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by two listers , the daughters of Laban , arid their servant maids , whatever may become of Ishmael and Esau and their offspring and of all the other families of the earth . They will not from the circumstance of themselves or their companions passing their years in an unmarried state , reckon upon being therefore admitted as celibataires , redeemed from the earth along with the old ascetics , the monks , the popes ,
and the priests of Rome to join the voice of the harpers to harp with their harps on the Mount Zion . If in secrecy or silence they sometimes aspire to " do justly , love mercy and walk humbly , are they not engaged in all that is required of them ? Let us then not think evil one of another because
bf our different opinions . It is not every one that has had the sincerity of his opinions brought to the test , which the appearance of death staring a man in the face is supposed to afford . If this test be a true one , then
I know that those opinions are sincere which make so many of my former companions and cordial friends now look shily on me ; but , in so doing , they may think they only follow the prescription of an apostle to a lady , as
he terms her , John , Epist . 2 . At Grand Cairo , in 1801 , from the circumstance of my having let my beard grow , which fashion some of the French savants had adopted , a number of Turks and Arnhauts took me for a
Frenchman , laid hold of me , and dragged or pushed me to the citadel . An Arnhaut rudel y forcing me through a lonely part of the castle , where I was horror-stricken with the idea of being shut up , arid being forgotten and dying
of hunger in one of the dungeons , I thought of Jesus and George Fox , who were , in my estimation very similar characters , though certain followers of the latter have suppressed some of his mistaken or fanatical
expressions ; an art which the fishermen of Galilee , the tax-gatherer , even , and the physician seem , from their writings , to have b £ en too simple for . Those estimable men , thought I , had something to support them when laid
hold of ; their noble enthusiasm . I have only the consciousness of innocenfce in wandering about alone to gratify my curiosity ; which I ha < J done in direct opposition to the advice of Deagenfettes , physician to the Arm&e it \ Orientf and other friend * . My
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horrors 6 veu seemed to mt rather diminished than increased , when the Arnhaut pushed me into a capacious but dark stable , and I thought he -was probably going to assassinate me immediately . A superb Arab ( charger ) stood caparisoned in the centre of it
In one corner of it there was a glimmering light . The fellow drove me to it with a thwack of his firelock on my shoulders . Synchronously or simultaneously with the hlovv
arose hope in my breast . I sprung up a ruinous staircase through which the light issued to the guardroom , whence th e commanding officer eventually released me . FAREWELL .
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54 $ ^ On the Quakers' Yearly Epistle .
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Sir , Aug . 20 , 1815 . BEING a constant reader of your Journal , 1 was not a little surprised to find that the Quakers' last annual Epistle , ( p . 453 ) recognises iu very plain terms several of the leading doctrines which distinguish Unitarians from other classes of Christians . For ,
these doctrines appear to be expressly opposed to those contained in their Epistle for 1810 , ( See vol . v . p . 365 , ) for objecting to which , and on similar grounds , your pages have informed us , that one of their members , Mr . Thomas Foster , was excommunicated ,
or as they choose to express it , disowned . Whether the Yearly Meeting of Friends , as a body , has changed its view of those doctrines sinc 6 it issued the Epistle for 181 O , or since it confirmed the excommunication above
alluded to in 1814 ; or whether no correct inference can be drawn respecting its principles from the Ian * guage it uses , seems from any comparison of those Epistles with each other difficult to ascertain . But that they are really contradictory , a very brief review of them may suffice to
shew . The Epistle for 181 Osays , t € The more we can abide under a sense of our own wants , the readier and thfc more earnestly shall we apply for telp
to him upon whom help is laid . An . Epistle does not directly say who is meant by these expressions . But as i afterwards intimates the propriety oi " endeavouring to apply" to Chris " in secret supplication ; there cannoi be much doubt who was intende d to be described , oh th « cfne haad a * a »
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1815, page 546, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1764/page/14/
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