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    punctual attendant or * the * " Society for promoting Primitive Christianity /* which met at " the Primitive Library " at Whi 3 ton ' s house in Cross Street , Hatton Garden , " from 1715 to 1717 ; and to which " Sir . Peter King , Dr .

    Hare , Mr . Benjamin Hoajlley , and Dr . Clarke , were particularly invited ; though they none of them ever came . " ( See Mem . 202 , Hist . Mem . of Dr . Clarke , 66—74 , Ed . 3 , 1748 . ) In 1735 , Mr . Collet , being " very ill , " and , as he supposed , " in danger of death , " desired Whiston "to anoint him with oil , according * to the injunction in James v . 1 . 4- —16 . " Whiston

    ** hesitated and durst not venture ; not then remembering * that the Apos tolical Constitutions appoint a form for the consecration of oil , and in want of oil , of water , for the healing of the sick , and the casting out daemons , nor recollecting * ' Tertullian ' s relation of * ' the cure of Severus the

    Emperor by Proculus Torpacio , upon his anointing , him with oil ; " otherwise he was inclined to " have consecrated some oil , and anointed him . " His friend , however , recovered , notwithstanding the omission from " involuntary ignorance on both sides . "

    Whiston mentions again ( p . 365 ) r * Mr . Collet / ' with whom he " was at Newbury in 1748 , " where he " heard Mr . Mace preach in the same Meeting-house where he had heard Mr .

    Pierce preach before he went to Exeter . " There was also a R ^ v . Joseph Collet , " of " Coat , in Oxfordshire , " on whose death , in 1741 , a sermon was preached there by the father of the late Dr . Stennet .

    In the conversation which I noticed p . 650 , Dr . Toulmin informed me that Governor Collet , who had held an appointment in the East Indies , and of whom I promised a . further account , , was , he believed , the person addressed in a pamphlet , npw before

    me , entitled , " Two Letters to a very eminent and learned Gentleman , attempting to subvert the ; Qoctjiqe of the Arians , / Being- Animadversions pn a very famous Arian Manuscript , wrote by Him , some , Yeara since , in India . IJy a Country Gentleman * 3 rd Ed . 1751 . " In the preface ; we are informed , that *< the author of these Letters , and the learned Gentleman to whom th £ y were addressed , being occasionally in con-

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    versation , arguments arose concerning the Arian scheme : and the author for several good reasons , declining to enter iqto the controversy , was pleasantly told by him , that his unwilling ^ ness proceeded from a consciousness

    of the badness of his cause , which indeed , was the only reflection thai could have roused him , or provoked him , to engage at all in this debate ; not being willing to enter the lists with a gentleman to whom he stood greatly obliged . " Of this gentleman , who appears to have died before the

    publication of the Two Letters , he further says , ( p , ix ,, ) that •«« he was , in truth , a man of great ingenuity , learning , humanity , charity and good sense ; but was so particularly eminent for his Arian sentiments , ( which he was far from endeavouring to conceal , ) that had the author leave , and wa 3 he so inclined , it would be

    altogether needless to publish his natne . " The " Country Gentleman , " thus challenged , now borrowed his Arian friend ' s MS ., and " after some considerable time" sent the first letter , to which he received " a very short letter , which did not contain an answer to

    any one of the author ' s arguments , but instead thereof , a pamphlet came with it , bearing the name of one Chubb , for its author . " This pamphlet was , no doubt , " The Supremacy of the Father vindicated , " with a dedication " to the Reverend the Clergy ; and in particular to the Right Reverend Gilbert \ Burnet \ Lord Bishop of Sarum . " ( 2 nd edition , 1718 . ) Whatever Chubb may appear in his

    later writings , he is here as strictly Christian as Dr . Clarke in his " Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity . " Yet the "Country Gentleman" says of Uira , ( p . 73 , ) " What he drives at , I

    apn well aware of ; and by that way of reasoning , we may bring ourselves into downright Dei ^ rn , which , I think , the Arian scheme naturally leads to . " He , also , there mentions " the pamphlet wrote by Philanthropies" sent t ; o him by the author of the JMS ., as V a full answer" to his first letter .

    The " Country Gentleman" soon s , ent the second letter , to which his friend , " being much , indisposed , caused a sort of answer to be wrote by another hajid . " Neither , of these lexers was he permitted to publish-. The , " Country Gentleman" having

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1823, page 714, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1791/page/34/