1803.] 
from the privilege of a degree Proteftant- 
diffenters, and all others who approve not 
the eftablifhed church. Of courfe, fuch 
perfons complain again fubfcriptions as 
an oppreffion ; and even many members 
of the univerfity fpeak of them as a yoke 
on their own fhoulders.. I {peak of thofe 
who are of the learned profeffions, and 
friends to an eftablithed church, though 
they have never taken orders. 
Indeed, there are thofe in the univerfity 
who contemplate this affair in the molt fe- 
rious point of view, as immediately af-_ 
feéting the morals of the univerfity, and 
the liberties of the country. With the 
queftion concerning fubfcription, as it re- 
eards the church, they do not intermed- 
dle ; but, in urging its difcontinuance at 
the time of taking degrees at the univerfi- 
ty, they think themfelves but pleading the 
juf, the original principles. of the univer- 
fity, and the liberties of mankind at large. 
The perfon who firft made this attempt 
was Mr. Robert Tyrwhitt, of Jefus Col- 
lege, a gentleman of approved talents and 
learning, nor lefs diftinguifhed for his in- 
tegrity and benevolence. The refpecia- 
bility of Mr. Tyrwhitt’s charaéter gave, 
great weight to his propefal, and it was 
fupported by men of the greateft worth 
and abilities; but it failed of fuccefs, 
Mr. Tyrwhitt propofed his grace in1771: 
Dr. Edwards propofed another in 1787: 
this met with a fimilar fate. 
The queftion has been now afleep for 
fome years. When it is recollected, that 
the original founders of colleges impofed 
no fuch terms on their members ; that the 
man who firft directed them was a prince 
by no means favourable to the liberties of 
this country ; and that thofe who at his 
direftion firt exacted fub{cription exceed- 
ed, probably, even the powers of the uni- 
verfity ; it is natural to expeét that the 
queftion will be ftirred again on fome fu- 
ture day; and when the conceffions of a 
writer, whofe PRiIncIPLES of Moran 
and PouiTicaL Philofophy is now a 
ftandard book in the univerfity, are taken 
into confideration, it is not improbable, 
that thefe fub{criptions will, at length, be 
fet wholly afide ; but when, I fhall not con- 
jecture ; nor are thefe remarks introduced 
here in a f{pirit of difpute, but as matter 
of mere ftatement, or, at furtheft, of en- 
quiry. 
Archdeacon Paley, the writer here al- 
luded to, has the following reflections on 
the fubjeét:—* Though fome purpofes 
of order and tranquillity may be an{wer- 
‘ed by the eftablithment of creeds and con- 
feffions, yet they are, at all times, attend- 
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ed with very ferious confequences. ‘They 
check enquiry, they violate liberty, and 
en{nare by holding out temptations to pre- 
varication. However they may exprefs the 
perfuafion, or be accommodated to the 
controverfies and fears of the age in 
which they were compofed, in procefs of 
time, and by reafon of the changes which 
are wont to take place in the judgment of. 
mankind upon religious fubjects, they 
came at length to contradiét the aCual . 
judgment of the church, whofe doétrines 
they profefs tocontain, and they perpetu- 
‘ate the profeription of fects and tenets, 
from which any danger has long ceafed to 
be apprehended*.”” 
XLVI.—LIBERTY. | 
A man of Cambridge, diftinguifhed 
as much for his wit as for his learn- 
ing, being once afked the difference be- 
tween orthodoxy and heterodoxy, replied, 
«¢ Orthodoxy is my doxy, heterodoxy is 
your doxy :”” and it would be difficult te 
give a more accurate definition. The man 
who well examines his own doxy, before 
he believes, and who treats other people’s 
doxies with candour, if not with refpect, 
afterwards, underftands the theory and 
pradlice of liberty. Credulity makes bi- 
gots, and bigotry is the mother of intole- 
vance. 
XLVII.—-KING JAMES’S WORKS. 
Among the curious books in the public 
library, is a copy of the Latin edition of 
King James’s Works. It is bound in 
velvet and gold, and was prefented by the 
monarch himfelf to the univerfity. On 
the binding, the King has written, Jaco- 
bus R, D.D. This Latin edition, pub- 
lithed in 1619, 1s 4 tranflation of the En- 
glith edition, firft publifhed in 1616, by 
Henry Montacute, Bifhop of Winchetter, 
and Dean of the King’s Chapel. Both 
editions have portraits of the monarch 
from the fame painting, but the infcrip- 
tions are different. “The Latin edition is 
accompanied with thefe lines: 
In Carolo, Rex magne, tuam Natura figuramy, 
Ingenium {criptis exprimis ipfe tuis. 
Vivitiimago prior, non eft nocitura fecunda, 
Regi Naturam cedere non puduit. 
Under the portrait prefixed tothe En- 
glifh edition, ere the following lines : 
Crownes have their, compaffz, length of days. 
“their dates 5 * 
Triumphs their tombs, felicity its fate; 
Neg re et 
* Principles of Moral and Political Philo- 
fophy, Cap. 10. 
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