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iiis ministerial labours , it wouldi no doubt , be granted to him on an application to the Committee of the Society lately established . The relief of human distress should be always administered with all possible delicacy .
It is desirabl e * therefore , that a rule be laid down ( which 1 do not perceive i « yet . done ) respecting the recommendation of proper objects , by those who are acquainted with them , that they may not be under the necessity of applying themselves to the Committee for relief , which will be
less injurious to their feelings by coming to them unsolicited on their part . Impressed , myself , with a deep sense of the peculiar merits of this benevolent Institution , I take the liberty of earnestly recommending it to the attention of the friends of
humanity and religion , including both Unitarian congregations and opulent individuals of that class . Thje Committee have stated in their Report , that " they are already fimiished with a long and distressing list of
necessitous aged or infirm ministers . " " The poor / 1 says our Lord to his discjples , € ( ye have always with you ; " and persons of the description jus * t mentioned wij ) , I am apprehensive , be never wanting in the catalogue of objects of distress , " To do them
good , " who have in the time of health and activity faithfully and conscientiously lafeour ^ d to do ot h ers goo d , has such strong claims on humane and charitable Christians in general , and , it * tfm case , on Proliant
Dissenters in particular ; a * , I trust , every heart wiH feel , and ever > y hand , which has any thing-to- bestow , fre readily and generouslyopened , in cwd ^ r to discharge . Methink ^ indeed , I hear soirie persons exclaim , " How fceqiimttly a appeals made * q our fee ^ eflcenqe !
^> ne institution i $ formed after ajnotlier , and we are exiled upon to con * tribute to , its support . Really there ** no end to it < " Similar language to this I b « Mvo often heapdl , wd am perftiittted , Si * , that ? y *> u > rmi \\ heartily oin
j with me m th ^ ardent lippe tjmt there w # It h rto md tp < it , til I ? then ? be an m&fo aH .. j ^ i ^ or ^^ c ^ ^ up ^ r ^ tir nan ; , vi ^ , gj y in ^^ ry w bifh preiv ^ iJi m tbe > . VHHtyj * w& maolci # d am h ^
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Mr . Maykeiv , ofBoston U ^ . S . 66 S
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TBj J 3 " volutxie of Seven SeirnopjT by Dr . May hew [ p . £ 97 ] i is ^ npw before me , as reprinted at London , 1750 . These . sermons were " prej&clied at a Lecture in the West
Meeting-House in Boston , " in 1748 . The third sermon on ** The Right and Duty of Private Judgmeiit , ' and the fourth , entitled " Objections considered , " appear to express every thing which the most liberal-minded inquirer would desire .
I have another volume , consisting of 44 Maj'hew ' s Tracts and Seruions , " collected by the lateDf . Disney ; an $ part of his valuable library , wh ic ^ i was dispersed by auction , in 1617 . On the first page he has written ,
with a reference to Hollis ' s Memoiri ? , where 1 have seen a portrait of the American divine , " Dr . Jonathan Mayhew , overplied by ^ lublfe enerr ^ ries , died of a nervous fever , July Q 1765 , aged 45 . "
The first six pieces in this colleetiott comprehend the controversy between Dr . Maybew , Mr . Apthorp and Archbishop Seeder . Respecting the followin g anecdote , which incidentally occurs , your readers ui ^ y probably supplv some further information . In
SecJzietfs " Aiiswier to Dr . Mayhew ' s Observations , " 1764 , he says , ( p . 35 , ) speakin g - of the G h u rch of England , ' * Mr . Locke , a member of the same church , was , of all English writers , the greatest advocate for toleration . "
This Anszver produced a Letter to the Author , " By a Protestant Dissenter of Old England , " un ^ er which Dr . Disney has Written , ** By Caleb Fleming . " 1 find also this Letter in the Catalogue of Dr . Fleming ' s writings annexed to the funeral sermon for
hijw in 1 779 * At p . $ 7 , speaking of the Answerer having claimed , 4 i Mr . Locke as a member of the Established Church , " the letter-writer says , «* ' If I have been well infbrmed by an intimate of Mr . Locke ' s , so far
from being £ conformist to the Church of EpglfiiK ^ hey whilst at Lad y Masham ' s , used to prefer the hearing of a lay-preacher among the Dissenters , becatuste there wa ^ f rip pth ^ r lioncbn - forming church conveniently near for hiifr . But , | io ^ ev < er , thin' I will oot fertfier debate with yQfy any more Wtmp l ^ r » wci « j | f 1 t ^ i ^ ire ^ w ^ i ^ ot a member of the Ohurchof JEngland , '
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1819, page 663, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1778/page/11/
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