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    * To the Editor of the Monthly Repository ,

    SIR , I request you to ifcsert in your liberal publication the following letter , not included in Mr . Flower s late edition of Robinson ' s

    works . It is taken from " The General Baptist Repository , by Adam Taylor , " which comes out half yearl y ^ in eighupenny numbers . Of its genuineness , no one

    Acquainted with Mr . Robinsprfs writings can doubt . Your ' sj A . B .

    j £ n original Letter from the Re * v . /? . Jto hinsoh , of Cambridge ) to the Jtev . D Taylor f of L on dun . Chesterton f BEAK SIR , Monday , JSdarcb * 3 » 178 9

    I received your favour of the packet last Friday evening , and now address myself to answer your queries , very briefly , because I hope shortly to have the pleasure of seeing you , and thanking you face to face .

    1 Heg my duty to father Britain , but I do not intend to preach any where in town . I shall visit London as I would Paris . Preaching exposes one to « o much company , so inany solicitations , so many refusals , or weak compliances , to so many silly censures * and in brief to so much trouble and fatigue , that I choose to rid my hands of it .

    My profound respects to good Mr . I , owdell , to whom 1 answer three things . First , I thank him for his civility respecting the committee . . Mr . Jeffries sends me all the papers , and my opinion © f the Test is published in a sermon not long since preached to all the deputies

    of the churches in this county . I am not sure whether I sent you one , and I doubt now whether Dilly has one * Secondly , I keep poring over my manuscripts , and do not regret delay , for baptism is an amazing subject , and occupies a large part" of ecclesiastical history . My first volume is of' baptism >

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    not baptists . I never knew , till lately , tfrat any had been baptized in milk ; but this , and a thousand other curious facts , go to prove that when men depart from pure scripture , no bounds are to be set to their extravagancies . Thirdly , I am ready to begin to print , whenever I can find a bookseller to take the hazard and trouble off my hands .

    My humble thanks are due to you for your sermon on the eternity of future punishment . You know 1 always admire your integrity and your Christian spirit ; but 1 think , when you survey your argument , pages 10 , 11 , from the multitude * you will see reason , as a baptist , to retract it . It is a great misfortune to be

    governed by authorities . . Lexicographers are no authority in a case of criticism ; but we have no critical learning among us . I wish our young folks would study carions of criticism ; but human creeds blast this , and tell' young men , that there is turpitude in mental error , and with this silly stuff poison free inquiry at the source .

    I am greatly obliged to you for the Minutes , &c especially for the paper concerning the foundation of your fun d * It is a sensible , well-written piece ; and it contains the sum of all I say to the particular fun dees . I am no friend to

    endowments of any kind ; and I Would have nothing to do with any , except in hope of correcting the viciosity of them . I understand the creed of the particular baptist fund , used as a test to their poor brethren , hath fallen under the censure

    of a learned gentleman in this university , in a new publication . I have nut yet seen the book . You doubt whether this be tyranny . I am so fully con * vinced of it , that . I shall never recant my opinion , and never call it by a softer name . I shall amend by adding the most foolish tyranny that ever was

    exercised . In the pope , in the first city in the world , inhabiting the most splendid palace ^ surrounded by all that nature and art call great , with a prescriptive title acknowledged' by prelates and princes , the government of conscience is a specious tyranny . Iti the reformers it was a low-life and barbarous tyranriy ,

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    ORIGINAL LETTER OF THE REV . B . KGBlNSOU ' s .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1808, page 315, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2393/page/23/