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tfvolent fflsinfo&tiohs to b € fdtmS in the Review , as ajfed of the unfairness and dishonesty which' s 6 clearly charactering the mind of the reviewer and exf bse his motives ; 1 think them altogether beneath my notice , at Jeast at this time , and in this place ; they are evidently the
wild ravings of disappointed bigotryj and the stin gless efforts of party " malice . ' It is sufficient for the author of the " Portraiture of Mfethodifeni" that he have the esteem and approbation of the wise and the good , arid ui this he is feafppy to have " iuccceded , even among ** the intelligent inhabitant * of Macclesfield /*
Your ' s Sec . j . nightingale ; I POSTSCRIPT , Since I wrote the foregoing fetter * ^ hich , by your Correspondence , Me % rn if intended for insertion in the next Repository , I have been honoured by another attack from an Evangelical
Reviewer , In the Eclectic Review m this month . And this doughty champion of methodisnt is , if possible , more scurrilous and abusive tnari € Veh xnf good friend in the Methodist Magazine . He prepares for his attack against iti 6 by a ponbpdus account of the requisite ^ of a true and faithfnl historian of
Methodism , and reluctantly afckn owl eagles that Any of th 6 s& qualifications' have failed tt > the share of the author of the Portraiture of Methodism . He then" flourished about the " rock of Kadesh , " and about the feelings of mind to be expected from "one who has seceded from the
Methodist Society . " Having occupied nearly two pages out of ten by these ? foolish speculations and idle conjectures , he beging gradually to open his battery of abuse upon me , by drawing ; a comparative view of the morality and strict discipline of Methodi : m , and the immorality and lavity of Uriitarianism ; of the ** dose cohesion" of " the one , and the ** mutual
repulsion ** of the other ; of the real can * dour of the Methodist , and the vain pretensions to it of the I U nitarian ; of the M eminent zeal" of the one , and the " tor * pit and fri g ' . rific" spirit of the other ; of the great nuntfBers of honest , pious ,
persecuted , conscientious Methodists , and of the * total want of •« even one '* Unitariari Jjf this description ; and , laitly , of the * thousand * o £ poor wretches rescued from want and destruction by means of tne Methodists , and of the « sbririktog * of **« Unitarians from *« the - chalUcngje to
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enumerate as rattf inJt < vtctuc ? h *! H ^ rfe ends for tfee present , thef vain Boasting the pharasaic a % icl insidious corqparisons Of otir Eclectic reviewer . He nexr * , with unparallelled iftfpuden&e , demands niy " feaSbh ** ' for h ^ vihg quitted i ' socr ^ cty so" purified , ' * to join one so yfle airH
corrupt . My book has been already noticed seven different times in the periodical publications of the < fe || ari < £ in fi ^ c out of the seven fatyou ' raBTy ^ spdkeh of ; yet no revieMrcf , before this * impertinent coxcomb , has had the audacity to itia&e
such ah unreasonable demand ! WlienL or why 1 left the society of AfetTiddistsV concerns not the readers' of the Portfaftu ' re" to know . It is with ( fhe , facts , ati 4 with the fkets only , which are * recorded in my work , tliat the public can hiYeaifi ' thing to do ; and 1 riiay here add , thatr notv ^ ithstandm ^ all the keeh-eyed malice of my vififlenr / calumiiiatorsi they , have not adduced a single instance of misrcV .
pretentation ^—tioi one solitary mistate ^ ment throughout the whole of mf work . The fact is , that , to usi | the language of a correspoii 4 fent t wnp is himself a meniber of thfc MetKodist So «
ciety , " there are many truths , in tht book which they arc n&i w /^ inj ? to ' - admit a ^ such . " Arid I here challerl ^ i ; their utmost vigilance to' point out ail instance of ** falsehood , " or onie "wiffo ^ deviation from the strict rule of hi ^ fdrical faithfulness . Shrinififtg frotn an investigation of this nature , these men hare the mean cowardice to ahh £ hcir cnTpoisontid darts at ihy moral rep&tati 9 ii . The drift of this Conduct is obviou *
enough , and will furnish the publfc Vvith strong presurrijitive evidence as favoirrable to the Portraiture of Mcthodisiri , ' as it is disgraceful to the hearts arid motives of" these evangelical libeller ^ . The disapprobation" of sveh xpenf is a species of recommendation which every one ought to be solicitous to rrierit , ^ nd which I shall ever esteem netft to tho ' st
assu tances of positive regard which 1 hav ^ long been honoured with , from mafiy honest and conscientious MetHocfetsy as well as from several of tKe ^ tnost f respectable and Worthy inhabit ants ot the town wliere t last resided ; ' men 1 '
whose frietidshijr operates like the ' ou poured into the wdimds of the fyaqS 0 vum > fell among'thieves 9 and * tlte bare * mentiofi of whose names would apjpal th ^ e hearti and shake tKc cdMdenceof a ^ fiQicWost of ray enemiefll . And what is still m 6 re fortunate fotf th « , in this ca ^ ejmen * wifl
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M # . Nightingale * * Defend 0 , $ 3
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1808, page 83, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2389/page/27/
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