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obliged to any of your readers who would take the trouble to inform me who thfeijentleman was ; not that I attach any importance to the Essay , butfti&t the author may not be confounded with a person of the same name , who succeeds Dr . Priestley at Birmingham and appears to have been a correspondent , and sometimes I believe * a con trover - tist of the Doctor * * . Qm
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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository * SlRj I am infowTled thatfthe ^ e is a book extant , entitled Dr . Watts ' s Last Thoughts . " I should be much obliged to any of your readers if they can inform me through the medium of your Repository , howfar the Doctor in this publication renounced his former opinions on doctrinal points . . . , .
" Whitby ' s Last TEoughis , " though not so scarce as Dr . Watts ' s , I have neveirinet with ; do not these books merit the attention of the Unitarian Society ? When men of considerable talents , men whose lives have been devoted to the attainment of religious knowledge , and whose conduct through life has been marked by the piety and uprightness of a Christian : when men of this descriDtion . in the
nearnrnspect of another world , abjure opinions , which through life they have zealously maintained , the change to the searcher after religious truth cannot be unimportant , and to those Christians whose doctrines thejr adopt , it must prove a source of the most solid satisfaction . Wish - ing to see some particulars of one or both of these publications , I am , Sir ., yourSj &c . Nottingham . X ) m
To the Editor of the Monthly Repository * Sir , GivEmeleave ona page of your next" Inquirer , " to ask any of your readers who may be conversant with the works of Lord Bacon to what part of them Milton referred in the following passage of his
Animadversions upon the Remonstrant ' s Defence against SmtctymnuusJ * published 1641 . Having mentioned what cc defaming invectives have lately flown abroad against the subjects of Scotland ^ and our poor expulsed brethren of JSIerv England , the prelates rather applauding than shewing
any dislike , " the author adds , this hath been ever so insomuch , that Sir Francis Bacony in one of his discourses ^ complains of the bishops uneven handover thise pamphlets , confining those against bishops to darkness , but licensing those against puritans , to be uttered openl y ^ though with the greater mischief of leading into contempt the
exercise of religion iu the person of sundry preachers , and disgracing th © higher matter in the meaner person / ' ( Milton ' s Works , Fol . 1608 . P' 141 . )
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The Inquirer , No . iv » 4 $ g
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1807, page 483, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2384/page/31/
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