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Jaicotfcrersation on a variety o £ topics * ft > ceK [ gicm . Wt hmvcrsea with evi-4 fett £ cait 6 km , anxious riK ? diseoveiv as &Tas possible , each other ' s thoughts , Sentiments , and feelings , and to form 3 £ correct estimate of each other ;
desirous of laying a solid foundation for 45 ? ose and lasting friendship , and cooperation in the same cause . We had Ifoth read , thought and preached otfrselves oat of our former religious con--flexions , and stood alone as
minis--iers ; nor did we then krvow of any Other connexion of ministers , or ^ churches , who would receive us , and with whom we could be comfortably connected . Finding each other thus situated-, and that the circumstances
s we ; hat ) passed through had been a gocxi xteal similar ; feeling that it was Unpleasant to be cut off from all religious connexions out of a particular society , we were anxious to realize , if possible , the prospect which had opened to us of union and
co-ope-4 &tiOn . I-have been the more particular in stating how my acquaintance with Mr . VidJer commenced , because it was the beginning ~ x > f a new era in my
life , and led , not only tomy improvement , but to the religious connexions 1 have since had v the pleasure of formingv and the scenes of public labour in which 1 have been engaged : and I tlhink it had some influence on his
subsequent progress and course . Oq the commencement of our acquaititan'ce , I discovered that Mr . vidler , liberal and candid as he was , xfcgarded what is called Arianism and Socinianism , with some degree of alarm . . Intimations of this kind
sometones escaped him when he wrote to me ; but his mind was not formed to he kept in ignorance , nor to resist evidtence on any subject . He could not help reading , thinking , and conversing freely on all subjects , and was sure to follow the convictions of his mind , and openly profess what he believed to be true .
. I have heard him relate many circuttistances which operated upon his inind > and led him to- embrace the doctripffiof the restoration , which &tove that be w-ajs always disposed lo
ibtnk freely and ? adm't the force of evidence : i 1 cartnot recallect them f $ 6 w £ » 6 as 'Ao * . states them with accurasp ; bmlt aona # . of fhein / were questions wkcdi- o * ^ einarks > made , by persons
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qn-his cQ ^ ra ^ EEtioTi at > Baddwor ^ bom h ^ happened to meat' -with in ^ chat ^ paTt of the cdunt-ry , which made -impression on his mind , and led to new tuarrrs of thought . He told me ,. more than once , that when he set © n * t on a long journey to collect rn one ^ for the building of the new meeting hour ? ar / Jiarttle , he was a Calvinist , ai ^ d that fere
returned home from that jo » rney wkh ver y different sentiments . This change he ascribed to what he had heard in conversation , and the ; botfksv which came in his way in the course of that journey , connected with some , impression ^ he had received as already
mentioned . He gave me a very interesting account of the meeting ^ £ » ewjesj > whe n he was expelled from the jaarttcofer Baptittt connexiori for ^ becommg an
Universalist . He had been appointed to preach the Association Scrmonitbat year 5 to prevent his doings this > the ministers met the preceding day , and expelled him from the connexion . — His old friend MiddletGi * , ' of Jkewtss , ho it
^ v seems highly esteemed i bun , was appointed to preach ^ t \\ e Association Sermon in his stead ; this was a sort of excommunication sermon . Mr . V . finding that he ajid his ^ supposed heresy were the subject of the
discourse , rose up and continued stand * ing during its delivery . Sxi . the course of it , after insisting on the pernioiow ^ nature and tendency of heresy ^ Mr . . M . seemed apprehensive somoof thefaeajr ers might conduide that those ' wh ? maintained such dangerous heresy must be had men , caswutioned tkein
against this , and saidy- " so far , from it , heretics are * 3 ometirne 9 * the holkosdt and be $ t of men ; but they i » r ® A . fch # more dangerous on . that accfranA . l' 1 tQo his saying thi ^ , Mr . V .. / fo 6 wed . He afterwards went with the ^ iMTObiters
who had expelled him , andvdinwJ with them and their friendH at 4 . he iuw . After the pinner , a suspioian > . Mra > whispered round the room , tbau / ftlari Mitkl letou , on account of some thvngB he had said in his sermon , tvas twae *?
tured with the same heresy , as Mr ^ A ( -This coi&Mfig ^ fcO ; Mrv , M ^^ eaf iih ^ drose and appealed to . IVlr . Y * whet haci ^^ believed ^ uch a siupiqion to / be , 3 ^ eli founded ^ on wiiic ^ -Mny , TO 9 f 8 , Aatwl declared ) to the cnmpan ^ i , that to ^ this bcaXof his kaaowiet ^ e and-Ujli «^/« Mtu IVL was , iporfectly clear of £ . th ^ ihctiiiy with which himsolf < staod chaK ^ d . ^ ji , . "Another * circumstance whioh Mr ,
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2 Religious Hist&ry and Character vf the brie Rev . W . V % dter \
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1817, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2460/page/2/
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