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usual marks of a quotation , — " nor quarrel with the great and substantial good which their native land offers to them in
common with all 3 ier other children , because she adds to it a trifling inconvenience , and has given them a slight affront , V Not having seen the Memoirs alluded to 'I
am at a loss to . discover , whether this quotation is taken from them , and is to be considered as the sentiment of the excellent man lately deceased , or that of his ingenious biographer . I wish to have this
point clearly ascertained ; for certainly the Dissenters in Yorkshire , it not the whole body of them throughout the nation , are considerably interested in the result . It is yet well remembered in-Leeds , Wakefield , and other
populous towns , in the West lliding of the County of York , abounding with Dissenters , what great pains Mr . W . took to unite the three denominations , and to
urge them to act with that zraT , perseverance and unanimity , for which they were so eminently distinguished , during the late ever-/ ncmorablc struggle to obtain a repeal of the Test Laws , By his
own suggestion chiefly , the first general meeting assembled at Nakefleld ,- when being unanimously solicited , he accepted the office of Secretary ; thus voluntarily subjecting himself to the trouble , and ' fatigue , of an extensive correspondence , and drawing up the various papers , which were presented to the committees and gonernl meetings . He also
employed himself in collecting all the books or tracts that could be "jet with on the subject of the lest Laws , one of which , entnkcl " j \ Brief Enquiry con-
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cerning the Dignity of the Ordinance of the Lord ' s Supper , &c . &c . '' written by a member of the Church of England , first published , in 1732 , he caused
to be reprinted at his own expence * having prefixed to it a dedication 4 to the Rev . the Vicax , and Clergy , of the Parish of Leeds ^* seriously reminding them of their obvious and important duty , in
his usual elegant and manly style . i 4 If ( says he ) it be incuoibent upon the disciples of Christ to obey all his injunctions , Ft must be of equal importance that none of his institutions be
applied to purjwses that are prejudicial or foreign to their original design . Whatever l > e the issue of the present application of the protestant Dissenters
for the recovery of what they deem their civil rights , and which they are confident is perfectl y consistent with the safety of the Established Church , it surely cannot be a matter of indifference to
any who believe the divine authority of the New Testament , whether the ordinance of the Lord ' s Supper be employed as an engine of state policy ; or whether it be confined to its primitive use , be celebrated solely as a solemn memorial of the death
of Christ , and be received with a single view to spiritual improve * ment . This is the professed object of the enquiry which is now respectfully offered to your con * si derail on . "
Now i , s it even possible to sup- * pose that a man of Mr . W . ' s hig h , character , would super so material an interruption of hi *> important professional studies , or dis * turb his general tranquillity , by the varied exertions he made to
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1809, page 369, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1738/page/15/
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