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    sefriexs af , e , illiberal * bigoted ^ and prejudiced , and Continually ^ Aclalmiaaga ^ iinst the church ; that on the mher hand , churchmen are

    moderate and candid , and seldom or iX ^ eyct preac h against dissenters . I axil ; very , sorry to find that he has been so unfortunate in his in . tercoiirse with dissenters . Surely there are some among them to whom his censures will not apply ; and can it be denied that there

    are some , perhaps not a few , of the established clergy , to whom they are applicable in their fullest extent ? I myself , for more than twenty years , attended the ministry of a clergyman , who , . from occasional passages in his sermons , and sometimes hints in his con *

    yersation , evidently regarded the principles , of dissenters , and especially of Unitarians , with as much horror , as any native of this country could a wild beast of the forest .

    I have read an excellent little book , entitled " A short History of the Persecutions of Christians , by Heathens , Jews > and Christians , written by Mr . Anthony Robinson , who , I understand ,

    used formerly tp officiate at the Baptist Meeting-house in Worship Street , London . There is an Appendix annexed to the History , in , which the arguments of Archdeacon Paley , in favour of an

    established religion , tire distinctly considered ; and , to my apprehension at least , satisfactorily refuted . The author contends , as I think , very justly , that there ought to be no establishment of-the Christian

    religion by : the civil government . Whether qr nbt Mr . Robinson ' s sirgnmepts would prove convincing to c M 3 . C h urch m an , V I can-Jiot pretend to determine ; but

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    they a # © cdFtainly i Hv $ ttl ^^ 4 ! i & attfeiHfefc * if he Sbatrta ttygry & with > he bck > k ; ^ Uh ^ iw ^ HL furniih him with andfhe ^ o & ft & lion

    to conformity , whifch r $ b & m * J fl 6 t to have occurred to hirifi ^ VT * * Speaking of our forjtt > fcT 6 oft % § spondence in the Monthly Re ^^ sjtbry , u A Churchman * ' ^ $ ^ my arguments , to him i ift want nothing , but the power df & 6 n §

    viction . ^ I hopg i sh & ll riot B ^ accused of an itn reasonable " proselyting ' spirit , wbea 1 express my regret at this tfedarkl tion , though I could scarcely hope to effect a change of opinion in the mind of one who had & ii tended so much to ' the subject previously to discussing it wi ^ R me . 1 hope , at least , to bt bxi cused for this regret by most rea > ders , when it is recollected that

    my second letter related almdH entirely to the sufficiency of the historical evidence for those matters of fact , which are essential to the truth of Christianity : NoW if what I there , urged , were Hot

    sufficient to convince the mind 6 t " A Churchman , " either he nittefc have attended to some m 6 re i * drt *« vincing evidence , ' or he tmisi consider Christianity as desfitXite of satisfactory proof . If the forhii er be the case , he would do w ^ lt )

    to state those arguments 4 b 9 r 6 public , which have operateld- t t 5 ti his own conviction , eitheKinf jj ^ u # Repository , Mr . Editor , 6 V nibre at large in a separate publication ^ But if the latter be the base , ifhri do really consider thd Ghristfati religion as destitute of sufficient

    foundation , whaj : £ an it $ g & itf whether beisubscrtbe hites£ ] f ^ j ^ Churchman / ' or , a < J ? sse ! tffer ?» siti 6 ^ if relig-fon be profess ^! ' Vith ^ Wy other view than from a regard to

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1809, page 727, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1707/page/21/