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I would observe before I conclude , . that in order to give its due weight to' the preceding argument we should remember ^ that the occasion , on which our Lord instituted the rite we are met to celebrate , was but one of several , on which a striking calmness and composure appeared in his
manner of alluding to or plainly mentioning his sufferings and death , though doubtless it ought to be regarded as the principal one ^ since it preceded so short a time the last dreadful scene , through which he was destined to pass . I therefore notice its being but one ^ because the circumstance of his
having before spoken at different times with reference to the same subject , with like apparent tran-
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quility of mind , must add force to the argument just laid before you ; and I call it the principal one ^
because it was that occasion ^ on which he gave a visible proof ( as far as external appearance could do it ) of his possessing to the last an inward consciousness of
having been honoured with a divine commission and of having acted in the execution of it with strict fidelity to God and man , and also of his being fully convinced , that his cause must be the cause of
the Almighty , and that notwithstanding existing appearances unfavourable to the hope of its success , it would prosper under his patronage in spite of all opposition , J . BRETLAND .
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Original Letter of liishop Uorscley ^ s . 131
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ORIGINAL LETTER OF BISHOP HORSELEY ^ S .
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The politico-pastoral letter of Dr . Evans , a London Dissenting minister , in the Say Papers , in our last , No . V . p . 64 . has procured us from a friend the autograph of an original letter of the Jate Bishop llorseley ' s , which
mav be considered as a counter-• j part to it . They who approve of the letter of the Nonconformist
Divine , ciinnot object to lhat of the orthodox Bishop , This interference of the then Bishop of
St . David ' s at an election , and , if the memory of the writer fails him not , this identical letter , is somewhere referred to and descanted on by Dr . Priestley * " Reverend Sir , Sir Wrn . Man sell , has declared bimactf a candidate to rejprcseat the bewough
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of Caermartben ia the next parliament * I cannot refrain from declaring- that he has my heartiest good wishes . Mr . Phillips , the present member , has received the thanks of the Dissenter ^ for the
part he * ook in the late attempt to overthrow our ecclesiastical constitution by the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts . By this it is easy to guess what part he is likely to take in any future attempt for the same purpose .
I hope that I shall not have the mortification to find a single clergyman in my diocese , who will be so false to his T > wn character and his duty to the established church , as to give his vote to any man who ha 3 discovered si ^ ch
principles . 1 am Rev . Sir , Your aiTectionate brother , and faithful servant , SAMUEL St . DAVID'S , Abcrguilly , August % 4 tht 1789 ?' Tq the Rc * i' ¦!¦¦ ¦ ¦ ' '
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1809, page 131, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1734/page/11/
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