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MR . STURCH ON" MR . BENNETT ' S SERMON * To the Editor of ike Monthly Repository . Sjr ,
The rule which you have adopted and announced to your correspondents at the end of your last number but one , " to insert nothing relating to matters of fact ^ which comes under the unauthentic shape of an anonymous letter / ' is so evidently right , and so highly important , that I will venture to say it must give pleasure to every one of your readers , and though I might otherwise feel some reluctance to publish my name , yet , as I
mean to speak to matter of fact as well as matter of opinion , I shall conform to it without hesitation . 1 have read the letter of your correspondent B . Marten , in your last number , with no little regret , because it contains evidence , that there is one individual , if not more , amongst a class of Christians , which I have always respected , who though professedly <* a friend to free inquiry , " is so much under the influence of system , as to be capable of misrepresenting facts in order to fix a stigma upon a worthy man who happens to differ from him . This , I confess , is a serious charge ; but , I am
sorry to say , not difficult to make out . Mr * Bennett , in the Address to the Ministers and Representatives of the General Baptist Churches , prefixed to his discourse , expresses his thanks for the patient attention with which most of them heard him . But , says your correspondent , I believe that in this he is very imon'ect , Wha . t JVlr , Marten would
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584 Mr . Sturch on Mr . Bennett ' s Sermon .
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ruminate upon , and it struck me afterwards , that , if you would give a place to this letter in your magazine , it might excite some of our Unitarian missionaries , to converse ,, wherever they have an opportunity , with the methodist teachers , and , hearing calmly all their denunciations , to set before them gradually those points , which may lead them to investigate the true meaning of the scriptures . The methodist has zeal , which only requires proper direction , and many methodist teachers have been eminently useful in bringing men from their false notions of religion , and to worship the only true God , the God and Father of Jesus Christ . I remain 5 Sir , Your sincere well-wisher , VIATOR .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1807, page 584, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2386/page/20/
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