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      482 Origin of Herders Story of the Death of Adam .

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      lOHIfilN OF HERDER ' S STORY OF THE DEATH OF AtAM ,

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      Sir , Junes , 1 S 08 . I have been highly gratified by a sight-of the ^ " scattered leaves" of Herder in yourla ^ t numbcr , ( p 252 ) In return . I send vou an extract in _ — —

      — __ j ^ _ _ — old English , which the German , though no servile copyist , must have had \ x \ recollection , in his 1 ; * e Ifeath of Adam , ^ ( p . 256 ) , unl « ss there were really any u

      ori-To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .

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      ental legends '* to which both writers might have access . A work entitled " The History of Popery" is now before me . It was published in 1735 in 2 vols . 4 to . and purports to be a

      republicatiou of ' A paper , entitled the Weekly Packet , " published fifty years before , when Popery , which this work was designed' to bring

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      If tfce society of Friends proeeed in their course of disowning fbr opinions , they will soon resemble other churches , who make uniformity of opinion the basis of admission into or rejection from them . The most distinguished for virtue and piety , those whd most resemble their Lord and

      Muster by going about and doing good , will be of the disowned , and those who remain among them will be of that abject sort , who will sign any creed they think best for their worldly advantage . Such is the case when the mode , of

      judgment prescribed by our Lord is departed from , and uniformity of opinion established in its stead . It is no wonder under these circumstances the society should be on the decline . Thousands who respected the society of Friends , and were looking towards it as a

      sanctuary , where freedom of opinion was not only tolerated , but cherished and preserved in its fullest extent , on observing their late disownments , have lament . » ed their apostacy from their

      ancient practices and turned from them with justifiable disgust . With this degeneracy in religious freedom ^ A Protestant must

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      pardon me , if I state aftutner cause for alarm , viz . that the Friends who have commonly borne so noble a Ustihiony against waY , and were formerly in the habit of presenting their petitions to the

      throne for peace , are , as a society , silent as the grave , at a time when war is carrying on with unexampled ferocity . We hear of no complaint or petition from them for peace , excepting a public lamentation in their yearly

      epistle can be so called ; though want and misery reign amongst our manufacturers , and distress and poverty are marching through the land with gigantic strides : a sufficient ground for suspicion that political as well as religious

      apostacy infects the Friends . Marvellous , indeed , Mr . Editor , are the days in which we Jivethe despots of the Continent giving perfect toleration to a troubled world—the government of Great Britain holdhig fast every

      tittle of its penal statutes against the sectaries ! and the Quakers disowning their members for matters of opinion and pleading the cause of church authority . I am , Sir , your ' s , &c R . F .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1808, page 482, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2396/page/26/