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    nearer than the rest to 4 , he church of Rome- ' ,. ; -.. ¦ ' ¦ . ? : ; : -j Persecution < $ nnot be justified by any diversity b& religious of > i- > nion ; not evea Athei ^ ip itseJf is amenable to the coercive p 0 W « r of the civil magistrate until f its abettor endeavours to -d&tarb the

    morals and peace of society ; -but I hope R . F . will not attach the chargeof persecution to the Friends or any other religious society , unless they retain Atheists and Deists in religious fellowship with them ; -

    he may say t&at the persons mentioned by him are neither . Atheists nor Deists ; whether they are or are not the argument is not affected by it , for if it be persecution to disown or exclude them from a

    religious society 5 < m account of difference of sentmient ,. it isequally so to disown an Atheifct or Deist for tfee s&me tfeastwu As * I sitspect R . F * has hastily condemned the Friends on ex > paxt& evidence , I would recommend him in

    future to sUto ** p the ^ evidence on both sideSof ^ a question befo re he again assuines , unsolicited , the province of & judge- This is an advantage not always granted to Reviewers , whose decision , on the character of a work is often de * .

    maided before they can possimy know what the party , against whom it : is 'written ; has to say' in his defences > Inthis delicate situation the Monthly Reviewers have been recently placed ; wfoen they published * their OTitiquei on * he conduct of the Friends towards

    Hannah Barnard , las it was represented hflhlef advocates , they pra * nouncc * d a fe ^ nR inte of contleKjnation against fcfoe sooiety for its proi ¦ ¦ i . -4 .. . 4 i ' ,. < ,. S ' . ' ' . ' > . ' v '< ¦ ' ¦

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    ceedings in that c ^ se . ^ Qi ^^ R ^ lipwever since had an opportupity of examining the t 5 y ?^ # ee ; Q » ^ t 4 ^ other side , and wlrtit is $ * £ tiegnfiti " .: 8 oHie . of the priiicipfes 0 f Hto ^ nah Barnard , 'V say th # y , # < &p *} pear to f > e deistical , and w ^ are not surprised t ^ at the society should reftj . se to afford th ^ rn their

    sanction . ^ Again , ftJt # fijp t ^ fti ^ ai to acknowledge the miracjes , and her expressed ^ isbqlief ^ the r 0 ^ urrection of Ch rist , ¦ $ , niQhn % ; % && proof of Deisin which disqtialifiteft her from being ; a p * fiacbkr £ o a Christian Society * . Such < is { £ ti& corrected judgmerit of the Monthly

    Review ; to , which I shall ohly addy that so far were the Friends from manifesting any personal arii- * mdsity towards : H . IK * that , con * "" Sidering her claims on them , as a stranger , in a fWeign land , they offered to provide her wftfe suit » able accommodations < m herintehded return to- ' AfaeVifeta , -eetiAW

    defray the expense Df h ^ er > f ^ sl sage f . Thisl appears ^ i i ^ n ^ u ^ f K ^ confessed , ivith Very ' * $ H > gtoci % ** when consid ^ r ^ tf asa trait W *^ tft ^ departed spirit bf ftoitfK ' ^ > E # t mentable itt&mii ^ voblH " Ht '* Bfe ^ lf we were to se ^ r ^ ti in < teli * i fefeyfend the limits of the Society p&PffeBfa for vital Chri ^ tiaiitt ^ bf r ^^ ct bility of chamtter ; arjtjd 't : 'Mnc&

    not which would most demand out pity , the ignomaee or'tbvbfgcfttpy of that Individual ^ wh 6 edtlitf-fet a moment entertain such arcbn * tracted idea ; so that it is possible for a Matthews and a RatJvBone to be ornainents to humiitt naturV , and yet not to be of the samf ? seritirnients as the-Friends , &ri& * tfya £ they ; were not their conclitct h& ^

    * Monthly Review i 8 p 7 t . vol . 5 » ,. p . » 4 io , 411 . > < t Sec Bevans ' s Defence of the Christian jDoctrine of the -Society rf Pncfed ^ &c P- ^ 3 and ^ 4 .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1808, page 145, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2390/page/25/