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the town , as domestic examples , to awaken a spirit of emulation . And it wiJl display , before the reader , a scene , which must instruct and affect
every one , who has any idea what libertyy civil or religious , means : liberty , that best birth-right of Englishmen ; and , next to Christianity , the most precious gift of heaven . "
1 he judicial and military cruelties that were practised at Taunton , soon after the defeat of the Duke of Montaouth , are related by Dr . Toulmin with great animation arid pathos . In pp . 166 , 16 ? , a note occurs in which
one part of the conduct of Colonel Kirk is admirably discussed . On the account in this History , of the circuit of Judge Jeffries , pp . 146 , &e . the author was honoured with a letter , May 3 rd , 1802 , from the late Right Honourable Charles James Fox . See
Historical V iew of the Dissenters , pp 513 and 514 ( note ) . 8 * The History of the Puritans , &c By Daniel Neal , M . A . a new edi tion , revised , corrected and enlarged Bath and London , 1793 , , 1797 . 5 vols 8 vo .
A republicationof Mr . Neal ' s highly valuable worfc : was much rteeded . The editor of it " has reviewed the animadversions of Bishops Maddox and Warburton * and Dr . Grey ; and
given the result of his scrutiny in notes ; by which the credit of the author is eventually established , " In the supplement , Dr . Toulmin has presented his readers , with a full abstract of the
history of the English Quakers , or society of Friends : and the liberal and impartial spirit in which he writes concerning them was greatly approved by that respectable body of Christians . So far indeed was he from
wishing to make his edition of Neal a vehicle for conveying particular opinions in Theology , that , although he had sentiments of his own , he was eager to commend goodness and worth
whereever they are found : and he rejoiced in the consciousness of a disposition to grant to others perfect liberty to avow , defend and disseminate their sentiments , though opposite to his , and could give them the praise
* Warburton , as appears from Hurd ' s Life of him , drew up his animadversions © ja Neal in a very careless manner : and they are genexally considered a » jmwortfiy of his © w » reputation .
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due to their abilities and characters Vol . iv . Editor ' s Advertisement . 4 . An Historical View of the State of the Protestant Dissenters in England
, and of the Progress of Free Inquiry and Religious Liberty , from the Revolution to the Accession of Queen Anne . Bath and London , 1814 . 8 vo pp . 592 .
To this volume a very numerous list of subscribers is prefixed . It was the author ' s intention , had his life been continued , to have published a second volume , in which he would have brought down the history of the Dissenters to the accession of his
present Majesty . 'Some preparations he had been making for this purpose during many past months , f and almost to the day of his death : but the state of his papers forbids the hope of any further result of his literary labours being given to the world .
The Historical View , &c . was a favourite undertaking of Dr . Toulmin ' s . He had announced the design so long since as the year 1793 , % and he deeply lamented the obstructions that impeded the accomplishment and
progress of his work . The direction of his studies and the leading qualities of his mind , fitted him for executing it advantageously to his readers , and honourably both to himself and to the body of Protestant Nonconformists .
an . ) CONTROVERSY . 1 . Baptism . I . A Letter to the Society of Protestant Dissenters at the Octagon in Liverpool . London : 1766 . 8 vo . pp . 44 .
This tract is a very candid illustration and defence of the principles of Antipaedobaptists . In pp . 24 , Q 5 f the author , with his characteristic ingenuousness , recommends to be perused , on the side of infant baptism .
Mr . ( afterwards Dr . ) Fleming ' s Tracts on Baptism , Baptism of Infants a reasonable service , and Dipping not the only mode of Baptism—« and , on the other side , BurrongJis on Positive Institutions , with the Defence , Letters on Baptism ^ to the author of the
** t Mon , Repos . x . 390 . * JAdvertisement to the first vol . of Neal , &c . . § The writer of these letters was «•
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670 Memoir of the late Rev . Joshua Toulmin , X > . JD .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1815, page 670, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1766/page/6/
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