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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS.
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able was the harmony of their minds , that their wills might be justly styled one and the same ; which made him often say that they were not only one flesh * but one spirit . She survived him , but how long I cannot say ; nor have I ever been able to learn whether he had any issue by this , or yet by his second marriage *
Before I close this sketch it may not not be improper to ob ^ serve , that it was Mr , Owen who supplied Dr . Calamy with the materials for his Account of the Welsh Ejected Ministers * 2 nd which has also appeared since in Mr . Palmer ' s Non-conformist * s Memorial . That account vas it relates to the Baptists , has been often objected to , as being by no means fair and
impartial , and discovering a prejudice and illiberaiity and I think I may say bigotry , very unworthy of Mr . Owen , as well as of the two other gentlemen * When the ejection of those of that denomination is related , some humiliating or unfavourable circumstance is generally introduced , as if the relator wished to lessen the person , and even the denomination itself , in the
opinion or estimation of his readers . This , I think , is a real blemish in these works * Such , however , is the infirmity of human nature in this imperfect state , that it seems no easy task , if at all attainable , even for good men to divest themselves entirely of prejudice , so as to think and speak with thoroughly unbiassed minds of those who differ from them , especially in religious matters : hence an impartial historian , however desirable is very rarely to be found * W . R «
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ORIGINAL LETTER OF STERNe ' s . To Mr . Whatley * , [ At Mr . Stratton ' s , in Lothbury ] March 25 , 176 ! . On April the 5 th , 1761 , and sure as the day comes , and as
sure as the Foundling Hospital stands , will I -, ( that is , in case 1 stand myself ) discharge my conscience of my proriiise in giving you , not a half hour ( not a poor half hour ) , for I never could preach so long without fatiguing both myself and my flock to death but I will give you a short sermon , zndfiap you in my turn : preaching ( you must know )
* For a brief account of Mr . Whatley , Treasurer of the Foundling Hospital London , ( the gentleman to whom the Original Letters of Franklin ' s , which we lately published , were addressed ) , see a Letter of Mr . Rutt ' s , prefixed to those letters , in the Monthly Repository for March . Vol . 1 . p . 136 .
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£ C 6 Original Letter of Sterfie ' s .
Miscellaneous Communications.
MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1806, page 406, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1727/page/14/
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