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fessors , ainTespecially in the lives of the clergy . I dislike priests of all profession ^ ; ai > d what must Christians in general be , who can so throw off the bowels of humanity , as to rob a man of h ? # life tor one solitary offence , which he sincerely vvishts to atone for . —
To-morrow , I am to be hanged for forging a draught for fifty pounds ; strong temptation and necessity urged me to the deed : my life , in all other respects , will bear
examination ; had I lived , I hope and believe I should by restitution have atoned for this offence , but I am cut off from all hope , and am to suffer as if I was a criminal
of the most profligate and hardened description—Is this your Christianity ? " My friend and myself , allowing the justice of several of his remarks , endeavoured to Tectify his general ideas of the Christian system , and suggested those reflections which we thought
suitable to his own case , impressing upon him the solemn reflection , that he had now nothing to do with the inconsistencies or even the crimes of Christians , but to consider his own state towards
God , and the absolute necessity of his employing the few hours he had to live , in the exercise of sincere repetotance towards God , and in cordially embracing that mercy freely offered , through
Jesus Chrfst , to every one who did not obstinately reject it . —I saw the man executed the following morning ; but could not gain admittance to converse with him , as
on such a morning , when seven p ersons were ex * cttted * no one 3 tita' admitted to speak ' to the convicts , Vut'the - proper officers and We ordi ft&r y of Nfewgate . I ^ made some mquii ^ reacting tes be-
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haviour , when I was informed ? that be expressed his satisfaction with the conversation he had with us the preceding day ; that he 6 n the morning of execution for the first time desired to join the
appointed religious service , and that he went through the whole of the awful scenery to the last , with tranquillity , resignation and fortitude . B « F .
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iQ Nolo EpiscopariS * Sir , Your correspondent , A .- B . ( p . 26 , ) is correct in his quotation from the second edition of the
Protestant Dissenter ' s Catechism , concerning the use of the words no / o episcopari , by the Bishop elect . But if he will turn to the subsequent editions of that work , ( of which tfre fourteenth is just now
published ) he will find an alteration in the note referred to , which was made by the author , ( who by the way , never prefixed his name to
it ) in consequence of having learned , that the custom of thus refusing the episcopal office is abolish , ed , if it had ever been in use , which it shoulct seem to have been
from the currency of the above Latin phrase ; as also from the well-known fact , recorded in ecclesiastical history , that in the early ages of the church they who were elected to the episcopate were used to flee and hide themselves
under an awful sense of its responsibility , and that some of them were invested with it by main force . The note , as it has long stood in the catechism , is as follows : «* the ancient custom for tbt
bishop elect to say nofodpiseopan , it seems is riow disused . Various ceremonies , however , are ttilL retained [ in making a bishop ] whicfc
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1812, page 88, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1745/page/24/
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