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    rouse his brethren into action for the recovery oi their privileges ; , if , after all , Fk was clearly con-* vinod , slunild they attain their object , the result woul < J be merely thr removal of a " trifling incon-¦ vcni « nee , * ' or " slight affr nt } So iai indeed it is impossible that

    Mr . YY \ should in any degree law deviated from his piokssed opinions , that lie lived to h . raent the melancholy •¦ effects arising from that i [ liberality and abuse © f a solemn ordinance" which

    ie so assiduously sought to relaove . lit » lived to see ill * Diss < nters brought to the verge oi persecution , and his much ho-¦ Koureti predecessor , driven into exile by deeds only suited to the . darkest ages , yet iasii < _ uU d by

    the bigottifdy bui modern , cry oi distinctions no : viien recognized in t \\ e New Testament . After all it is probnbio th «* following anecdote , communicated

    by a friend , may explain the , * ' hupe" ( that JVir . W . i * -aid to have expressed , ) " that \ He protestant . Dissr » Hcrs will never again Tepeat their request for a repeal of the Test Laws . "

    The iriend , on whose correctness I can rely , was in the habit of attending most , if not , all the meetings alluded to in the West Kidini ^ and had long been inti - mately acquainted with Mr , VV . Atoxic of these meetings held at

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    Wakefield , he well ren-iembeit ex * pressing his surprize that so iuucfi iliiberaliry and opposition to the i ^ pe&l had been manifested by the Clergy . Mr . W . assenting to the

    truth ot this remark , added , n , at lamenting as he did the narrow * ness of the major pait of the CU-rgy , yet he had no idea they would have exhibited so hiuch intolerance ; and concluded by e * prcsung his entire approbation of the vvibh my frit nd had just expressed , *¦<• that while this intolerant spirit continued , the Dissont < T *> would never renew their request , as well sivrn the little

    iiopt * ot success , its iiuni the unequal contest betwctn the pur . ty and eijuity of . primitive Chris * tianity and the mere siciilar ideas of an Established Priest * hood : *

    From hence it will be evident , that the mciive ior this t 4 wish , ' ' was a dignified resentment at the uixexpi'Ctc-d oppositi < n met with on this occasion / and tiat the . timid resignation ot a quts * tiorr , more congenial inde < d to the character of a mode rn alarm .

    ist than to that manly and steady adherence to religious liberty and truth , your reviewer so jusrly ascribes to the truly lamented subject ot our enquiries . Yours , &c . MEUCATOR .

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    SVO Mr . foneti on- 'Jbis- **' Jttifct-i&iiohs ***

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    To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . ?

    sir , In page 316 of tny Illn&trationsy occurs the following remark— ** For him hath God the I atlicx sealed ; rather as Mr .

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    Wakcfield renders" the clause ? For to him . hath the Father , even Godj set his seal . ' " Tbi * last clause ( says the late excellent Mr , Kenrick ) refers to tbQ

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    MR . JONES , ON HIS " ILLUSTRATIONS . ' *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1809, page 370, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1738/page/16/