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ANECDOTES . Lord Chancellor Thurlow . —He was at Matlock , For the benefit of the Waters , some years ago , when that wateringplace was very much infested with sharpers . As he was one evening musing in a corner of one of the public jooms , he was accosted by a stranger , who proposed to join him in cards 6 t dice . Finding his proposal objected to , he made several Others , which were all refused . " But / ' said his Lordshi p * < if you would go with me into another room , I would propose a thing that might suit better /* They accordingly retired together ; and the Chancellor , having procured pen , ink , and paper , made out his mittimus , which when the stranger per ^ ceived signed with the name of Q < Thurlow * " he stood
confounded , and endeavoured to apologise for his behaviour . Hi * Lordship , however , was inexorable , and had him committed to the county jail . Bishop Fleetwood . — " Oneofotir great divines / ' says Mr . Jonathan Richardson , in his Richardsonia , a most worthy as well as reverend bishop ( Fleetwood ) , told my father ( in my hearing ) , who was full of doubts and scruples then in matter ;* of faith , when I was a boy , that ^ where mystery began , religion ended . It makes wild work where reason does not govern the raptures which religious enthusiasm inspires ^ The sam& excellent and honest divine advised my father at that time , a $ he was depressed with doubts , to make a truc £ with texts and
fathers * and read Don Quixotte / telling him , withal , that , in his present situation of mind and weakness of spirit ,- he was riot capable of doing them justice , nor was equal to such high points of speculation . * Ah , Doctor ! ' said my father ; ' but if I ehOmd be mistaken , and put up with an erroneous / faith ?* Well / said the good divine and constant friend ( for fee- loveA
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S 2 § Anecdotes *
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By what means , or with what degree of success , it is tiere * after to make its way in the world , must be left to the zeal of its advocates and the providence of God * Of this I am con- * vinced , that until it shall become general among professing Christians , and the true spirit and great practical laws of
Christianity shall be exemplified in their lives ( i . e . until the professing Christian world shall become truly Christian , both in principle and practice ) , Christianity will not have any decisive success in the yet unbelieving world , introductory to what we must all ardently hope for—its universal influence and power . Sincerely wishing the most extensive circulation to your Verf useful Miscellany , I am , Sir , truly , your ' s ,, August \ h , IS 06 . An Observer ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1806, page 528, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1729/page/24/
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