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especially the benevolent views in the latter part of it , have pro , . vided for the labours of the Associators against Republicans and Levellers , or rather to have been wrought up by the deluding eloquence of Mr . Burke , that master-workman in constructive treason ^ who insulted our venerable Christian philosopher , by a comparison with Hugh Peters , whom , however , he
carimatured for his purpose . * . It is remarkable that the console dation of independent jarring powers which Dr .. Price contemplated as a check to the war system ,, has been just accom ^ plished on the European Continent though by means far different from those which the benevolent speculator could have expected or desired , Your ' s , dug . 29 , 180 7- OUiERO PRIMUS .
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THE QUAKERS To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
Thy correspondent P . M . having in a friendly manner requested that one of the Quakers will " explain why they refuse to pay for a substitute drawn in the militia , and yet pay a tax :
* In a pamphlet published in 1751 , entitled , " An Historical and Critical Ac count of Hugh Peters , after the manner of Mr , Bayle / ' and which ha 9 been ascribed to Dr . W . Harris , the Biographer of Cromwell and the Stuarts , Peter * is described as a " weak and ignorant" man : I do not exactly gee upon what sufficient authority . His quaint politico-religious exhibitions now appear ridiculous enough , buc these were the fashion of the times ; a fashion which such men as Owen and the Armi * nian Goodwin , did not scruple to follow and in which the court-clergy had frequently indulged , when as Mrs . Macaulay observes , " Priests were instructed to teach speculative despotism and graft on religious affections systems of civil tyranny . ** It is probable that Peters hadsome reputation for literature from the present which
tlicparliament made him of Archbishop JLaud ^ s Books , and I think I have somewhere read that hewas the means of preserving entire the royal library at St . James ' s . The land services , which in his prosperity he rendered to several royalists , and whicti tie proved on his trial , do him still greater credit . But his deportment in the article of death , and that a very dreadful one , might command the respect of his bitterest enemies . " Being carried upon the sledge to execution , and made to sit therein -within the rails at Charing Cross , to behold the execution of Mr . Cooke , " ( who had been Chief Justice of Ireland for the Parliament ) , " when Mr . Cooke was cut down and brought to be quartered , one they called Colonel Turner , called to the Sheriff '* rncn to bring Mr . Peters iicar , that he might see it ; and by and by the hangman carnfl
lo him , all besmearedin blood , and rubbing his bloody hands together , he taunting-Jy asked , How do you like this 3 Mr . Peters ? Howdoyou like this work ? To whom he replied , I am not ( I thank God ) terrified at it ; you may do your worst . Being on the ladder , he spoke to the Sheriff saying , Sir , you ha ^ e here slain one of the servants of God before mine eyes , and have made me to behold it , on purpose to terrify and discourage me , but God hath made it an ordinance for my strengthening ^ nd cJicouragcmerijt . ' ( Trials , < kc . of the Regicides , 4 to . 17 J 9 . pp . 2 ^ 7 , 8 . )
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1807, page 520, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2385/page/12/
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