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The congregation were in general { attached to n Very different system of belief ( being probablyy with their elder minister , what would now be called High Arians , and
spine , perhaps , believers in the doctrine of the Trinity ^) yet few , comparatively , were offended with the freedom of his address ^ and by far the greater part esteemed him
still more for the sincerity and magnanimity of his conduct . A few worthy members of the society requested Mr . Mottershead to remonstrate with his son-in-law on
his laying so much stress on speculative opinions ^ and on tl ) e probability of his thereby doing more harm thaii good . Mr . Seddon entered into a close but
friendly discussion with Mr . Mottershead , who returned with the frank and ingenuous acknowledgment , that he had not only not
succeeded in convincing his sonin-law of his error , but had been almost convinced by him that he was right . An instance of great candour and liberality at a very advanced age .
For somne . years before his death , 3 xe was afflicted " with a . severe in * disposition , which brought him $ o his grave Nov . 22 , 1 T ^ 9 » Wh en Ihe hour of death approached , $ ome narrow-minded zealots took
ki opportunity of being introduced to him , with an expectation that he would sink in the time of trial , and retract his former opinions . PeTceiving the drift of their inquiries , he smiled with conscious superiority ^ declared that the doctrines which he had
preached appeared to him with imdiminifthed evidence , and assured them that he derived the ittost powerful consolation from
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having givea them his public tapport / ,:-Soon after his death , the Course of Sermons above-mentioned were put into the bands of several
neighbouring ministers : but , whether from a dislike of the doctrine they inculcated , or from a fear of giv ^ ing offence ^ they declined having any concern in their publication .
They were , however , much read in manuscript , and contributed to promote an attention to the proper Unitarian doctrine in tjie minds of many * About the year 1790 , Dr . Toulmin , being on a
\ 15 it to hjs son , then a minister at Chewbent , a large village- t ^ lye miles from Manchester , obtained a copy , and also of a course of Sermons on Self . Deception ; both
of which were published in l 7 S | f 5 in a I 2 mo . volume , at the expense of the London Unitarian Society , with a Memoir of the Author h > y thej Rev , R . Harrison ; frpm wjiich , and from Dr . Toulmin ' s valuable Life of Mr . Bourn * mp&t of tlie
above particulars have been takco . They met with a very tavourabfe reception ^ and have now bee ^ for several years out of print . Anew edition would probably be wry acceptable * 1734 .
4 * -Bekjamin Peile * Settled for a short time at Kes * wick \ afterwards removed to He ^ ham ^ where he died in 17 . U 0 . A man ot ajniable manners , and
great knowledge , particularly ia natural history : a correct and elegant composer , but a very unpopular preached . 1735 .
5 # ^ SXKEET . Settled at Macclesfield , \ vher < t he died about 17 & 7 *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1810, page 323, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2406/page/3/
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