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Nd . XXXtir . One tody of getting to Heaven enough . The following anecdote , well fcnown to be true , occurs iti Dunsford ' s * History of Tivcrton . The Gleaner has some recollection of
iti being quoted by Southey , in his Spaniard in England , ** without any acknowledgment of the source whence it is derived ; " Irj the year 175 a ? the mayor of TJverton , in company , asked a gentleman wild sat he ' ai- him , and who gave me this informatfbh , what he tftotfgfit of the
MetbodecH and their religion , / an ^ whether ho < JI 4 pot think it ; right £ ^ at tf * e , y should j ? e driven out otthc , iown , or be obliged to siiiit ujS preaenfri ^ t heir norisbnsical staff here ?— " I think' Mr . IVTafor you had Better follow the counsel of Gamaliel to the Jews , and leave / them
and their religion to themselves . ' -j——« Afhaf ! do you think so Sir ? Do' you consider 5 ir what little reason there is for any new religion in Tiverto « ? Another way of going to . heaven when there are now so maay ? Yoij know Sir there is the old church an
that ' s one religion ; then there is parson Kiddell ' s , at ? the * Pitt triccting , parson Westcott ^ s in Peter-Street , and old ' parson Terry ' s in Newport-street . Four ways of going to heaven already ; and if they won ' t go By dnd or other of these ways ^ by G— they sha ' n't go to heaven a ^ all herefron ^ , whilst I am mayor of Tiverton . "
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Nd . XXXIV . A Whig . u What is a y \ hig ~? is a question t > jot unfrequently put , some * tinjesfor the ^ afc e * 6 f iiibri ^ iiction , hut 6 ft *? nt > r x& cotiVey'a satcasm . lhe . cjuesttdri may be aiiswerod , tod a tFUb WHig ^ defined , in the
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words of Mr . Cqfwen * s Address to the Electors of Carlisle , in the year 1806 : —** He ehtertains a constitutional jealotisy of the executive government ; his eye is steadily fixed upon ministers , &iid his ear turned to the people . ''
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No . XXXV . Lord Bacon s Christian Para * duxes . Wacs lord Bacon in earnest in deliveririg liis well known Christian Paradoxes as certain truths ;
Bolingbroke , who appears to have studied him deeply , says that he was not . ( Works , Vol . V . p . 365 . ) Yet wh y not ? The wisest of men have been sincere believers in T&nsubstantiation , which is not less absurd and ridiculous than
the " "Trinity . Calvin was an able reasoner ; Swederiborg was a philosopher ' ; Bishop Horseley defended tVe actual descent of Christ into hell ; and sortie eminent mathematicians of the present day are said to be Methodists .
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No . XXXVI . The uoYst kind of Blaiphewf . When Moliere ' s . * fartuffe was acted ? he was generally supposed tot have t ^ iken meas u re of the archbishop of Parie for one of his
principal characters . 1 he prelate being apprised of tfyis ? had interest enough with the king to procure the prohibition of the play , though at that very time the ItaHan comedians were every day uttering the most gross blaophejmes and
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• • * ¦ j # LEANINGS , OH < $ EI * ECTION ^ AND REFIifiCfrONS MADE I 5 f A COURSE OF GENERAL READING . ;
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* Mr- Bunsford'i death was mtr&y noticed jin the M . I ^ epojjitorjr fcrr Vtef W 07 , ^ age 51 79 . A jmemoir of him could not fail of befog interesting 5 perhaps 00 one is better able to supply it than the Rev . T . JD . of Hampshire .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1809, page 335, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1737/page/33/
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