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thesis analogous to the preceding , on the difference to be observed between the operations of the mind and those of the senses . The Court of Berlin had conferred on him the title of Counsellor of State , but after the death of the Prince of Brunswick his
benefactor , Amo , fallen into a deep melancholy , resolved to quit Europe where he had lived thirty years , and to return to his native country of Axim on the Gold Coast . There he was
visited in 1753 by the learned traveller and physician , David Henry Gallandat , "who mentions him iti the Memoirs of the Academy of Flushing , of which he was a member .
Amo , then about the age of fifty , passed his life at Axim in solitude . His father and his sister were still living , and his brother was a slave at Surinam . Some time after , he quitted Axim , and settled at Chama , in the Fort of the Dutch Company of St . Sebastian .
I have attempted , without success , to discover whether Amo published any other works , and at what time he died .
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fu ture preferment , of which , by \\\ % connexion with some noble families , as well as his abilities and course of studies-, he might have entertained very reasonable expectations . He left Catterick in 1773 . The sermon , which he preached on leaving his parishioners , was his first publication .
Mr . Lindsey next published , An Apology for resigning the Living of Catterick , which was followed by a Sequel to it . On April 17 , 1774 , he opened a new Chapel at Essex House , in Essex Street , London , the worship of which 'was conducted according to Dr . Clarke ' s amendment of the
Liturgy of the Established Church . The arrangements made for this form of worship were conducted much in union with Dr . John Jebb . * The leading aim of the reformed Liturgy ( as its advocates call it ) is , to exclude the worship of a Trinity of
Persons , and to ascribe Deity alone as a unity to the Father . Mr . Lindsey and his disciples have chosen to call themselves rather Unitarians , than Socinians , not professing to follow Socinus f in all points : and this is the leading view in Mr- Lin dsey ' s writings ,
* Dr . Disney ' s Life of Dr . Jehh , p . 84 , 85 . -f In the use of names to different partie * of professing * Christians no invidious distinctions are intended here or elsewhere ; hut merely specifications or classifications of religions opinion . Catholic , Papist ,
Protestant , Episcopalian , Presbyterian , Independent , Unitarian , Trinitarian , Methodist , Baptist , Moravian , Quaker , the like , are terms sometimes used in a sense bordering * on contempt or reproach , but no such sense should be adopted in a work of this kind . Every party has a right
to its own interpretation of doctrines , will deem that appellation only the proper one , which they give themseLves . On the one hand , " the dispute is not whether there be one God or three Gods , but whether the Divinity of Jesus Christ be incompatible with the unity of God- which unity 1
both sides believe . "" Robinson " s Plea for the Divinity of Christ . On similar ground , those who call themselves peculiarly U' 11 ' tarians , may not choose to be called Socinians , though they believe one leading doctrine in common with So > cinus , not
beingpledged to believe all that Socinui and the Fratres Poloni believed . But religion has heen treated like a watch , pulled to pieces by unskilful hands , nor can allJ art , even in idea , put it together again , butane , which is , that of pay ing" a » ort »»
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66 Sketch of the Life of the late Rev . Theophihos Lindsty .
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Sketch of the Life of the late Rev . Theophilus Lindsey . [ From Dyer ' s History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge . ] npHEOPHILUS LINDSEY , ( a JL name in great repute with the modern Socinians or Unitarians , ) Fellow ( of St , John ' s ) was A . M . in 1748 , and formerly Vicar of Catterick , in
Yorkshire : he ( as well as Mr . Mason , ( the poet 9 j between whom there had subsisted great friendship at college ) had been pupils of Dr . Powell , but he soon turned into another school , and in 1773 , having rejected the doctrine of the Trinity , he resigned his living , and with it , all prospects of
Disputatio philosopbica continens ideam distinctam earum quae competunt yel menti vel corpori nostro vivo et org-anico , quam consentiente amplissiniorum philosophoriim ordine prteside M . Ant Guil . Amo , Guinea—afer , defendit Joa Theod . Mainer ^ philos , ct J . V . Culler , in 4 to . 1734 . Wittenbergae .
6 See the Monthly Magazine , in 8 vo New York . 1800 . V . i . p . 453 , &c . 7 See Verhandeling-en vitgegeven dooi het zeenwach g"enootscbap der wetenschappen le Vlissing'en , in Svo . te Middleburg-1782 . V . ix , p . 19 , fcc .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1815, page 66, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1757/page/2/
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