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Mri.Bennfttt X On The Indecency Of His "...
_ffiany of the _preachers and of those who had heen _representatives of tJie General _Baptist Churches most cordially expressed their friendship towards me and some of them declared , that , in thefr opinion , the attack which had been made upon ine w . is shameful and disgraceful- It was likewise said by persons of great respectability and judgment , and who heard the discourse delivered , that it must be published ; and that if it were published exactly as it had been preached , it would be a sufficient vindication froxn the calumniating charge which some had endeavoured to
fix upon it . This \ have faithfully done , without _suppressing , or having suppressed one single expression which was used from the pulpit . If I am not mistaken the act of the Assembly in acquitting me of the charge , will do the members of it more honour than the whole of Mr . M . ' s letter . There are thirteen expressions in Mr . Marten ' s list of indecency . Seven of these , are hot only scriptural , but are found in what we may call the popular passages of the bible . Were not all these passages of scripture publicly read in the Jewi h Church ? nnd are they not
still continued to be read ? Have they not been quoted by Christ and his _. _apostles _, in their discourses , and in the epistles of the apostles , which have always been publicly ' read in the churches of Christians ? Have they not been quoted , and that continually , in our public sermons , both ancient and modern ? Yes they hav e * Who ever charged them , with such indecency , that they were not fit for females to hear , before Mr . M . ? Nobody . Well , then , let him have the honour of the discovery . The remaining six phrases are to be charged to my account . And first- " The husband of the mother must be the father of the son . " Where are we to look for
indecency in this sentence ? Is it in the word husband , mother , father , or son , or in all of them put together ? Really I cannot tell . Next comes the word , commerce . _' * This is used in a quotation translated from Rabbi Isaac , and was used by Dr . Priestley _^ before me . And it is used by every other writer who has had occasion to conTey the same idea ; yea , even by farmer Trueman in his advice to his daughter Mary * Sec his 26 th discourse , page 187 , Unitarian Tracts , Next comes , " His descent is traced through the body of Joseph . '* Where is the indecency in this phrase ? Is there any thing more in it than saying , " Jacob begat Joseph . " Certainly not . * An unmarried woman should conceive a son /* 1 am perfectly at a loss to know
where the indecency of this phrase is to be found . I suppose Mr . M . _nearer rea _^ s the two first chapters of Luke in public . Wonderfully modest !! 1 have heard of a man who would not return thanks for a woman after childhirth in public , and I knew one who said , that a woman ought not to suckle her infant in company , and both pleaded indecency . *• An eye witness to the miraculous conception . " Here Mr . M . has outrun truth . The words " ¦ miraculous conception , " are his not mine . M The connexion between the Holy Ghost and the mother of Jesus /* The word < c connexion , " in relation to marriage , is frequently used b y the best of writers . As-l have used it in reference to the power of God with Mary , it raust be pure and innocent . Next comes , " & c . Sec . '' * What is behind I cannot tell ; but it is to
be wished that he had made his list perfect when he was about it . My opinion is still , that the charge is frivolous and vexatious . But _^ as Mr , Marten has we 1 lob- * served , <( It sometimes happens that the ? eal of good men leads them intof impru _^ . dence . _' * I now take leave of this charge * I hope for ever , and I shall make no further reply , until 1 see it better substantiated . I remain , as before , the sincere friend _t > f Mr . Marten , and 1 hope that \ ve shall meet as such at our next Annual Assembly . JDichlingy Nov . 24 , 1807 , A . BENNETT .
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Mil . 3 . MARTEN ' S REPLY TO MR . STURCII , O _^ MR . _BENNLTx ' s SERMON . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository * Sir , YotfR correspondent Mr . Sturch has commenced a war of recrimination against me in a tone very much resembling some of those gentry , who , styling themselves antics and reviewers , assume the right of whipping unmercifully all who happen
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1807, page 675, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121807/page/55/
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