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    N orfolk , and to Palgfave in Suffolk : from home six days , travelled r 60 miles , preached twice .- — August . A journey in Cambrid geshire ; from home 5 days , travelled 60 miles , preached twice . — is / iUmber , October nnd November ¦ . Jourr * v into Kent and Sussex : from home

    » 5 days , travelled 500 miles , preached ^ 4 . times , and attended many meetings of conference : —1809 . Feb . and JXdarch * Tourney to Boston , Lincoln , Thorne : 13 d its vicinity , to York and Leicester ; from home za days , travelled 300 -miles ,

    preached 13 times . ;—March . Journey into Norfolk ; from bogge ,. 5 &&Ysy travelled 80 miles , preac « l |§ f twice . — April . Journey * in LincoThshir ^ , as far as Boston ; from home 4 days 3 tM . veiled 60 miles , preached once . — April . Journey to the North Marshes in Lincolnshire , and ta Hull ; from

    home 20 days , travelled 340 miles , pleached 15 times . —To' the above are ta be added , fourrjournies in the south of Lincolnshire ; 100 miles , ia days , seven sermons . —In all , since the last anniversary , Mr . Wright has travelled in the service of the society more than 1700

    miles * been from home 140 days , " and preached S 4 sermons . ' In this computation , a preaching journe ; j ^ to Norwich is not reckoned , as it was undertaken at the invitation and charge of the congregation assembling in the Octagon chapel .

    Mr . Wri ght givejs the following ao count of the society raised ) by his means , -t Thorne , in Yorkshire . ' f < The con-Station kept increasing- each time , and the hearers were remarkably attentive . J v / * s much engaged-in conversation ' ' army- the time I was at Thorne . There

    1 ' one man An particular with whom I ; highly gratified ; he is a young man . literate , by trade a sm , ith ; he has nJf j uended above a year . The progress ^ has made in the knowledge of the rij ' cures during that time is surprising , '^ ien his disadvantages are considered . ; - ' - ' has to work hard alLday to support " ^ j ^ niHy , yet he reads and thinks iriuch . The questions he asks , and he iwnll of them , are very pertinent He ^^ 'i ine one question , which I found ; ¦ anst'n entirel y from his own reflec-L and which I mention as a sp ' eci-: - :: » ot his inquiries ; it was , * Whether Jsus was ever called the only begotten jVn of God , prior to his exaltation ; un-^ V' » refe rence to that event / lie had \ w ^ n down a long list of passages of

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    scripture , on each of which he required my thoughts . He is a man of good character and amiable spirit . I hope in time , if he go on , he will become capa- , ble of public usefulness among his poor brethren . He has got the Improved Version , and is reading it with avidity . A few people at Thorne meet together , amongst themselves , to worship the One God . Tfrev have had some difficulties / .

    siBLce I saw them before ; but are now in peace . I carried a few books which they had not before amongst them . " In his tour in Kent , in the month of October , Mr . Wright spent one Sunday at Canterbury , thus described in his journal . — tl Sunday the 16 th , preached at Canterbury , Just before I entered the pulpit in the jifterrioon , I received a letter , of which the following is a

    copy . REV . SIR , It is' very likely you will be attended this : afternoon by several persons Who have lately become converts to the Unitariajji faith ,. in consequence of having met ; with , and perused your very sensible and well-written treatise on the

    satisfactionist scheme , as well as your litile but satisfactory tract on the humanity oP Christ- Those converts to rational Christianity , expect to hear from you what they are to think of Christ , whether a man or a god , or a being of a middle nature . They are come , sir .

    fiilly expecting trait you will say something on tho ™ he ? idi that shall , in perfect conformity with your valuable writings on the same subjects , be immediately to the purpose ; by an attention to which , sir-i you'll much oblige Yours very respectfully , * CI . ER 1

    CUSIt so happened , that the discourse I had prepared to deliver , was such as the above letter called for . I preached from * This is my beloved Son , in whom I am well pleased , hear ye him . * After

    the introduction , I first showed how the person of Christ , as literally and truly a man , was identified , by the voice from heaven at his baptism , the voice from the excellent glory in the text , by his d ^ ath , burial , and resurrection , and

    indeed by the whole gospel history . Nckc considered his character . lie i * the Son of God . Not literally or' by nature , us one man is the son of another , as this would involve the grossest absurdity ; but by office , &c . 1 . As , he is the Messiah ; the messenger t > £ God u \ men .

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    Intelligence . —Fifth Report of Vie Unitarian Tand . 4 £ 5

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1809, page 465, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1739/page/51/