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RELIGIOUS, LITERARY, AND POLITICORELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
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Jiis violent and even furious opposition to whatever bore the aspect of reform . His controversy "with Dr . Priestley is ¦ well known . Whoever had the advantage in point of learning , it will not be denied that Dr . Priestley had the better of the argument . Notwithstanding the
Bishop ' s intemperate orthodoxy , there were not wanting some who doubted whether he were a believer . We presume not to decide this point ; and if he were in his conduct temperate , merciful , just * it is of less consequence that it should be decided . His political principles we always abhorred during his life , and shall not disguise or palliate , now
that he is no more . It may be useful to remember that an English prelate was hardy enough to make the declaration , at the close of the 18 th century , that •* the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey' them ! " If his friends continue to approve this maxim , let them , write it on his tomb-stone * — -
lie 'was' respectable as a senatorial orator , and at one period took a part in every great debate in the House of
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RELIGIOUS . UNITARIAN FUND . —The second General Half-yearly Meeting of this Society will be holden in the Unitarian Chapel , Parliament-court , Bishopsgate , on Wednesday , November the 26 th , when a Sermon will be preached on the occasion by the Rev . Joshua Toulmin , D . D . of Birmingham , and a Collection made on behalf of the Fund . Public
service will begin a . t 11 o ' clock . The business of the Society will be transacted after service . Th £ Subscribers and Friends to the Unitarian Fund will dine together , after the service , on an economical plan , at the King ' s Head Tavern , Poultry .
HIGHGATE The Presbyterian Chapel at this place , which has been for dome time * shut up , waa re-opened for public worship , under the auspices of the Unitarian Fund , on Sunday , Sept . £ & , when a sermon was preached by the Rev . Robert Aspland , on the " Conversion of the Samaritans . " It has been tupplicd since by the ministers in con *
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JLord * . His speeches made no light tiKfcl pressioTi upon the country . He itfas , to Jtis honour be it recorded , a bitter eriemy 5 to the Slave-trade , and in one of the last effusions of his Parliameistary elo ^
quence * reprobated it m glowing &fcd indignant terms . Happy should we have been if in all Ais public conduct \ v& could have held him . equally priaise- * worthy ! Thinking , however , of that * conduct as we do , we could not have
written otherwise than we have done * We war not with the dead ; but a true character of such a man as Bishop Hors ley is instructive to the living . That with his principles and character , he should have obtained successive valuable preferments , is a characteristic feature in the reign of George the Third .
In his 79 th year , the Rev . THOMAS MAIN , who had been Dissenting Minister of the parish of Drumgoolail fot fiftyrseven years . He was one of the oldest of the Seceding body of Presby * terian clergy in Ireland . Wheft a stu » dent , he bore arms in the Royal army * as a volunteer , at the battle of Falkirk ^
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nexion with the Fund , viz . Messrs . Vicf * ler , Eaton , Nightingale , and Marsom . The UNITARIAN MINISTERS of Nottinghamshire and the Southern part of Derbyshire , assembled on the istof September at Duffield , in order to settle the Rev . Evan Jones as one of the Pastors of that district . The morning-service was introduced by the Rev . JVTr ,
Bull of Mansfield , who delivered a prayer highly appropr iate to the ocda ^ sion , The Rev . Mr . Tayler , of Nottingham , preached a most excellent sermon , with great power , on zeal ; which , Jvtan according to knowledge , and directed to a proper object , was proved to be infinitely . more laudable than the |> ui > Stiit of wealth , power , or fame . The text was taken from Romans x . 2 . For
I bear them record , tkat they have a zeal of God , but not according" to knowledge /* The evening service , which begantfdt seven o ' clock , was opened by the Rev * Mr . Tayler ; and the Rev . Mr . Bull delivered , " with energy , an admirable fetfririon on the duties of a minister and hi *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1806, page 550, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1729/page/46/
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