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    the supposed author at least ; and any communication ill reptf to this , as it would be highly gratifying to me , and I doubf not to many others , might also excite inquiries upon the sub - * ject which would throw light upon this part of theological biography . Episcopus ,

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    A PROPOSAL . STRICTURES UPON TWELFTH-BAY CEREMONIES AT COURT . To the Editor of the Alonihli / Repository . SIR , I am a Christian of an order which rs now nearly extinct , and which I feared was wholly so until I saw your Prospectus , which raises my hopes , that you and your friends are , like myself , old-fashioned Protestants . I originally left the church of England for the same reason that she left the church of Rome ,

    namety , to avoid the folly and guilt of superstition . The party of Dissenters to whom I first applied , took me in with that eagerness with which they are known to welcome converts from the church ; and for a little time my situation among them was tolerably easy . I was too much occupied with contemplating the inconveniences I had forsaken to perceive those which I had embraced ; and my spiritual hosts charitably accounted for the peculiarities of my behaviour from my Babylonish education , and generously hoped that I should be in . due time disciplined into form and order . I however soon opened my eyes , and they let loose their tongues ; I perceived , or thought 1 perce ' rved among them the cloven foot of religious domination ; I was alarmed ; I protested \ I pleaded—they were deaf—I would be heard—they attempted alternately to cajole and threaten me—but all in vain ; nothing could divert me from my purpose ; I had left the communion of my fathers and friends in search of liberty , and I would not rest till I had

    found it . The result was , that they pronounced me to be disaffected to the peculiar doctrines of the Gospel , and I pronounced them to be ignorant of the first elements of the Gospel ; to wit , the duty of free inquiry and the right of private judgment . Of course we parted- Not dispirited by the failure of my first attempt , I pushed my way into several other

    denominations , successively ; proceeding with more caution indeed , but not with less firmness ; some , for one reason or other , I voluntarily left ; from others I was , willing or nilllng , thrust ovit . I found in most of the churches with wfyich I associated , that the most indubitable and fatal heresy was neglecting or opposing the minister—the full import of that expression none

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    10 Strictures upon Twelfth-day .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1806, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1720/page/10/