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    of Mr . Freeman by his congregation , did not take place before the end of the year 1788 , and this congregation is now as flourishing

    since it has learned to say sump . simus , as it had formerly been tinder its old mumpsimus . Thus , then , 700 or 800 people , who had been accustomed to

    worship three gods , and to believe one of these , as consisting of two persons , to be in reality two gods , are now become so enlightened as to worship only the One God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ .

    But , to say something more of B ., he passed the preceding year in Pennsylvania , and Maryland . In his way from New York , he preached 5 at their request , to the House of Commons belonging to

    New Jersey . He next preached Unitarianism with acceptance , at Philadelphia , to some orthodox churches , and might have done so to this day , had not some cunning ones and busy bodies

    circulated the report that the worship of the great goddess Diana was in danger . He afterwards repeatedly preached to a numerous congregation at New London , where no exceptions were made to his

    doctrines , but handsome compliments paid to him by his principal auditors . At the particular recommendation of his truly catholic and hospitable friend Dr . Ewing ,

    he preached also at Carlisle , where there Avas then a vacancy , and an expectancy of 400 guineas a-year to the preacher who should be chosen to fill it up . But , the zealous Dr . Duffield of Philadel

    phia , had taken care to send oil his character before him as an heretic , with such additional suggestions of his own as orthodoxy usually supplies * . He therefore

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    appeared before a prejudging audience . But , after he had preached twice , the endeavours of Dr . Duffield not being deemed sufficiently efficacious , General

    Armstrong applied to a Mr . Lynn in the neighbourhood , to appear there the following Sunday , and to take a part of the services of the day . Lynn was punctually obedient to the commands of his master . He ascended

    the pulpit with rancour in his countenance . He bitterly declaimed against all heresy , and warned a thousand people who stood before him to be armed

    against the greatest danger which then threatened them , a greater danger than all the evils of the late war , the introduction of

    heresy by foreigners . Such was his modesty , forbearance , and charity , and such his rude treatment of a stranger , who , to his own hurt , had released some hundreds

    of his countrymen from a loathsome prison , and from famine . But , notwithstanding the indefatigable exertionsof Lynn , B . might have remained at Carlisle , if he would have subscribed the

    confession of faith , as jar as it was agreeable to the word of God . To this suggestion he replied , that he came there a free man , that he would continue such &s Jong as

    he lived , t ; hat he would give way to nothing which had the most distant resemblance to trimming , and that he would not even

    subscribe those things which he most firmly believed , lest he might throw a stumbling block in his brother ' s way . He therefore took his leave of his friends at Carlisle ,

    rather too hastily , it was afterwards said , as Dr . Ewing was informed , thutj if he had remain ^

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    304 ? State of Rational Religion in America .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1808, page 304, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2393/page/12/