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    Short Account of M . Pillonie ? e . 9

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    there , he determined to follow his Majesty , in hopes of meeting with something more agreeable to his inclinations and former way of living . He accordingly embarked for England , carrying with him a recommendatory letter from M . LeClercto the then Bishop of Salisbury *

    After he had been about six months in England , he was induced to accept the office of a French teacher in a school at Croydon , kept by Mr . Mills . This was during the time of the Rebellion ; and while here , amongst other things , he trans ** lated into French the four Sermops of Bishop Hoadly against the free-thinkers—Dr . Clark ' s work 4 C On the Existence and Attributes of God "—r-and designed to go on in translating his

    second volume of Boyle ' s " Lectures on the Truth of the Christian Religion ; " " none of which /* says he , * should I ever haye voluntarily undertaken to trouble myself about , had I put on , as I am falsely and barbarously accused , the air of a freethinker /* After he left Mr . Mills , he was so strongly recommended to the patronage of that excellent prelate , Bishop Hoadly , as to

    induce him to take Mons , Pilloniere into his family ; and the Bishop , in a preface to the work from whence this account of ] V 4 . Pilloniere is taken , g ives the strongest testimony to the uprightness of his character , as well as his full conviction of the sincerity of his abandoning the Catholic faith . On his first coming to England , he communicated with the

    Calvinistical Church in the Little Savoy , in which the Liturgy of the Church of England was used , and , after that , with the Church of England very frequently . Here , as far as relates to M . Pilloniere himself , the account terminates . How long he lived , where he died , and whether he continued a Protestant ta the end of his life , it is not in my * power to satisfy the **• Inquirer . " I can only speak for myself , and say , that in reading attentively the account he has given of himself , I perceive a mind so enlarged with rational and consistent views of Christianity , together with that true Christian spirit , the absence of which , in late years , we have had too much reason to deplore , both amongst Churchmen and Dissenters , that I am persuaded within myself , such a mind could hardly ever revert back to the abominable tenets and absurd practices of that Church , from which he so mbch gloried in being emancipated . It might be farther added , that the persecutions he endured , the privations and sufferings of various kinds , the desertions of intimate friends , the dissolution of endearing connections , and the endearing name of father turned into that of enemy , are so n ^ any presumptive proofs of the sincerity of his adherence to the Protestant faith .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1807, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2376/page/9/