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not one of them who thints Mr * Farmer ' s plan right , can ptiblicfy sSy so ! How uncomfortable must a situation there be , if they are so tefribly afraid of one another ! It is like living near the * Inquisition . I bJess God that we breathe a freer air in the country , in this as well as many other respects */'
He has iu two of his Letters pronounced a hi gh , and we Iiave no doubt sincere , panegyric on Air . Lindsey . cc I am exceedingly glad to hear , that Mr . Lindsey * s chapel was so well filled , especially in the summer season , when the London congregations are generally thin . I have had two or three letters from
that "worthy and excellent man , whom I much esteem , and hold in the same veneration as I should have done one of the ejected and si- * ienced Ministers a century ago . I have nothing to do with his particular sentimlAits ; but his good sense , learning , piety , integrity , and desire to do good , demand the esteem and affection or every consistent Christian , especially every consistent Dissenter . Mr . J 3 the Baptist
Minister of W , has sent me a tract which hewrbte against " Lindsey * s Apology , ' which is a weak and ill-natured performance .. But some people who have no qualification for it , love to write against a man of an established character and great credit , as they think it doth them honour among their own party to attack a champion of the opposite party . Is it likely that any of his congregation should be corrupted by Mr . Lindsey ' s book : I wish he had more of that confessor ' s spirit ., and then he may be as orthodox as he pleases f . " " Were I to publish an account of ejected and silenced Ministers , I should be strongly tempted to insert Mr . Lindsey In the list ( which lie mentions with so much veneration ^) if I brou ght him in by head and shoulders . He certainly deserves as much respect and honour as any one of them , for the part he has acted . Perhaps few of them exceeded liim in learning or piety . I venerate him as I would any of your confessors . As to his particular sentiments , they are nothing to me , any more than Baxter ' s , or Tombes s , or John Goodwin ' s , Src . An ho *
nest , pious man who makes such a sacrifice to truth and conscience , as he has done , is a glorious character , and deserves the respect , esteem , and veneration of every true Christian , whatever his particular sentiments may be > and this I maintain , let your neighbour ( who ought to be excommunicated ) say what he pleases . Let him read and meditate on Neh . ii . 1 O . and blush if he can II . "
Mr . Orton was a great , but not a general reader : his judg-JEncnt on books is 5 we presume to think , often incorrect : he seems ' not to have liked or understood controversial theology He calls Dr . Taylor ( we hope not in derision ) a Socinian § , and decides against the doctrine of necessity by an appeal to iC his own -feel in us ** . " Unlike the Puritans , whom in religion he
tnuch resembled , he possessed no ardent love of civil liberty ; at least the sentiment was nearly extinct in his bosom before he tr * Vol . i . p . 83 . f Vol . i . p . 1 . 58 . \ Page ao 8 of his Apology , 2-d edition . j | Letter to Mr . Palmer , vol . ii . p . 159 , § Vol . i . p . it 4 i ** Vol . ii . p . 02 , 93 .
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304 Orion's Letters .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1806, page 304, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1725/page/24/
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