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of the following from that celebrated advocate of religious freedom , which is-likewise taken fr ^ pm the ^ General Baptist Repository /' It appears from the initials of the name and other circumstances
that it was addressed to the same genthifnan as the former . I am , Sir , yours , &c . — J . E .
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j in original X-etter . from the late Re * u JWr . Rohinsch of Cambridge ^ ' to the Rev p . * . '• " ¦ ' . ¦ ' " ' : * ChtsterUn , Dec . 24 , 1787 .
I am iBK ^^ $£ > Mr . Birley , or both , £ <^ B ^ mr '^^^ se rvsLti&ns oh Mr . Fuller ' s Tep ! y towUanthropos . ' ' I ad * mire the temper % P * Which you conduct the controversy , and I dp now most sincerel y thank you ^ pr an example so edifying . It does me" more good than all the ' arguments , hpwever just and conclusive they may be * \ w This . ' ftoWever ^ &ft iSot ihe immediate
business of this letaWjBgrhe bearer , Mr . 3 M'in tosh , is a prjriB ? pof good character , who is obliged to quit the University press , where he hath hitherto \ v * rought , because the warehouse * i ^* overstocked with goods . He comes tsfoglfcvn in search of work . Do you knowppfend Brown ? or is the printer of the St . IveS ' Ordination Sermon * a man who can help Mm ?
I only wish if you have any interest you would be so good as assist the worthy
jnan . v u . Where I % hall print I am nftable yet to determine . Here I perceiv # « can-» qt . In town how is , it possible with * out . my personal attendance ? and that cannot be ! My labours hiatve been suspended By a domestic foss ^; but 1 have resumed tnem ; an % I keep amenditA transposing , adding , curtailing , and *® on . I wish , if wishing be lawful ,
you were ,, near : I should certainly consult you on the structure of * s 6 nie parts of Rework , advantageously " to myself and perchance not disagreeably to you . Is there any history of . the English Geiberar £ a £ ti £ ts ? ' ^ O . ^ modern generals desceMed . fi ^ BiMho se at t $ ie
reform-Bttron ^ whonv the ^ pVetended orthodox persecuted , under the p ic&narrjfe 9 f Fi * eewill « i * s ? I never wilfcaH a persecutor , orthodox 1 he is heterodox in his morals , >*• .
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and I regard him as a liereticof the most pernicious . kind . , \ Do you ever visit old bcok-stails ? If you do , condescend to ' run your eye down the catalogue , and if you alight on the following books seize them for
? chyn . Herman . Pleniqr deductio hist . Mennoriite ' r / Amstel . 17 ^ 9 . Miintzers Trt , icto ; Protestation odder empietimg seine lere . betrefFende : uniid tzum aiifang yon \ dern rechten christen gl ^^ fer % nnd der tawife . quarto . . 1 5 ^ 4 . Nojflace . Muntzcrs Thorii . Behentun ^ Sec . quarto , igzs * w ^ khout the place of printing .
1 have SchynV Hist . Mennonitar ; but his Plemor Deductib I cahriot get , and it is a 'different work . The two others I fear I shallot fuKL . They are not in , the 'Jibrarj > fSome , , time , ago , I recollect , you as , ked me something about my notion of the , inno ^^ e of error . I fyer ' held what ! no ^^^ ld on that article , and I ^ v ' er professed to hold it ;
but not as some ; ' divines irjujLondon are pleased to explain it for n ^^ gkmet with a new boot the other -dayjf | j | p the way , I seldom leaVe off reading old writers now to loofc at : any new books *) in which the * author . says ?? p . 47 . * ' My hypothesis ; , Iier ^ % r ^ b at no man . is to l > lame for , what he could nipver possibly avoid . " "Ld t the whole secret of
itinocent error ! * T « e ^ dSFeFence between me and my objectors is , 4 ^ -They . detQrmine this possibility for every in < % i 4 uaj , judge for each , and hold all guilty wKo are not believers of what they pronounce to be true . I- leave this judgment to thte Lord , and bold ; , men : : guilty in regard to we , only for actions overt and
accountable to nje . Trace you this axiom , and' ybti will find it scents of human blood ; and follow the history of it , and y « u will find , the standard of the trucks the opinion of the majority ; and of course the poor anabaptists , always in a minority , are in some of the rooms of the inquisition , preparing for the fire to im
which they are condemned , not for - taoral&y , but fdr holding error . Do not , my J 8 kr TS / lv . T . imagine I am courting a dispute : Pray cion ? answer me , think what you wlljl ; for my respect for you -will force hie tso write ^ and my sense or duty to my history will forbid it : a ™ so between both i shall . be in ah uneasy case , liava fb u seiii a ;; little piece ot
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502 Original Letter of the Rev . R . 'Robinson
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1809, page 562, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1741/page/32/
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