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    he assented to the Repeal , he had given more pleasure to three million good subjects , than ever he or his royal grandfather g-ave them by all the triumphs of their arms . " These yood subjects are exhorted "to pay

    due respect in all things to the British Parliament" ( p . £ 5 ) . " I hope , " says the preacher , ( p . 26 , ) " there are very few people , if any , in the colonies , who have the least inclination to renounce the general jurisdiction of Parliament over them , whatever we

    may think of the particular right of taxation . " He adds , ( p . 29 , ) . " It would be our misery , if not our ruin , to be cast off by Great Britain , as unworthy her farther regards . What then would it be , in any supposable way , to draw upon ourselves the whole weight of her just resentment ! What are we in the hands of that

    nation , which so lately triumphed over the united powers of France and Spain ! " The preacher , however , qualifies this strain of humility , by recollecting that Britain " did this , in a great measure , by means of her commercial intercourse with , and aids from the colonies . "

    From these passages it will appear that the language of this transcendent ^ genius , " as a sensible and

    wellinformed scholar and divine is fondly panegyrized , ( p . 297 , ) is not always suited to express the manly feelings of

    consistent Republicans . Dr . May hew will , I apprehend , be chiefly quoted in his country ' s history , to shew what poor and contracted views of civil policy , and what abject notions of colonial dependence were entertained

    m 1766 , by an American patriot j though one who had " been initiated , in youth , in the doctrines of civil

    liberty , as they Were taught by such men as Plato , Demosthenes , Cicero , and other renowned persons among the ancients ; and such as Sidney and Milton , Locke and Hoadly , among the moderns" ( p . 85 ) . It would , however , be unjust not to

    mention a probable hint against negroslavery , which occurs at p . 4 of this sermon . Speaking of men " made slaves by the right of conquest in war , " the preacher adds , " if there he indeed any sucli right , " This doubt , was probably , all which could « e endured by an audience of slave-

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    holders ; for such were Bostonians in 17661 i Dr . Mayhew survived the delivery of this discourse only a few weeks * The concluding article in this collection is the discourse on his decease ,

    preached to his congregation "by Charles Cbauncy , D . D , A Pastor of the first Church in Boston , * Boston , 1766 . A passage in this discourse shews that Dr . MayhewV disorder had affected his mental faculties . Thepreacher having mentioned ( p . 33 )

    " his dependence on the mercy of God , through the mediation of the only Saviour Jesus Christ , " adds , ** in this temper he lived , and in the same temper , I believe , he would have died , had it pleased the all-wise , righteous and holy Sovereign of the world , to

    have permitted the free use of his reasonable powers . " It appears from a Note ( p . 28 ) , that Dr . JMayhew had been represented in a pamphlet , as * ' enemy to the atonement by Jesus Christ . ' Dr . Chauncy testifies that

    " he never had the least doubt about it . " But the question returns , What did Dr . Mayhew or his friend understand by that equivocal term > Perhaps any thing rather than the Calvinistic scheme of satisfaction by vicarious punishment . N . L . T .

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    Liverpool , Sir , October 9 , 1819 . YOUR Correspondent Dominicus , in your last Number , [ p . 55 $ *] has given sufficient evidence to shew what were John Calvin ' s notions

    respecting the observance of the Sabbath day . I am by no means inclined to " esteem one day above another , " abstractedly speaking ; but t have doubts which I should much like Dominicus , or some other intelligent reader , to solve .

    In the first place , some persons seem to be of opinion with Calvin , that the observance of religious ordinances , on any given day , is a mere matter of " utility and expedience , "

    for , say they , unless some specific time is appointed , " how can they be observed ? " Farther , Calvin is said to have expressed his *' approbation of the conduct of the ancient Fathers in substituting the LordV day for the Sabbath , " at the same

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1819, page 665, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1778/page/13/