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even some C&tvimsts who attended tfrere a $ much p leased as any others ; For might thsrc 1 can ; see I might have preached seventy times seven discourses in the same manner , and with the same rforccess *; btrt the genius of Calvinism exerted itself to prevent so good a work .
The heads of all the above parties , and many of the individuals among them w&re visited , and their prejudices ^ and their fears , and their ignorance , were a& wrought upod , fill . they were terrimd- exceedingly about my principles * They , ytete told that 1 denied Christ * that I called bim an idol , that I had
dedaied I would destroy him ; ihat I denied the inspiration of the scriptui es ; thai I did not believe man . had a souLj that I denied all future punishment , did pot heMevev thefc Was any hell * totally denied lhe being of the devil , and that it waa doubtful ^ if I admitted that there was either a God or a heaven . , These
fearful reports worked some days in secret * and it is eVen but lately that I have understood their number and extensive operation Their effect , how * ever > on the minds of ignorant religionists , you may well conceive of without a description . id * The consequence of these reports afras that I was * excluded from the
Cudworthian meeting : the owner of it sayiiigy that he fully approved > 6 f every thing which he- had heard me deliver there , but as I did not believe the l ^ eky of Chtist and the . doctr in e of atonement , I must preach there no more ; refusing at the tame time to discuss these points with- me , because , so life said **** I was too weighty for him in
srgumeht / ' About the same time most OFttie Cudwqrthians , Universalists , ^ nd Armiriians , Ac . forsook jme , after giving me a sum to pay travelling expenses . Except Mr . S . and Mr . p . I had liardly a religionist left to encourage me . Bun three days before I wa& dismissed from the e ^ dworthian mpeung , jyjtr .. W , C , my b ^ csent < kind ai ^ d generous bW f myfei ^ sent kiad ^ roJ generous host ,
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also that my ejectment had roused the attention of tne non-professing part 01 the town . I was therefore detersfm ? d to preach somewhere .- Several , pl&O £# weie offered- I chose , a » most CQi ^ venient , the large shop of Mr . S . _ -s , g ^ r-i penter , in London Street . HererJ bav © preached four Sundays , and tbouglv th ^
weather has been cold , aod , last $ un * day , very wet , yet tae co ^^ galiOil has continued to increase , and , in th evening , the place is greatly crowded indeed , though perhaps not tweiatjF religionists attend in the whole -congees gation . ^ 4 th . As I had no place in which Jot give a lecture on a w ^ ek ev ening , 1 de- » livered lectures to different classes of
persons , two , three , otc . and once even four times in the week , in private houses . I began with about twenty persons in a company . . The numbers- hav « increased to thirty , forty , and even fifty , yet still select and respectable . J read most part of all these lectures , and all of some of them . A few orthodox
or semi-orthodox at first attended t ^ € m % but hare now left nie ^ except two or three , ! for . they say » fM arm capable of deceiving ^ it' it , were possible ^ the- very elept , " Conie < jU ) entJy I have goftei * quite a new school . My method isthisr 1 neither sing nor pray , butbemmfoY '
Short address oq the rights of consc ^ ence ^ . or on the use / of reason in rdrg rtwo , or oa the sourcesj nature , andTcffectsof deism , or on the excellency of teveian tion , Sac , &c I state my subject * amd read the whole , or enlarge extempore oil particular partsu After I have d&rfl& * con versa ion > follows O % \ jeatiensr : Stf ^ e
made , or questions ; are ask ^ d ^ ** r se > m « other interesting subject is discussed * Here are persons who soinc o £ theflfctill me that they have not been to any > place of worship , extj « pt on a puhlc ^ ccusion , for fi-ve ^ or sev « fci * or t en ^ <>* ' fifeeen ye ? w ® . A few of th ^ serh av ^ b ^ en in the hAbit qf reading their BibJks . attentiY ^ lyV others not ^ t &U ^ jQne of them told «* ie « . £ nr
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Es&ratt * from ike Report of the Unitarian Fund , IS 12 . 771
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1812, page 771, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1755/page/43/
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