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that my statement was not true , 44 on the authority of a very
respectable correspondent at Exeter , and after a careful examination of his circumstantial narrative ot that event / ' comes to this
conclusion— " that Mr . Edwards lost his life while he was bathing . " Now Mr . Editor , I must ask your candid waders , whether after perusing my statement , they did not come to the same
conclusion ? For what did I state ? Why , that Mr . Edwards found a momentary benefit from the water , and that bathing led to his death ! It is true , I stated further , that Mr , Edwards left his home
labouring under a mental disease ; and this is what I first supposed upon reading Mr . Kentish ' s letter , that he meant to doubt ; but up-
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on referring to his sermon on the same melancholy event , ( lately
published , ) I find that he not only admits this , but much more , by saying that u the seeds of this grievous malady appear to have been sown in his ( Mr . Edwards ' s ) constitution . "
I am therefore really at a loss to divine , what could be Mr . Kentish ' s motive in impeaching my veracity , and I am com * pelled , ( unwillingly I own , ) to
resort to this mode of justifying myself , hoping that after having admitted Mr . Kentish ' s letter , vour candour will not refuse this mJ
a place in your next number . I am , Sir , Vour obliged servant , JOHN MORTIMER ,
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Mr . E ^ d < yejt € 9 % on the Unitarian Society , Philadelphia . 64 &
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MR . EDDOWES , OF AMKUICA , ON THE UNITARIAN SOCIETY , PHILADELPHIA .
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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
Philadelphia , sin , August 26 \ 1808 . Your Repository for May lias just now reached me , in which , under the department of " Intelligence , " &c . I find some strictures upon the code of
Regulations adopted b y t \\ vjin > t society of Unitarian Christians in this c ^ ty . The complexion- of these strictures is such , that as a member of the society , and of the committee appointed to prepare and report those Regulations for their consideration , I feel myself constrained to take some notice of them .
In the fourth paragraph , which wears a surprising air of inconsistency with the rest of the arti-
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cle , it is observed , that * the rules reduce the authority of the pastoi ; to a degree , to which few ministers on this side the Atlantic
would stoop . " If your Intelligencer be an Episcopalian , either catholic or protestant , it is consistent in him to hold the doctrine of an authority originally inherent in the clerical character , and
to stigmatize us as having profanely combined to pull it down . We know well enough upon wjiat ground it is thought lo stand , and we do not wonder that any rclin *
quishrnent of its imaginary prerogatives should suggest -the idea of stooping . But if he be a Dis-2 K ntor and of course the professed advocate of religious liberty *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1808, page 643, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2399/page/7/
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