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    SOS Parallel Passages of Mr . We IIbeloved ' s fif Bp . Taylors .

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    rARALLlZL PASSAGES OF MR . WELLBELOVED ' s AND BISHOP Taylor ' s , To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir , When I first perused Mr . Wellbeloved ' s excellent cc Devotional Exercises , " a book which I should wish to see in the hands of every young person , I was particularly struck with the following important observation ., which , if duly impressed upon youthh . il minds , would surely engage them to turn with horror from the commission , of a crime , which , in the present state of society is , alas , too often considered as a venial offence .

    cc Some crimes cannot be committed by an individual alone : many vices must have sharers in the guilt they produce ; and can repentance remove the criminality of haying been instrumental to the destruction of others ? Can any tears on our part wash away the stains we have impressed upon the character of those whom our vices have ruined ? ' Repentance cannot extend beyond the individual : it may bring me

    to a right way of thinking , and recover me to a conscientious ad-, heronce to virtue : but can repentance give perfect ease to a mind which is conscious of having diverted others from the path of virtue into that of sin ; and enticed them into that evil conduct , in the -midst of which , perhaps , they have been arrested I ) y death , or in

    ' which they continue to proceed without any apparent hope of refor-, mation ? If our influence have been very extensive , our sorrow will be proportionally more severe when we come to reflection ; and may perhaps-iiccompiiuy us into the other world , and interrupt our enj joyment there . If . we retain the remembrance of what we have been and clone I ; ^ re $ we must be grieved , even in the presence of God , 1 that through our means some axe excluded from those happy regions , < and lamenting their connexion with us in scenes of darkness and dci spair I" p . 66 .

    This very important reflection is , J know , an original thought of the amiable author ; but he will not , I am persuaded , be displeased to see that the same thought had occurred to the venerable Bishop Taylor . And your readers will , no doubt ,

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    Not doubling you will receive as much improvement and satisfaction from I he lectures of my successor as you have done from jaiinc , provided you give equal attention to them , I am , my young Friends , Clapton ^ Your late affectionate Pastor , April b \ \ 79 h J . PRIESTLEY .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1807, page 398, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2383/page/2/