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Anecdote of a Quaker who pas misled by the Inward Light . 475
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ANECDOTE OF A ^ QUAKER WHO WAS MISLED BY THE INWARD LIGHT .
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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
Hackney Road sir , July 4 y 1 SO 8 . I have read your correspondent ' s letter , signed I . B , in the last Repository , ( p . 317 ? ) on the
inward light of the people culled Friends , and though I have no intention of entering into the arguments made use of by this writer ., I cannot help saying ? that I think it high time that the Quakers themselves should be made ashamed of continuing to avow these pretensions .
In order to contribute my mite towards this desirable end , I herewith send you an anecdote , which is very much at your service .
In the reign of Charles th-c "d , it was customary for the speakers among this sect to travel from town to town iu order to debate in the parish churches with the ministers , on their own peculiar
doctrines . At this time / a celebrated Quaker took a journey from London to Kidderminster , in Worcestershire , in order to debate wiih Richard Baxter , who was then the settled minister of that placeJ
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On the Saturday evening he arrived in the town , and on the Sunday morning as the congrega ^ tion was assembling in . the church , this redoubted champion of the
Quakers , covered with his broad brim , walked up the aisle with great solemnity , and seated him * self directly opposite the pulpit . The service was conducted as usual , the audience was large and respectable , and r as the minister concluded his discourse , the
puissant disputant , flushed with the hope of victory , rose in the face of the congregation to impugn the opinions they had just heard , and addressed the pulpit in the following terms . 4 CI am moved by the spirit of God , to tell thee Richard Baxter , that thou do ' st
not preach sound doctrine . " " I rise friend / ' replied the minister 64 to-tell thee that thou art not moved to this by the spirit of God , but art moved by a lying spirit , for my mime is not Richard Baxter . " Unfortunately for this inspired saint , Mr . Baxter was \ at this time confined to hh h ou ^ e
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» nd speaketh of tlie earth , " but , 4 C he that cometh from heaven , " he who is entrusted with a di > ine commission , " ib above all * " By which contrast , upon this interpretation of these phrases , John is made to disclaim what has
never been disputed respecting him , what was predicted of him , and what this evangelist expressly asserts concerning him , that " he
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was a man sent from God / ' This therefore cannot be the meaning of those phrases .
With these observation * I shall close this letter , reserving the more full and decisive evidence in support of the doctrine jn question to a future commu& £$ a « . tion * ; And am , Sir ,
Your ' s , ' &fc . JOHN MARSOM .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1808, page 475, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2396/page/19/
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