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he a Calvinisi and a Trinitarian , that on this account , some individuals , ( Mr . Charles Mander is very angry at my having ventured to call them " zealots , " ) were dissatisfied with his ministry . One of the most active of these individuals , was toy correspondent , Mr .. John Mander . No doubt , Us " worthy
father-in-law Mr Charles Hunter" was also in the nurfibeiv * In Mr . Cole ' s reputed heresy will be found , I imagine , the true reason for Mr . Hunter ' s declining to leave a legacy to the
Meeting-house , in JohnVstrcet ; and for his making a bequest * towards paying the debt of the Temple-street Chapel / ' the Meetinghouse to which the Calvinistic part of Mr . Cole ' s congregation eventually united themselves .
M r * Griffiths , when he preached as a * candidate at Wolverhampton ' , spent nearly four weeks at Mr . Marshall ' s house ; and Mr . Marshall ' s name stands first in the invitation to Mr .
Griffiths . Mr . Marshall furnished no pr & of of his " orthodoxy" by leaving a " legacy to Temple-street Chapel ! " nor can it , for a single moment , be questioned that his money was applied in exact conformity to his wishes .
Of Mr . Hill ' s religious sentiments , I know but little ; for I have not , I must confess , the sagacity to see that any inference , on that score , can be drawn from the circumstance ( upon which Mr . John Mander lays so ludicrous a stress , ) of his having been " a Scotchman . " I have heard from " those who were old enough at the time to have a distinct remembrance of
* •* X well remember roy worthy Father-in-law , Mr . Charles Hunter , mentiontng this" CMr , Marshall's and Mr . Hill ' s having each given «^ 20 a ) " ito me , and thai they wished him to do the same , but lie declined it , saying , He would harfc the controul of his own money daring his life , Imt would leave a legacy for the ame purpose . This he probably did , but the unhappy business respecting Mr » Jameson occasioned biro ( if done ) to alter it . He afterwards left a legacy towards paying the debt of Temp ? e-street Chapel , if not paid before hi * deatb , but it hav * Ing been paid previous to that event , the legacy lapsed . "
Mr . John Mandci ' ft Letter to me , Appendix , p » 8 T-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 22, 1819, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1710/page/7/
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