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education md fierce political rivalry to abhor Jefferson , who no doubt re- * turned it by perhaps a more guarded but a deeper aniofcosaty : —He writes to the man who- seemed almost his natural enemy , in a style truly ? gentlemanly aiad truly Christian , to innuke into his sentiments respecting tian revelation tates
the Chris . He s ? that many persons believe Mr . J . tobe a sceptic or a disbeliever , hoping * it is not so , but that his rejection is only that of the irrational , unscriptur&l , and absurd . doctrines which have too often passed for Christianity ; hoping too , that Mr . J . will not permit his celebrated name to descend to
posterity , as that of a man who disbelieved the doctrines of the Christian revelation , and to be used as an argument against its credibility . Jefferson replies with great good sense and good feeling " , and as it appeared to me ( scanning his words , you may
assure yourself , with suspicious keenness ) in a mantie * open and explicit . He professes his belief in the divine mission of'Christ , * his regret that the corruptions € > f Christianity have so loog obscured its glories and prevented its reception— - ^ and his joy ,
that taese corruptions are now passing * away , and that the doctrine of the Divine Unity and just views' of tha divine character are making a progress so rapid and extensive . Whei * I speak of ; Mr . Pickering , I speak of a man of great intelligence and of a character whieh more resembles thafc
ot Cato than of any other man . Hisopinions were changed many years ago , by the reading of Dr . Price ' s , Sermons , and he has since been a * zealous Unitarian . " These also * are the opinions of General Brooks , Dr . Osgood'a parishioner , whose steady liberality of sentiment had an effect the toast
beneficial upon the good Doctors chapter and ministrations . He also has had a distinguished military career , and commanded & regiment at * ne capture of Burgoyne with great Mat . At the peace , he resumed the
medical profession , anxt continued it * rth great reputation for thirty years , ? na indeed to the prefsent tim ^ to Km immediate friends , ffrtd » eigkl > l > uifc * We has been for seven or eig&fc yetira governor of tiifci state with great esteem , and with ao * aroch moderation ,
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t * nt er&n tfafc democrat * had almoet given up their opposition to * life atf ~ rtnal re-election . This ofit&e he resigned two naonths agoy to the rq ^ re £ of all . We have just lost * aa ^ admirsM We man , Mr . George Cabot , dtf ti&& town , a * direct descendant I beKeve eC Sebasrtian Gaboft . He told me that more than forty years ago , he ifcet with one or two merchant ? in a littte
cotnpting-room , which lie pointed oat , to devis < e the m ^ ans of pubKsb- » ing some liberal tracts ^ especially Dr * t Priestley ' s little c Appeal' and History of Corruptions . When the Doc * tor was at Philadelphia , Mr . G . was ? a senator in Congress , and his con * -
stant hearer and great admtrer . Dr ^ KirkEand preach ^ i his funeral sermon last Sunday , and I hope to bring yoti acquainted with the character o ? this pure , able , judicious , and most amiabfe man . He was a Unitarian , who laid great stress upon the value of these principles : and at one of t&e '
last conversations I had with him ; he ? expressed , m terms similar to those * in which you are wont to clothe the strength of your belief , that those ? principles of which we were speaking , would in no long tittle becomethose of the intelligent and virtuous * throughout the United States .
" I mention tfcese men , my dear Sir , not because they are governors and senators r &c « These are names * and emphaticall y in this eounUry , vox et prs&terea mhil , conferred upon * h&
ignorant , the worthless and the t * ttf gar . But I mention them ad men- of sense and reflection , raised , all 3 # them , by tkese qualities , united wltfe an excellent moral character , fron an humble ; station , to much
distinction among their fellow - cOizeBB . They werer aii educated in the times arad principles of Orthodoxy j all eminent during their whole liv ^ a in activer life and the busies * of the worM * That such men shtnild become the 1
supporters and advocates oflibet ^ t sentinnents , in opposition tb e&ly prejudices , and avoreOv&r && A p ^ iotf of life when zeal is apt ? tt > codV s ^ o ^ ild take a warm interest in die pm | m gmasi of Uiiitatffan ^ ^« timw * fe , B mtiBt think affowte n « y mmfcptmwoqp tie > n , that these opinfon ^ tfppjhtyve themselvm , whert W 0 &fo&ft , w tfte gmve aAd i « tel % feritirfqiiii ^^* ' Fnow Wi ^ tmim , Another <^ i ¥ ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1823, page 535, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1788/page/39/
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