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tract of meadow land adjoining thereto , besides 400 acres rftofe upon the same branch , about three miles farther up ; To view this tract , I went with him , and found betwixt 60 and 70 acres next to the river in a good state of cultivation , with a house and other buildings upon it . The 14 th of April , 1796 , arriving , my year expired * I took . a house in the town , bought me a cow , two pigs , and a few fowls ; and felt pleased at finding myself once more at liberty . About this time Dr . Priestley returned from Philadelphia and was received with much pleasure by his friends and the town in general , and resumed , as usual , his lectures at his eldest
son s . He informed me he had enjoyed the use of Mr . Winchester's chapel while at Philadelphia , and considered that gentleman to possess a liberal mind and good natural parts , though he had not enjoyed the advantages arising from an enlarged system of education . The mention of this gentleman ' s name introduced some remarks upon the doctrine of Universal
Restoration , for which he had undergone some degree of per secution ; and I told him I had heard a respectable person in London say , that his treatise on that subject was thought but little of by men of intelligence and learning . He said that was false , for the fact was just the reverse ; and as to the work , it was well received . He himself did not believe it to be a
doctrine taught in the Bible ( neither was the Resurrection in the Old Testament , though yet believed ) ; but it corresponded wiih those general declarations which God had made concerning himself—that his tender mercies are over all his works , and that he keepeth not his anger for ever , because he cielighteth in mercv .
Our frequent intercourse with the Doctor and his family occasioned Mrs . Priestley to contract a great partiality for ray wife , which led her to seek her help whenever it was possible . My assistance they much requested to manage their garden ; so that we were both of us so often with them as to occasion an entire neglect of our own affairs at home . Thus circumstanced , the old lady wished to buy all our incumbrances , and have us altogether , which would have taken place , had not
Providence otherwise disposed things . At times , when I was employed in the garden , the Doctor would give nie ' a little assistance , ask me for instruction , and say he would be ** the under-gardener /'' As we were one day thus employed , I said , < c Doctor , the Bible would appear to be the most contradictory book in the world , from the contrariety of the opinions that are dravifn from it !"— << True , " , he said J € i and yet it is a plain book : but if men will not use the faculty of reason in understaading , it , as they do when reading other
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506 Memoirs of Dr . Priestley .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1806, page 506, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1729/page/2/
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