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opera's, plays or concerts are allow'd in London on Sundays; and even cards are fo exprefsly forbid, that none but persons of quality, and those we call the genteel, play on that day; the reft of the nation go either to church, to the tavern, or to fee their mistreffes.

THO' the Episcopal and Prefbyterian fects are the two prevailing ones in Great Britain, yet all others are very welcome to come and fettle in it, and live very fociably together, tho' most of their preachers hate one another almost as cordially as a Fanfenift damns a Jefuit.

TAKE a view of the Royal-Exchange in London, a place more venerable than many courts of juftice, where the reprefentatives of all nations meet for the benefit of mankind. There the Jew, the Mahometan and the Chriftian tranfact together, as tho' they all profefs'd the fame religion, and give the name of Infidel to none but bankrupts. There the Prefbyterian confides in the Anabaptift, and the Churchman depends on the Quaker's word. At the breaking up of this pacific and free affembly, fome withdraw to the fynagogue, and others to take a glass. This man goes and is baptiz'd in a great tub, in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft: That man has his fon's forefkin cut off, whilst a fet of Hebrew words (quite unintelligible to

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him) are mumbled over his child. retire to their churches, and there wait for the inspiration of heaven with their hats on, and all are fatisfied.

HF one religion only were allowed in England, the government would very poffibly become arbitrary; if there were but two, the people wou'd cut one another's throats; but as there are fuch a multitude, they all live happy, and in peace.

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HERE is a little fect here compos'd of clergymen, and of a few very learned perfons among the laity, who, tho' they do not call themselves Arians or Socinians, do yet diffent entirely from St. Athanafius, with regard to their notions of the Trinity, and declare very frankly, that the Father is greater than the Son.

Do you remember what is related of a certain orthodox bishop, who, in order to convince an emperor of the reality of confubftantiation, put his hand under the chin of the monarch's fon, and took him by the nofe in prefence of his facred majefty?

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The emperor was going to order his attendants to throw the bishop out of the window, when the good old man gave him this convincing reafon: Since your majesty, fays he, is angry when your fon has not due refpect shown him, what punishment do you think will God the father inflict on those who refufe his fon Jefus the titles due to him? The perfons I just now mentioned, declare that the holy bishop took a very wrong ftep; that his argument was inconclufive, and that the emperor fhould have anfwer'd him thus: Know that there are two ways by which men may be wanting in respect to me; first, in not doing honour fufficient to my fon; and fecondly, in paying him the fame honour as to me.

BE this as it will, the principles of Arius begin to revive. not only in England, but in Holland and Poland. The celebrated Sir Ifaac Newton honoured this opinion fo far as to countenance it. This philofopher thought that the Unitarians argued more mathematically than we do. But the moft fanguine tickler for Arianifm is the illuftrious Dr. Clark. This man is rigidly virtuous, and of a mild difpofition; is more fond of his tenets, than defirous of propagating them; and abforbed fo entirely in problems and calculations, that he is a mere reafoning machine.

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