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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository *
sir , liar low , May 6 , l 80 fc . In your last number , j perceive , Mr . Palmer has •* remarked a few things which , " he is of opinion , 4 t require animadversion in the Memoirs of the Lite of Mr .
Robinson , " prefixed to the edition of his miscellaneous works . After perusing Mr . Palmer ' s letter , I beg leave to observe , that if those < c things" he has noticed are all that " require animadversion , " i « hall indeed felicitate myself on having published -what is as free
from error as' / ihost human writings . Notwithstanding Mr . Pnlmor * s * animadversions , " I am still firmly of opinion , that I have
cast no ** unjust or injurious censure , " on the advice so indefinitely and injudiciously given by the late Mr . Orton to a young minister , respecting the " matrimonial connexion /* I am still persuaded jut was calculated to give 1 m wrong hias to the- minds of . young ministers in general . To prove that I am by no means singular in my opinion , I refer your readers to the review of Mr . Orton ' s Itijtters in the Monthly
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Repository for June , 1806 ; in which the reviewer remarks as follows : — Young dissenting mi * nisters will doubtless profit by his counsels of prudence , though if they be of a generous constiti / * tiotiy or a romantic cast of mincK
they may , possibly think that his prudence is sometirhes worldly . ** Mr . Palmer proceeds to observe : — 4 < If Mr . Flower had aU tended to the note subjoined to the passage on which he has animadverted , or to the following letter , he would have seen that his censure of Mr . Orton was groundless , and that his advice was superfluous . " Now , Sir , I beg leave to add , that there does not appear to be any thing in either the note or the letter referred
to , which tends in any degree , render the ¦ ' « censure groundless ; ' * and as to the hints I took the liberty of suggesting , Mr . Palmer , on reflection , will scarcely pronounce them 4 * superfluous j more especially as he affirm * , 44 I have reprobated the plan of making money a principal object in the choice of a wife , with Just severity / 9 The " note
sub-•* . • * The-writer subjoins this note . * ' How much better does it fare with Tritheism io England ! which though it lost its hea 4 at , ifcr » , lifts up its head as high a $ PauJ \ J )? r < r . " ' Referr ing to Dr . Sherlock then Dean of St . Paul ' s ; iatinlating $ &at Kc w ^ uid have liked to see it somewhat lowered .
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312 Mr . Flower ' s Reply to Mr . Palmer , on the Life df Mr . Robfason .
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? ttied . Then again did he discover his falsehood and treachery , as having been Still used to appropriate the appellation of God to the person of the Fattier only . - 'And in this horrid blasphemy he still persevered , the whole assembly
that stood by praying to God that he would change his mind , and vre continually exhorting him to repentance , he had his life * taken from him by the just judgment of God , and so his life and blasphemies ended together , "
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ant . rrowtit's KEnv to ml palmer , on the life of Mil . HOBINSON *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1808, page 312, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2393/page/20/
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