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there a fortnight longer , he would have been accepted upon his own terms , and been appointed a Principal of the College . Such is fre - quently the course of human affairs . B . afterwards travelled into Maryland , where he preached in a quondam Episcopalian Church , using his own prayers , and declaring to n numerous audience what he believed to be the doctrines of the New Testament . He plight probably have settled there , had not some difficulties arisen
concerning an Unitarian liturgy , and bad he not been seized with a violent fever , which brought hira to-the brink of the grave . During his illness , he received the most
Christian treatment ; and the most generous and affectionate hospitality at the house of a Mr . Earl , for whom and his son-in-law , an excellent physician , he has ever since retained the most grateful and heart-felt remembrance .
In the succeeding winter , he preached a series of sermons on the evidences for the truth of Christianity , at the Common Hall of the University of Philadelphia , which , to the honour of America ,
is open to all preachers , to whatever sect they belong . At first the place was well filled . But afterwards , through the artifices of those who never attended , the audience was greatly diminished , though Dr . Ewing from his pulpit had strenuously recommended the lecture to his hearers . Dr .
Carson , a medical gentleman , was anxious to have the sermons published , and offered to this purpose to procure 500 subscribers . But B with grateful acknowledgments declined the proposal , as his compHiiuce woujd have detained him
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longer at Philadelphia than he then wished tQ continue there . Before he left the place however , he published Dr . Priestley ' s Appeal , &c . to which he prefixed three short addresses of hi $ own . It was purposely contrived that this ^ piece should be ready for sale on the first da } r of the meeting of the Synod . Some alarmists accordingly , having heard the awful tidings , introduced the subject into their venerable body , which was considered of such high importance , that it occupied their
whole attention during ^ wo days of their sitting . At last , Dr , Sprout madeN ' a motion / to address a printed circular letter to thei r respective flocks , to introduce intQ the letter extracts of all the here
sies contained in the book , and solemnly to guard their hea rer ^ against the reading of it , -The I ) r . was seconded by a learned auctioneer belonging to hU Church . But Mr ; Lynn , already noticed , and the father pro . %
bably of Dr . Lynn , Dr . * Priestley ' s feeble antagonist , seeing farther into the consequences of such a measure than Dr . Sprout , op *
posed the motion , shrewdly ob-, serving , that such a letter would awaken a general curiosity , and instead of suppressing the heresy would spread it far and near , and be the occasion of driving those
very persons into heresy whom they intended to guard against it . But though Mr . Lynn carried his point , his arguments did iu > % seem conclusive to all his breV thren . For , one clergyman , who lived 150 miles from
Philadelphia , returned home so . lull of th , subject , that he preached tho whole' of the following Sunday against ( ho heresy , and earnestly
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State of Rational Religion in Amtficb . 305
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1808, page 305, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2393/page/13/
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