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    disturbed by , any of the trifling concerns of this world , he 1 ^ pe rfectly correct ; but if he means to assert ttoat no righteous jii , an ever plays cards , he says what is not true , and it remains ? for him to prove that it is so . I would not be understood by / any thing which I have written in this letter , to stand forward as the unqualified champion of " all games of hazard : many of them are dangerous in ariy

    cfegiiee 3 all , when they are carried to excess . What I would be thought to ni ^ au is this ; that cards in proper hands are productiye o £ innocent amusement , and that if they are not imprdper fqr other persons , they cannot be improper for a dissenting

    minister . If P * Q / wishes to see this question completely set at re&t ^ . let him read a short pam phlet published by a Layman ^ in reply to a sermon of . thfe Rev . G . Burder ' s , on the lawfulness of public amusements ,: he will there find those sentiments fully stjiied , whibh I have endeavoured to urge in the liiriited cbrri * pass of a letter . I remain * with every wish for the success of tlj ^ Repository , your s ^ &c . Norwich . Nov . 12 , 18 O 6 * No Bigot *

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    REMAkKS ON THE WRITINGS OF MR . EVA&SOK , *; To the Editor o f the Monthly Repository . Ivf my last I presented to your readers a fair and impartial statement of Mr . Evanson ' s sentiments respecting tbje Christian : sabbath and public worship ; I now proceed to pyesent t ^ cm- with his 9 ^ ntwiients respecting the authenticit y of" the < Jiiri $ tian Scriptures ^ as contained in the New Testament . * Your correspondent J « . 3 * iti his reply to ' my first letter ,

    rernarks as follows : cc The second very extraordinary charge is , * That . Mr . Evamson lias been long engaged in a project which laj ; . near his heart , by an open attack on the whole of theChristiah Scriptures ^ , to set asidfc the belief of them in a raanneE much more becbming an open infidel' than a professed Christiati / > J ¦ 'J-. S . adds- —* That any one who has ever read the wntings of Mr . Evanson could have been hardy pnough to

    in t ake this indecent , this unfounded accusation * would scarcely h ^ ve been expected by any person acquainted with him or his writings ; " after which follows the insinuation , noticed in my la $ U that in affirming I ; had read the first edition of fyLr * . Evan-* pp £ s :- ' * Dissonaiice ^ " I had been guilty of wilful falsehood * * 3 L "] beg leave r Sir , to remark , that a writer who takes such * Monthly Repository for July > p . 36 j *

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    ^ 50 Remarks on the Waitings "Mr - Evanso n *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1806, page 650, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1731/page/34/