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DR . BENSON , A WHITER IN THE U OLD WfliG . "
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K To the Hditor of the Monthly Repository . ^ 4
SIR , Chance has afforded me an opportunity , which I am very glad uf embracing , to furnish you with a name of high literary
respectability , to be added tq those other eminent names which you have given your readers , in the M . R . for April p . 200 ,, 201 , as contribu - tors to that excellent collection of papers called " the Old Wing , " &c . The writer I allude to , was
the late celebrated Dr . George Benson , who in his " Collection of Tracts , " in small Svo . 3 d edit . Las reprinted four valuable letters , which he had formerly communicated to the Editor of the Old Whig , on the subject of Calvin ' s
cruel treatment of Servetus , at Geneva . In the Advertisement prefixed to this second edition , the good Doctor informs his readers , that u this account of Calvin ' s causing Servctus to be burned for an heretic , was published some years ago , in the
weekly paper called the * c Old Whig , or Consistent Protestant ;' hut as the four papers which relate to the subject , are not in that collection of the Old Whig which has since been printed in < $ < vols . 8 vo . this second edition of ;
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DEFENCE OF T ^ IE TRINITY .
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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository *
sir , As 1 lately was pointed to in a P I > or in your work * ( p . 66 , Gj . )* signed < A Constant Reader / who seems to suppose that he has start-
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them is now published . ' These truly valuable papers are hiarked Nos . 152 , 3 , 4 * and 160 . They were signed Charistes , and were written in February , 1738- It
appears from the above-cited advertisement , that the work now alluded to was printed , in 4 to * weekl y ^ and that it was * continued much longer than the 2 vols . since reprinted would lead us to suppose ; for they conclude with No *
103 ; whereas it is plain that they extended to Np . 160 . Probably come copy of the work in its , ori ^ ginal form is yet extant , and would clear up the point , after which the hope expressed by your ; spirited correspondent , Marcus ,
would be very useful when rea- » lized . In the mean time , the pro- * posed editdrs of such a work wilj do right to consider , that the Whigs , Consistent Protestants , &c * of the present day are a , very different set of mei ) from what they were , when the vyork in qucstjoa
was first published 5 and would discourage its re-appearance nearly as much a £ our modern apostate patriots , high-church bigots , or no-popery men * Your ' s-, KUSTICUS .
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od insuperable objections to the Tri nity ^ I was desirous of giving publicity to the reply which occurred to me on reading that pru per ; and , as 1 understand your
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1809, page 941, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1740/page/17/
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