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    correspond with that of his accusers . Let such persons recollect what this illustrious noble * man did , before they presume to arraign him for what he did not * And It may not be unbecoming

    ( hose who are so very sharpsighted in discovering a mote in the eye of another , to consider well whether there may not at the same time be a beam in their own . *' ( Mem . p . 335 . ) ' This passage has , I apprehend .

    a special reference to some remarks in your last volume ( pp . 469 and 721 , ) though , the concluding sentence is quite irrelevant to the case of Semper Eadem . For , however deficient in too many Christian duties , he has never with .

    held , when due to Unitarian consistency , the sacrifice , not indeed of , power or place , which were remote from his condition , but

    of objects more precious , connected with the most endearing intercourses of private life . I will acknowledge to the reverend ' and learnea , biographer , the height of my offending . I certainly did more than affect to believe that the late Duke of

    Grafton " was not thoroughly consistent . " The " eminent inconsistency" of that , otherwise , exerafi ^ ry uobleman appeared to me $ n indisputable fact , not the creact

    ture ofungenerous insinuations / b | iVa fair conclusion from premises established , much to my , Uprise , by a correspondence Which commenced in your work ,

    MJpder ain innocent misapprehen . $ } $ > & of ifte late Duke ' s practice % ? ' | ie became an Unitarian . § f 4 Ch a conclusion from such tire * qyptt would , . 1 am persuaded , W * ffc j ^ t co tn » ; cpr ^ jct «| iy prehension of Mr . B ^ KSham in

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    any case where his judgment was not influenced , however ; imperceptibly , by recollections of affectionate friendship and justly merited esteem ^ " A bad effect , but fiom a noble caused * I had too often observed a sad

    inattention to a subject of acknowledged importance , when our Unitarian nonconformist gentry were settling in the -country , perhaps wirh ' aynunti family whose habits were y 11 unformed . They would probably inquire , like other gentry , for a gravelly soil in a fine

    sporting country , conriguoeis to a genteel assembly . But to find or institute a place for Unitarian worship , appeared an object of secondary , if indeed of any , moment . The example of the Duke of Grafton , as 1 had misapprehended it , I thought peculiaily calculated to arrest iheir

    attention , and expose to them by con . trast their own inconsistency . Being soon reluctantly convinced , by your respectable correspondent ( vi . 651 ) , that rny statement was directly opposite to the lacr and that the Duke , at his chict

    residence in the country , 44 did regularly attend on the Church of England worship , and as regular-I 3 ' received the communion frbm a clergyman of the establishment /* my second letter ( p . 721 ) was a

    natural result . I confess , for my «; self , that I cannot remember thh writings and example of M r . Ltfttiti sey , or his friehtl and ^ bibgraph ^ rV and at the same time doubt tie

    late Duke of Grafton ' s Iricoasistt . ency , in adopting a half m ^ aiun ^ such as feis profession of the Unitarian doctrine appears , it was unwotfb ^ of what ** this Hlustrj ^ bus nobleman \ dM » w advani ^ fTietrtfiX \ as His in Jesus * ;<

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    On a Passage , in Mr * Belsham * s Memoirs of Mr . Lindsey * 5 &&

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1812, page 569, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1752/page/37/