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wrought upon was equally necessary to his heaTers . On the day when he preached , every avenue used to be crowded long before he ascended the pulpit . Grattan finely said of this eloquent divine , that " In feeding the lamp of charity * he had exhausted the lamp of life , " The family of this most bountiful patron of the poor and friendless is left in very restricted circumstances , # « Non sibi sed aliis . " most justly belonged to him . The gratitude , the taste ,- the spirit of the country are charged with their protcciion *
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to disown a member for a specul ative point ! It is a pity Mr . Fosters book is so large and so expensive , as it can . not get into general circulation ; for the document called •* the Appeal to the Quarterly Meeting , " is an
excellent and short paper , and should fo universally read . As to myself , Mr . Editor , this recent instance of perse cution , by such a body has confirmed me in the opinion , that a // sects are by their very nature intolerant Your constant Reader . JOHN REED .
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$ 1 ( 5 Mr . Resd , on Mr . Foster ' s Excommunication .
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Stamford , 'Sir , May < 26 , 1815 . YOUR last number ( pp . 246— $ 50 ) contains a review of Mr . Foster ' s € c Narrative of his Excommunication from the Society of Friends , commonly
called Quakers , " exhibiting" one of the most odious instances of priestly tyranny and religious persecution , that has perhaps ever occurred in modern days . I was so shocked at reading the article in question , that I resolved to procure the book , to see if " those things
really were so . " Though rather voluminous , 1 have got through the principal matter , and though 1 freely acquit yoa of having misrepresented the case , yet candour obliges me to confess , that Mr .- Foster's , adversaries
( who appear to have assailed him both privately and openly with a most merciless spirit ) did adduce on his trial , many passages from the Quakers * early writers , that seem to militate strongly against Mr . Foster ' s tenets ; but on the other hand , Mr .
roster was always ready with paragraphs from the same writers , equally strong in favour of his side of the question . There is so much quaintness and want of method in the style arjd reasoning of writers in general belonging to this Society , that it is
extremely difficult to get at their real n&eaning . Hence we find them falling into continiial contradictions , and even absurdities ; but surely if this be the case , a man should not be excommunicated for not clearly
comprehending their meaning . I have asked among ray acquaintance , if the Quakers have ever published a creed , and I find they have not , but direct their members to be guided by the light within , in their interpreting the scriptures : hc > w ' absurd , how unjust , then ,
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Plymouth-Dock , Sir , May 8 , 1815 . NOTE at the foot of page 241 A of the present volume , by Mr , D . W . Jones , in reference to Rev
xvi . S 9 which seems to countenance the doctrine of brutes possessing an immaterial principle , brought to my recollection the opinion entertained by Mr . Toplady oh this subject . In the third volume of his works , pp . 463—470 , is recorded a speech which be de » li vered before a club that used to hold
their meetings at the Queen ' s Arms , Newgate-Street , on the question —' " Whether unnecessary craelty to the brute creation is not criminal , " wherein he advocates * the immortality of brutes . As his manner of treating the question is curious , and may , perhaps , afford some entertainment to those of
your readers who are unacquainted with that gentleman ' s productions , I shall , with your leave , take the trouble to transcribe the speech at length , for insertion in the Repository . Ij appears that Mr . Toplady had paid some attention to the subjects in
dispute between materialists and mm terialistsj smd , agreeably to his biographer , it was his intention to enter the lists against Dr . Priestley \ but he died within a few months after the Doctor ' s Disquisitions were first published . The paragraph in his Memoirs to which I allude , stands as follows : "It was his intention , l » a health been permitted , to emp loy . *» pen id endeavouring to refute opin ions advanced by Dr . Priestley , J ;" book entitled « Disquisitions n M atter and Spirit / Though the Vector theological principles atod his , vi « ^ as opposite as it were possible to ceive , we caonot help atiticipat ^ j that if such an intellec $ ^ ff * » ^ taken place , frqm the specimen
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1815, page 346, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1761/page/18/
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