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seem to espouse in your Notes ; to obyiate the objeclrcms of the Deists against Christianity , drawn from such absurd doe *? trkies ; fo be clear and explicit in professing your faith , \ vheft you undertake in so solemn and public a manner to profess it ; and also to satisfy your mistaken brethren , and to sfafew wherein the injury lieth which needeth forgiveness , and Avhich
you have the grace so kindly to dispense even before ' tis asked . 1 acknowledge also , that a certificate of your honesty , signed by Dr . 'Btoddfidge , ought to have its weight with hie ' ; though
I cannot say it would be altogether so satisfactory as removing all the grounds for suspecting the least degree ar shadow of dishonesty . Nor would a confession of fait h be fully [ able ] 'to content , « nless expressed less ambiguously than that you have made public , and made under stronger bonds to openness , plainness , and sincerity , than I can pretend to bring you under .
I apprehend that in sect . 2 . you do not pretetrd to be cer ~ famty mf&nned what are my ittfratd sentiment ^ but w hat has hz ^ my ^ pressed inte rp retat ion vfyour sile n ce . Mt > w I dstrfc feay-j there i $ tso mm who ever heard me ft ** gntioti y&trr sitencfc as an acknowledgvient of the justice of my charge against
iftnt ; t * r who ever heard tne make atty other remark on it * except repeating what a friend and brother of yftut * & d £ dlar ® d > ** thst fee believed you never \ frcmld answer it , " and adding £ fc& ^ easom he gave of his fa ith ^ which it witl not foe itopated to " i *^ as actii ^^ to suppress : so that I may be very positive tliis ptitt of your certain information h ^ ts n <) fonndatbn , I am last ecin ^ ioii ^ © f beibg at any time ^ i veh to boa&t and to triti ri ^ ph >
inttch less on so equivocal an occasion , and ought to blulfh it I had ti ^ be tter gmimd for what you call my churg ^ tfeaft ymir 7 Mt&i %$ ® m * ingit . But whatyoti chiefly insist on , Sir r a « \ vhat a « [ has ] excited you t © this answer , is my grafting copies of my ktter ^ and the md&stiy of my friends in propngating it far and iN 2 af , upoti which you expostulate with me copiously and family m vour
third jmtagtaph , No ^ I confess freely , that at the request of two of my brethren at a distance , I sent to each of tfctefh a copy , not seeing atsy tfnitig at that titue crir « iina ] in either their request ^ or in tiny compliance £ for had I , Sir , addressed y 6 ( 8 from the press in thfc s&ttie unanner , where had been the
injustice orunkindnessiof it , wheti jt was occasioned by what Mvm ofifered to public view by yourself ? Had not every min $ ' , right to make such remarks , and to inake them public too > If they fktej'ustj they tnay jserv ^ a public good , &nd prevent erf or on liiaay souls , as well as be useful to yourself ; and if they are
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4 OS SexK S . Bvurne and Dr . Doddridge :
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1806, page 408, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1727/page/16/
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