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before he was on board ship , but that as soon as he was he should give it an attentive reading . To all who are acquainted with Dr . Priestley ' s practice on controversial subjects it cannot but be matter of surprise that he should never have taken the least public notice of this letter , although he lived nearly nine years after his arrival in America ^ and published many other works .
This work raised some outcry against Mr . E . amongst the orthodox ^ who said it was deism in disguise , endeavouring to undermine Christianity ; and by mistake it has been said , that Mr , E . was expelled from a book society in an adjoining village , of which he was a member ; but the fact , I have the best
authority to say , was as follows : three or four of the members of this society having expressed how much they were shocked at this book , and doubted whether it was right to continue members of a society with such a man as the author , Mr . E . the moment he heard it , with his usual good temper and love of peace , said cc No member shall withdraw from the society on
my account , " and immediately withdrew himself . About the end of the year 1796 ^ finding himself advanced in years , having had some attacks of the gout , and thinking farming would not much longer continue aa amusement , sold his farm and removed to Beelings , in the sameneighbourhoodj a village about two miles from Woodbridge . In the autumn of 1798 , having been a good deal confined by the gout , and feeling no particular attachment to continue in Suffolk , he determined the following winter to go to Bath , and if he found the air agree with him , to fix his residence in that city . Bath however not agreeing with him , he was obliged to go over to Clifton for a few weeks to recruit himself , when he determined to take a tour through the west of England , and try the softer air of Devonshire . After a journey through Cornwall he returned to Exeter , in the neighbourhood of whioh , o \\ tfafc banks of the Ex , in the pleasant village of Lympston , he met with a pretty cottage ready furnished , which he immediately took , although the term for which it could be
jet was but short . During his residence there , in December 1802 , he published a work which his friends , who knew he had the materials ready prepared for some time , had anxiously expected and often solicited him to publish . Heintitled it " Reflections
upon the State ot Religion in Christendom , &c . at the Commencement of the XIX Century of the Christian A ly& ;" ' this work Mr . E , considered the most important of all his writings , and , as the venerable Mr . Lindsey observed of his letter to Bishop Hurd on the same subject ^ it ' * deserves nothing less than the serious consideration of the whole Christian world ;* and much more consideration would have been paid to
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5 ft Rev . Edward Evanson , A . M .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 58, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/2/
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