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And to this day , for a perpetual monument , in the very place where they burnt his bones , though the townsmen , for their own profit , have often essayed to bring the water that way it never holds , but still makes a bank . "
Dr . Hoyle very fairly furnished a Popish antagonist with this apology for legendary lore . For it is in " a rejoinder to Mr . Malone ' s reply concerning the Real Presence . P . 654 . " Thus , at least , it is quoted in a "
History of Popery , " republished 1736 , ( ii . 170 ) though I little expected to find such a Protestant marvel gravely repeated in a work written to expose the frauds and fables of the Romish Church .
1 should be glad to learn when Dr ~ Hoyle wrote , and if his strange accidents still furnish a winter s tale at . Lutterworth ; also , whether the spot be known , by tradition , where the bones of WicklifFe were burnt , and from whence their ashes were scattered on a neighbouring stream . An impotent revenge , While yet along- th& stream of time his name
Expanded flies and gathers ail its fame ! You probably have readers in Lutter worth or the neighbourhood . SOCIUS .
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550 Narrative of a recent Convert to Unitarianisrn .
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convenience , either in their reputation or estate : or ( which is still more distressing ) who from a dread of plunging a numerous family into poverty and starvation , have been deterred from openly exertiwg themselves , in a cause which has lain nearest to their hearts ; and of which they might otherwise have been shining ornaments , as well as able and zesflous defenders . I was led into these reflections , bv a visit which I lately paid , in company with a friend , to a person who I had understood had recently embraced Unitarian sentiments . Upon our making known to him who we were , and the motive of our visit , he
received us with all the warmth of an affectionate brother . He had never before conversed with a Unitarian , and the people round about him are so deplorably ignorant , that he is in a manner secluded from an intercourse with any kindred mind . Though entire strangers , we had walked
twelve miles for the purpose of seeing ; him ; and the few hours which we spent in his society , proved an ample compensation for our labour . He evidently possesses a mind of extraordinary energy joined with great
benignity , but the untoward opposition of temporal circumstances has hitherto repressed the free disclosure of his sentiments , although it has not prevented the exertion of his vigorous intellect . He is the master of a free
school , which together with a few boarders , forms bis sole dependence for the support of a family of eight children , the eldest not fourteen years of age ; and the articles expressly stipulate , that if he is not in every respect a true son of the church the trustees have a power to remove hini from his office . On an ordinary mind
these circumstances would operate as an irrefragable argument to preserve , at least , in every outward respect , a strict conformity with the requisition , if it did not bend every inward sentiment in an humble submission to its dictates : but in himw hile parental ¦ ¦ ¦ l k a- ^
, ^— ¦ . ^ » »> »* - » » - ^»_ j w ~ -r w r \_^ - " ¦» - » a ^ m , » — . — -m - n / V affection hovers over its tender onspring , love of sacred truth impel * to search for some new situation , ll 1 which he may cordially unite with life Christian brethren in the w orship oi the common Father alone , and ma ?
feel no restraint in the consistent application of hi * best efforts , m ™
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Narrative of a recent Convert to Uni tarianistn . Sir ,
T 1 ^ H E abhorrence with which B Christians of Unitarian sentiments are generally regarded by their orthodox brethren , ought to operate as a very powerful motive to the exercise of mutual candour and unanimity . We are regarded by the generality of professing Christians as enemies to the gospel of Christ , as denying the Lord . who bought us ,
¦ and as striking at the very vitals of true religion . While our consciences acquit us of these heitfous charges , such circumstances ought surely to have the most powerful effect , in uniting us in the closest bonds of Christian love and amity . Particularly should they admonish us , to support , encourage , and assist those , who for the sake of a good conscience , in openly avowing what they believe * to be the truth as it in Jesus , have brought upon themselves worldly in-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1815, page 550, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1764/page/18/
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