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sisteney of Disseaters in ibe choice of ministers . . ' . . . Before I close , it may not be amiss to oolice another passage in tbe Memoirs , which seems to need explanation . Page 264 , note . iC In Northamptonslaine ^ " says Mr . Belsham , ( speaking of the
power claimed by Independent church&s + X 6 * 1 rfcoUff-t ^ miJLher instance , in which a vje&ejatje minister , of irreproachable ctmracter , of most amiable manners , and unimpeached orthodoxy , was dismissed from his office fey the
churchy under some trifling pretence , in opposition to the seme of by far the most respectable part of the congregation . ' Tbe person referred to , doubtless , was
Mr . Hextalof Northampton , formerly of 8 udbury / The fact was , that he was a much higher Galvinist than Dr . DoddrMge or Mr , Gilbert , or the person chosen tosucceed him . But what Mr . Belsham
styles ** a trifling pretence" was , •—that he was a man of enlarged charity ^ and would not anathematize and expel certain worthy persons , whose sentiments were
obnoxious to some narrow-minded and bigoted people , who had been thorns in the skies of I > r . Doddridge . These people interpretttd his great candour as a proof of his heterodoxy , and were
so eealaus in propagating the idea of his departure from the truth , that the majority of the subscribers , if % bey bad been allowed a vote would have given it against him ; for it is certain that the number
of those who remained , exceeded theirs who espoused this Worthy man , ttnd went with him to bis new chapel . It must not be omitted , that what excited the violent opposition trf some wte
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( as had been the . case at Sod bury , his voting differently from them at the electuwa of a member erf Par * liament . So ia&onst&teiH have often been the professed friends of liberty ! Mr . Belsham will excuse the freedom used by A Daventb y Pupil .
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On 0 Passage in Mr * Behktm * Memoir * of Mr . Lindsey . Sir , I hare just read Mr . JBelsfcan *' * truly interesting Lrtfe of the late venerable Mr . Landsey , a work « the execution of wbjch * < $ oes equal credit to the head and heart of
the worth y and learned author . But there is one passage in that work , which may contrary to the intention of the writer , produce an unfavourable effect on the
minds of some persons towards a popular institution , notwithstancL . ing he mentions it in terms of high commendation . Speaking of different Unitarian Societies , he oh .
serves , ( page 308 & 9 , ) " But At society which at present hold ^ the foremost rank , and eugages Ae most general and the warmest support of the Unitarian body , is that Which is called the Unitarian
Fund Society , " -&c The account is too long to transcribe , but aftei explaining the nature and praising the object of the institution , it
Concludes thus , " How far tbo venerable patriarch of Unitarianism would have patronised a soci * ety of this description cannot now be ascertained . This last
sentence seems incorrect ; . It is per-r fectly known to several . persons that he highly approved of the so ^ ciety , and felt the greatest satisfac tion in its success . He was one of its earlipst and warmest patrons .
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610 On a Passage in Mr . Biteham ' s Memoir * of A £ r . lAndtcy .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1812, page 610, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1753/page/14/
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