reflections and in our communi- is but errour; I may fafely fay, to err has cations to others, and that of an artificial coft me more, than it hath many to find memory, fuggesting to us by affociation the the truth: and truth itself fhall give me phenomena comprehended in them. To this teftimony at laft, that if I have miffed of have thus completely under our command her, it is not my fault, but misfortune." every term of the daily nomenclature which we employ, however flightly fuch a power might be estimated by fuperficial thinkers, would be indeed to have a dominion of no ed in 1670, but not in the terms in which ordinary kind: for it would be to have the he wrote it; for the licenfers ftruck out maftery of that which subjects in some degree even the moft philofophic understandings, and which enflaves and fetters, with innumerable prejudices, the lefs difcriminating multitudes of our race. XXIII. The "ever-memorable" John Hales, in his Letter to Archbishop Laud, in defence of his Tract of Schifm, fpeaks thus of himfelf: "If they be errours which I have here vented (as perchance they are), yet my will hath no part in them, and they are but the iffues of unfortunate Inquiry. Galen, that great phyfician, fpeaks thus of himfelf: I know not how, even from my youth -up, in a wonderful manner, whether by divine inspiration, or by fury and poffeffion, or however you may please to ftyle it, I have much contemned the opinion of the S XXIV. my Milton's History of England was print feveral paffages, in which he related the fuperftition, pride, and artifices of thofe ecclefiaftics who lived under the Saxon kings: the licensers imagining that the clergy under Charles II. were ftruck at through their fides. Sir Robert Howard being told, that he was accused of having fcourged, in his Hif tory of Religion, the English clergy on the backs of the heathen and popish priests, he anfwered malicioufly and craftily, “What bufinefs had they there?" |