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Dr . Lurdtter ' s Monument . 4 ! £$
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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
sir , August 9 , 1808 . Your readers are much obliged to Mr . Evans for his information in the last number , ( p . 364 . ) It might , 1 think , be supposed from
the inscription , that Lardner was buried at Hawkherst , where he died . The fact is that he was buried at Bunhiil Fields , where his tomb , a few years since , from its ill construction , had become
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DR . LARMER ' S MONUMENT .
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literally in ruins . This circumstance being mentioned to that opulent and libei-alminded merchant , the late Mr . Isaac Sollej , he immediately directed it to be restored at his sole expense .
There is an interesting account of the rjenth and funeral of Lardner wriiien by the Rev . Dr . CFleming to the Rev . Mr . VVichc % of Maidstoue . Your correspon-
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t-he thing * and hy transferring the whole cause of Christianity from the \ vi . *< s and pious few to the ignorant and wicked miiKUude ,
who , being supposed Christians ^ interfere in religion , derange the community , invade the offices , and convert the whole into a worldly corporation . " If there be any truth in this reasoning , the practice
alluded to must be detrimental to personal religion , and to the rational exercise of the mind on ihe most important occasion — the choice of our religion . Can gentlemen who practise the rile of infant baptism , and who do not
believe that it is taught in scripture , be justified in pleading the " antiquity of the practice , " and the " authority of the fathers /' that it ** can do no harm , " and
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' that to " discard it all at once might too violently shock people ' s prejudices / ' when they then \ seIveS disregard all such reasoning in behalf of , those orthodox doctrines
which they oppose ? This is the inconsistency of which we complain ; they admit in the one case what they rcj' ct in , the other , although the force of the
arguapostolic church ; their authority is as good in the one case as in the other ; but to be admitted in neither , if the scriptures be the sole rule of our faith and practice . I am , Sir , your ' s , A Consistent Christian .
ment and the justness of the application in both instances are precisely the same . The fathers were just as likely to know the doctrines , as the practices of the
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* Mr . Wiche , was a very respectable minister among the General Baptists , who died in 1794 , aged 76 . He had " embraced the Arian hypothesis , till" in 1760 / " reading Dr . Lardner ' s Letter on the JLag , j , which had been pub iahied the year before , he was so impressed with the ar / ument , a- > soon at ' trr to adopt the sentimen t it Was designed to prove , " and from this time becameacoi . espondent of the author * *? . *• When he met with Dr . L . ' s Discourses on the Three Schemes of ' a "Trinit y ^ he ' rejoiced like a man who had found a treasure , and transcribedthem with the n > ost exact fidelity pare for page , "and Ji ; ic for line ; no p * ge nor line ^ of his copy , containing more or les . than the corresponding pnes in the MS ., ffcv woyld l > a , y £ niade a fac simile of them , if it had been in his power , but he had his copy elegantl y bound in blue turkey , with gilt edged . " This minute admiration \ Vs *>
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1808, page 485, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2396/page/29/
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