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      Ton's Remarks Upon The System And Practi...

      dictator leaves us no alternative _btit submitting" to the charge of cowardice or publishing his rescript ; an easy way , truly , of trying tne co ? _ira <> e of an Editor _«? f a periodical publication : treat him \ _vith ' rudeness , and if he dbe 9 not make public . nd perpetuate _yquf insolence , sec him down for a coward . With all hl % _assumed knowledge of the Editor of the Monthly _Repository , ' J . D . is wholly a btranger to his real temper and characrer ; for whilst he _listens 'With deference to

      _remonstrances and complaints properly preferred and _enforced by _respectable names , he calmly despises haughty injunctions and angry menaces , whether they come from any _Jx _ctiiious ' _J _^ ohn Doc or Richard Roe , or from any more _substantial personage . But although we have not been well used by J . D . we pi _' omise to insert in our work his remarks upon the subject of his letter if he will _condo cea < i to write with decorum ; and , so well convinced are we of his talents ( of which the notice we have taken of him is ample proof ) that we shall not regret this rough introduction , should it lead to _^ further acquaintance .

      The reader _wiU find , below , M-. Bennett ' s reply to Mr . Marten , and Mr . M men ' s to Mr . Sturch . Here , if these gentlemen think with us , the controversy will drop . Nothing new remains to be said upon it , arid there is a danger of its degenerating into a war of words , or , what is worse , a personal dispute .

      Correspondence.~—0n Mr. Bcimctcs Sermon ...

      Correspondence . _~—0 n Mr . _BcimctCs Sermon _^ 673

      Mri.Bennfttt X On The Indecency Of His "...

      MRi . _BENNftTT _x ON THE INDECENCY OF HIS " _gEB | MON ., IN " _REPtY TO MR . B * MiWiTEN . To the Editor . of the * Monthly Repository

      - Si * , , __ ; . . , . ' __ . ' . 7 . . ; . y - ,: ' : \ . ; ' . . Is the _number of your Repository , for October i 8 _ot _> ( _Porrespondence _* p . 564 . ) 1 find a _£ aper addressed to you on the " Indecency of Mr . Bennett _' s _Sertiaon . " In composing and -delivgri & g that _Sermon , I " certainly did not consider what would please , but what was truth . I could be con ten-ted with what you hare said in your prefatory remark to the above paper , but I know that _several persons expect _areply

      from me . And therefore I beg the insertion of the following lines . Mr . Marten and I belong to the same body of _Christians , and I _confesi lie has _treated nie with respect and liberality . I shall endeavour In the freedom of my _remain , to return him the Wme usage . I am _astonished to find that Mr . M . should suppose _^ hat your _Reviewer , ip his review of my sermon , has cast . odium Upon the General _Baptist Assembly . But as this is a matter which more concern _^ your Reviewer than me I shali leave it to him to reply , or to pass it over in silence , as he may think

      proper .. ¦ , . , ¦ •' . . ' Mr . M believes that I am incorrect in supposing that _ths generality of my hearers heard me patient I y _* For the honour of the _caugregation . I hope I- arn not . I should think it a very great di grace to the _respectable _Assembly -who heard me , if it could be proved , that they did not hear an important subject * _inflation xo the evidences of chri tianity _, with patience . The _congre { ration , a _^^ fijfe as a spectator could judge , was perfectly _ordely and attentive . I was told aftef _^ _jR _^ _.-service , that one person , during trie delivery of the discourse , lost his command over the muscles tfc (

      of his face ; and that another said _> 1 ought to be flogged : and I had these in view when I used the words ** Most of you " These were all the marks of impatience with which 1 was acquainted , and sorry 1 am now to find Mr . M . in such bad company . Mr . M . seems to suppose , I had no reason to say , ** I do not see why anyone _Jiou d be alarmed at the idea of Joveph being the _father of Jesus . " But why not say it ? Why because , according to Mr . M . ' s letter , it implies ihat the General Baptists were alarmed at the subject , which he says was not the case . Well ,. but who said it was the case ? How came he to learn from that sentence : that I

      _charged the alarm upon my hearers ? If he will take the pains to read the sixth pa _^ e of my Introduction , he will sec , that , in all fairness o £ iatcrprctation _, the

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1807, page 673, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121807/page/53/