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Art. I. A Connected History Of The Life ...
Afcrr . ytlf ? An Ess . ay on the Existence of the Devil % and his Influ * enceonthell ^ an & find . By R . Wright . 12 pio . pp . 43 . Smith and Co * Liverpool ; Eaton , Holborn .
If to be a reputed heretic be vi | e Mr . ' Wfight 3 eems to have resolved that he will be yet more viie * He here disputes this existence stnd denies the influence of that being who is the life and soul of the popular religion . He expects , he says , obloquy ; but he prefers truth to a good name .
: m Some persons ( he adds ) seem to regard a denial of the existence of the devil as a step towards atheism , and to be nearly as much shocked by it as they would be to hear the being of God
questioned . Such persons excite our compassion . Those who deny the existence of the devil , only go a step farther from atheism tkati many Christians choose to advance . The denial of any agency in the creation , but what is under the di-
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( vine supenntendance , may be called ? the extreme point from atheism . " Prefi , Mr . W . argues the point with his usual good sense and persp i * cuity ; but we tKink that he takes for granted in this Essay more than in any preceding one , that the reader is acquainted with the matter in dispute . W ^ wish , in
particular , that he had more fully explained the distinction between the words , devil and demons , on which the question in a great
measure turns . This improvement may be made in the next edition , which not only the excellence of Mr . W . ' s writings , but the very oddness of the subject , will probably hasten .
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Obituary.
OBITUARY .
J8xo, April A, At Dover, In The 87th Yea...
j 8 xo , April a , at Dover , in the 87 th year of his age , the Rev . WILLIAM ASHDO W ' N . He was a native of Tunbridge Wells ; his father , Mr . William Ashdown , was for many years a respectable tradesman of that place . The sub * ject of our memoir early in life manifested a predeliction for reading and
study ; he united himself when a young man to the General Baptist Society , then meeting at Mount Ephraiin , in that neighbourhood , and became a probationer for the ministry , Leaving his native place in the year 1757 , he came to Dover to reside , attd unking with the
General Baptist congregation , he commenced his ministerial labours in that
town . Oct . 13 . ! 1781 , Mr . Ashdown and his colleague , the Rev . Stephen ^ hilpott , ( now of Saffron Walden , m Essex , ) nav-103 been invited by the people , were ordained co-pastors of the society . Mr . A .
J8xo, April A, At Dover, In The 87th Yea...
of late years preached but seldom ; but he employed his leisure time in a way highly worthy of commendation . His application to study was such as to enable him to acquire a large share of biblical knowledge , which is sufficiently evinced by his publications . In the year
1777 , he published a piece entitled , A Key to the Sacred Scrifturet \ a work of great labour and merit . In 1780 , he produced An Essay on our Lmrd ' s ParabUs . Jln 178 49 he produced a sensible piece on Baptism . In 1 794 , he presented the public with his treatise 00 5 fl / jfl , awork which excited a considera
ble noise in the neighbourhood , aid rendered its author very unpopular in the eyes of orthodox professors . To this piece Mr . A . never received a reply . In 1 798 , he published his Lttttrttofi * Hisbof 6 f Lanmtff , of which the review « ri rfpbke in terms of high commendation , * nd even invited the reverend prelate t #
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1810, page 258, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02051810/page/42/
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