The LONDON MAGAZINE.

Or, GENTLEMAN's Monthly Intelligencer;

For JANUARY, 1768.

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THE

LONDON MAGAZINE,

For JANUARY, 1768.

To the AUTHOR of the LONDON
MAGAZINE.

SIR,

Tâ; μiSodría; Tou diaChou, Ephef. vi. 11. Late refolution taken in order to afcertain the ftrength of the Roman catholic in tereft in this kingdom, appears to be very generally approved; as being likely to produce fuch an exertion of legiflative authority, as may be found expedient to check its growth amongst us: and effectually to fecure the peace of the protestant establishment against future annoyance from that quarter. Every well-wisher to this country must indeed rejoice to fee the day on which meafures fo falutary are enacted, who has ever taken a view of the dreadful calamities formerly brought upon its inhabitants, when in a comfortable and innocent enjoyment of their invaluable and dear bought religion and laws, have had cruel deftruction levelled at both, and their perfons either treacheroufly afaffinated, or barbarously maffacred, and all this by the baneful influence of bigotry, and fuperftition, a mifguided and intemperate zeal; founded on erroneous principles; impreffed by early inculcation; and rooted by obftinate profeffion. But can plaufible pretentions to fanctityfavourite and amuling notions taken up at pleasure, and occafionally quitted be allowed by unprejudiced reason fufficient to warrant, or excufe the commiffion of grofs abfurdities, and irregularities, and manifeft violations of the most facred laws of God and nature? The dangerous confequences of fuch tenets, and the fallacy of thofe arguments used in defence of them, being to obvious, they at once ftand Jan. 1768...

exposed and felf condemned.. Nevertheless I fee with the utmost concern many of my well meaning country other ftrange conceits if poffible more men eagerly fwallow down thefe, and inconfiftent and romantic: and though gospel light thines with a meridian brightnels on this happy land, they fuffer themfelves to be deluded by the ignis fatuus of enthufiafm, and wantonly neglect thofe peculiar bleffings which the beft formed conftitution, and most reasonable and fcriptural fcheme of faith this day in the world, do afford them; adopt and encourage opinions and practifes that have a direct tendency to the fubverfion of both, and have already involved both in the most imminent danger, and diftrefs. To prove this affertion we need only refer to the dark annals of the grand rebellion, which contain glaring inftances of the most abominable and pernicious confequences of fanaticifin: in that fhocking fcene, the blackest characters were performed by men of this stamp. The like has operated very alariningly in later and different periods: And in the present age has proved fatal to many individuals. We not only fee it often afford to men of the most corrupt principles an opportunity of facrificing the property, friends, innocence, and every dear poffeffion of thofe who are unhappily betrayed by this fatanical artifice, to their luft and avarice; but have recent inftances of notorious vices being openly practifed, and impiously vindicated, by these wolves in theep's cloathing; nay to fo flagrant a height have they carried their outrage against all virtue, decency, and common fenfe, as to recommend the fame extravagancies to their followers: Some of whom I believe indeed unchargable with purfuits fo baie and abandoned; but being once feduced by artful infinuations, favour

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Where this contagious evil will end is uncertain, it is in its nature evident-ly deftructive to law, reafon, and religion. I would therefore earnestly recommend to those who are yet untainted with the poisonous infection of romance and enthufiafm, and to others not totally involved in this beguiling mift of the old ferpent's, feriously to confider, how we make way for him, by creating divifions in a communion that imparts every means of falvation, that either reason or revelation can difcover. And if any one fancies himfelf actuated by a degree of faith and grace fuperior to what he imagines in the reft of mankind, let him manifeft it by fuitable good works.

The unity of the church of Christ is its fureft fupport, and a fincerely pious endeavour to promote that important end, by an uniform and confiftent faith and practile, the peculiar characterific of the friend of God and man: This is the criterion that distinguishes the good man from the bad, and the true Chriftian from the bypocrite. I am, fir,

your

encouraged to hope you will publifh thefe lines, the defign of which is to rescue a part of God's holy y word from an interpretation, the moft foreign that could poffibly be given it. In attempting this, I thall make use of no human authority, but go according to the good old rule, The fcripture is the beft interpreter of itfelf.

In p. 638 of your laft Mag. A. N. has produced Dr. Lardner's opinion of thofe words in Eph. ii. 3. We were by nature the children of wrath even as others where by nature he understands cur former ftate, before we were en

Jan.

lightened by the golpel; that then we
committed actual fins as well as others.
But defire your correfpondent to turn
to Gal. if. 15. where the infallible
perman of fcripetrenies the fame word,
we are Jews by nature, pe by birth,
from which fignifies to beget. See-
ing this is the evident unforced mean-
ing of the word in one place, why not
in the other? Besides, by this con-
ftruction of Eph. ii. 3. that we were
children of wrath by birth (not by
cultom,) a needles tautology is pre-
vented, and the climax is preferved.
In the first part of the verfe the apostle
laments a course of actual tranfgreffions
in times paft, and then traces thefe
polluted freams to the corrupt foun-
tain, just as David had done before
him in pfal. L. 5. Behold I was
fbapen in iniquity, and in fin did my
mother conceive me.
I am, fir

Gentlemen,

Arms tavern for that purpoft, I
AT a meeting called at the king's
Ta

fee it has been recommended to us, fo
chufe for a representative for the city
of London, a gentleman from Boston.
What the particular obligations are,
the city of London owes to the town
of Bolton, thofe gentlemen will be
pleafed to inform us, who direct us to
look thither for a city member. But
it unfortunately happens, that at the
very time while thefe gentlemen are
withing us to think so highly of a Bo-
kon education, and recommending to
us a gentleman trained up in all the
principles of that loyal and obedient

little defirous of our good opinion, that
they are openly avowing the most un-
friendly difpofitions towards us; and
endeavouring, as far as is in their
power, to ruin almost every branch
of the trade of this city.

At a meeting of the freeholders, and
other inhabitants of the town of Bo.
ton, affembled at their town-hall for
that purpose on Wednesday the 28th
of September 1767, an alsociation was
entered into by which they promife
and engage, that they will not, from
and after the 31st of December, puri
chafe any of the following articles

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