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Free And Candid Dl Sauisltions American ...
* ' There _vtfefre then living two -great **** nqt c yet very col _4 in their graves _^ from whom somewhat was expected _^ the bn _£ a superficial _pretender , the other a noble hardy veterag in tie cause of truth _&« d liberty . Tbe latter is reported poorly to have said that he had fit
in light enough , as if the light could _evpjr do hariny pr were _^ ver _sjaf _* _ficieut til ] jneq were brought to delight and walk in it * The other i » j $ et j / observed- _' 9 that the boto had been too long bent otie way , that is , as it is interpreted , the men , and the principles of a free and rational inquiry into the scriptures , had been too much encouraged _^ and therefore an opening was to be made lot other men , and other principles . **
By the asterisks in this . quotation ,, I apprehend that Lords spiritual we $ _e designed . The _^ superficial pretender _** was possibly Seeker who died in 1 / 68 * . The ( C h _^ _fdy veteran' * _toight be Hoadley who died in 4761 . The second letter thus refers to the Disquisitions ,
_" ¦ This book was compiled about 17 years agdj _fcad before _tfwas _printed _passed through the hands of a very eminent prelate of the church _without any brand or _mark of disapprobation put upon it * And soon after it was printed , it was publicly recommended to his jclergyby a dignitary , _now one of the bench of bishops * And though .
the two _prelates [ archjbishqps Herring atid Hutton ] who then presided jin the church , did not give it the encouragement that was justly _ex * - pected from men of their principles ; yet the last survivor of them [ Herring , ] and who filled the first place in the church , gave _proctf upon record of his love to the cause of liberty and free inquiry and which will be hereafter recorded to his honour .
' * There was another favourable circurnstance attending the _public cation of this book . There were at that time on the bench _threjeleartt _^ ed prelates , all of them born and bred amongst the dissenters , who might _wellhftye beenexpected to countenance such a work from th < _Hi more inatu re knowledge of the subject . When a friend of one of these
prelates now deceased was asked why his lordship did not lend , a helping hapd in so good a cause as he was in truth a public-spirited f man ? It was replied , that it might be a disservice for him , who had beep a di _^ sentpr " _, to mo " ve fijrst for ' _" " any ' alteration ' " " in the ' established forms . * ' K \ _"" ¦¦ '
One of the _" three learned prelates / must have been Seeker * before ¦ mentioned , who began his education for \ he _dissenting ministry under the Rev ,. Mr . Jones ; , tutor of an academy at Tewksburyt _* ? _Tht _lpiPiiUtuitt upon Seeker , _if he were really intend _^ , mm _3 pinfh _fe of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1807, page 645, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121807/page/25/
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