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Dr . Priestley told me he once heard him preach d sefcriidit , in London , oh the Calvin istic idea of justification * and he was indeed truly charming . The Sprightliness of his manner , and 4 he delightful eloquence of his tongue * fascinated every eye > and touched every heart ; But how altered-s-rhow impaired in strength
and brilliancy those fine powers he once possessed in that last effort of his public life at Birmingham ! Even while his feet trod on the grave that was to enclose him , some feiw rays of his former vivacity played around him ; and some traits of that vanity that had attended him through life manifested themselves in his last discourse , in which he treated the doctrine of
the Trinity with ridicule bordering on burlesque ; But , as Dr . Priestley added , he was literally emptied , and an almost com * plete exhaustion of his faculties too plainly manifested : but even then ^ in private company , and at certain intervals , his conversation was peculiarly delightful . " Oh ! that every church might possess a pastor like Robinson ! " was Dr . Priestley ' s most sincere and hearty prayer .
About this time Dr . Priestley learnt 1 had intentions of rer turning to England ^ and coming to me , in the garden ^ one ck y * said- ^ - " So , I hear you are for going back to England . " I told him I was under art engagement so to do . Affected at the
information , he replied— " Stop with us : you shall never want while we have bread , and things may be so ordered by Providence that tve tnay all return to England together , for I would tiot have left it if I might have stayed . . 'OBut however , " he continued , * obey the dictates of your mind : but I conceive
that more calamities are yet to fall on Europe . " I replied th&t they appeared to me to be of such a nature , that even America might taste them . c « Why , true / ' he said , it may ; but England is commercial , and if she lose her trade , you then will have to follow it . "
Here I must pause , and am $ till yoii receive my next , Melbourne , near Derby * v , „ * -r * . ' ^ Q >^ i . lonr Yours , , Bakewell . Acpi * \) 1806 * ¦ ¦ i
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BRIEF ACCOUNT OF SERVETUS . [ Concluded from page 45 ^ -3 ArrEfe Servetus had made his escape from Vienne ^ he lay concealed for some time , nobody knows where . In the mean
time he resolved to retire to Naples , and practise physic among his countrymen who were settled in that city , one of whom was John Valdesii Si , or Vaklesso , then secretary to the king of Naples , and also a Baptist and Unitarian . He chose to go by way of Geneva , where he arrived on foot , having left off riding , at thtf
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& > S Memoirs of Dr . Priestley .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1806, page 508, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1729/page/4/
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