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    To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir , I send you a somewhat curious correspondence between the late Thomas Amory , Esq ., ( the eccentric author of the Life of John Buncle , Esq ., &c ., )

    and my father . It is stated in the Life of the latter , annexed to Mr . Wood's Funeral Sermon , that frequent communications passed between them , several of which were afterwards made by my father the foundation of articles of great value in the early volumes of the Theological Repository . The following are the only ones which I can just now lay my hands on ; and if you should think them proper for insertion in your New Series , they are quite at your service . I am , with every good wish for the success of your undertaking , Your most obedient , Newcastle , Nov . 28 , 1826 . WILLIAM

    TURNERNo . I . Sir , I return you three of the things you favoured me with a sight of ; the tracts * the Livery-Servant , and the Doctor ' s Sermon : but still I want

    Bowman on the Fig-Tree . You shall have the Layman ' s Observations on Oxford and Gloucester , and the Conversion of a Deist , as soon as I have done with them ; and , in the mean time , I observe in general , that the Quaker is out in some things , and Mr . Harwood is greatly mistaken in the account he gives of Collins , Morgan and Bolingbroke , I may add Chubb : I knew the four men well . I do not believe Harwood ever saw them . Three of them were ever men of

    as strict morality as ever lived : and if the Noble Viscount was once extremely wicked , in his younger days , he was an excellent man at last in morals . It is very extraordinary , that of all the writers against him , there is not one of them understood him ; or , that had the soul to take notice , that in his works there is one of the most beautiful moral pieces was ever written . This is concealed

    from the public by the Answerers general , who write more like Turks than Christians , as the saying is : Warburton ' s book , in particular , looks as if it came from the hand of the Devil . Morgan is sadly misrepresented : it was extreme pain made him take opium and brandy sometimes : and it is not true that Collins received the Sacrament now and then for emolument sake .

    He was a constant communicant , for the last twenty years of his life , in the Church of England . He was remarkably punctual at the Supper every month . He never missed : and if the Scheme and Grounds of this great man are the strongest pieces against Christianity that have been written , they were designed , not for the people , but for the most learned Christian divines ; to solve the difficulties which occurred to him in reading the Bible ; to satisfy his mind in the first place ; and , in the next , by a removal of such difficulties ,

    to bring Turks , Jews and Infidels into the Church : and , till all hard things are made easy , the Gentiles will not come in . There are many things which yet want explication . I could wish Mr . Turner was obliged to give me all the satisfaction I require in various particulars , and then I should begin at the first leaf in the Old Testament , and be asking him questions till I came to the last of the New . Tell me , dear Sir , I would say , what is meant by Eden , the two trees , the apple and the serpent ; can you make it a rational relation in a literal sense ?

    ? Probably Lowman ' s on the Logos , &c . W . T .

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    CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THOMAS AMORY , ESQ ., AND REV . WILLIAM TURNER .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1827, page 88, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1793/page/8/