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cautioned his hearers never to look into so poisonous a book . This proceeding so whetted their curiosity , tfyat the very week after they had 57 copies of it imported into their township . So well founded was the remark of Air .
Lynn . Jn short , the labours of B . laid the foundation of Unitarianism in that country , behaving 'left behind him sonie warm friends to the cause wherever he went . At PhilaJelphia , he was much attached to the Vaughan family , to Dr . P-wing , professor Mr . James Daviclson , Dr . Carson , Mr . Jus *
tice T ? ush , Mr . Tenche Coxe , General Irvine , Mr . Porter , &c . who treated him with brotherly affection . Thtfre was only one man there of whom he complained ,
who , upon his first introduction to him , paid him some fulsome flattory , iand expressed his anxious wish that they could have many such men in that country . This was the celebrated Dr . Ru&h , who afterwards told him that he was satisfied with the religion of his ancestors , and abused Dr . Ewfng for the friendly regards he had shewn him .
Bereanus afterwards proceeded to Boston , as we have already seen . He preached repeatedly there the Thursday ' s Lecture , and to many congregations in that city , lie also preached at Dorchester , Jamaica Plain , Woymouth , Marshficld ^ Scituate , Providence , Salem , Halnwell ,
&c . At Old Hingham , where the venerable Mr . Gay was thp pastor , he preached above forty times , and the noble-minded general Lincoln was o *\ e of his 1200 lioar ^ rs . This congregation was founded l 6 ' 35 . They , with their minister , tied iVom tbc persecu-
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tion of the detestable house of Stuart , and settled in this place which was then a '¦ wilderness . What is very remarkable is , that from that period until the year 1786 , the jspace of 151 years ,
this congregation had only three ministers , the last of them , Mr . Gay , 'having been their pastor above 70 years . The friendl y and enlightened Mr . Shutc was the minister of New Hingham , and Dr . Barnes the minister of
one of the Marshfield Churches , who was also a liberal man . Many other Churches might be mentioned , from which the Calvinistic gloom is gradually dispersing . But , I must
particularly notice Salem , There was there one thoroughdox congregation , which was not in a very flourishing state . There were also three large congregations , where Unjtarian ministers were generally
heard with acceptance . One of these , indeed , became-wholly Unitarian in . a little time , through the fearless and indefatigable la * hours of Mr . Benfley , a very learned man . and an unbiassed
and strenuous advocate for what appeared to him to £ > e the good word of truth according to the gospel . The two others were
mostly Arians . Mr . Barnard , ai > hospitable , open-hearted man , who readily entered into the circumstances of a stranger , was the minister of the second of these
churches , and had so well in-, structcd his flock , that nothing " was offensive to them which appeared to flow from an honest mind . Mr . Darby , a rich merchant , rendered the ' third respectable by his courteous and "bountiful" disposition . B . often preached to these congregations ' , and was treated \ vi ^
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306 Stale of Rational Religion in America .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1808, page 306, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2393/page/14/
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