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    Aerials which have fallen into my hands , and as speedily as tery uncertain health and spirits , and too certain unlettered engagements

    will permit * There is a third vvriter , of the same time , and on the same subjects , of whom I should be glad to knbw any thing authentic ; and I mention him in the hope that some of ydur readers hiay assist me . I never heard even his

    name till a few weeks ago , when I rtiet with a small 18 mo . volume

    bearing this title" The French Impostor detected , or Zach . Hbuscl tryed by the word of God , Jid cast . Wherein also the crrprs of Dr . Coward ( in his late book called Second Thoughts ) are laid open ; shewing what caiise he hath to think again : arid the Immortality of the Soul fully proved . In the form of a Tryal . By the author of JVar with the Devil , and the Travels tfTriit Godliness , " &c . —3 d edit . 1 703 .

    A friend informs me , that the author of ttie wofks just mentioned was Benjamin Keach . In this tryal , whicli might give a hint for the more fairly managed ' * Tryal

    of the Witnesses , " the prisoner is 44 indicted by . the name of Zachary Housel , of Gravel-Lane , Houndsditeh , " where he probably wtik a preacher . He is held up , as might be expected , to contempt

    and abhorrence , though I hav 6 not discovered any imputation upon his moral character . For denying that " the souls of men are immortal , " but teaching that thfcy " die with the body / ' he is suspected to be an atheist , or

    $ n encourager of such that are atheists / ' He is made to plead for pity as CQ a poor ignorant Frenchman , " ( perhaps he had been a refugee on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes ) and to crave tbe assistance of Dr . Coward as " a learned person . * Di \ C .

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    that the future life would be enjoyed on this earth reparadised , a subject which does not appear to have occurred either to Dr . Coward or Mr . Layton . From

    is brought in , premising that he cc cannot justifie all this poor man has wrote ; " referring , I suppose , to an opinion of Mr . Housel ' s ,

    u epistle to the reader , " prefixed to this Tryal , it seems that Mr . Housel , in his book entitled " Assertions , " had also thrown his arguments into the form of a TryaL The ' < height of his offend , ing" is thus described :

    cc These two things Ke and his followers do affirm , viz . i . That God made no promise to Abraham , Isaac , Jacob , Moses , David , nor to afty of the patriarchs , prophets nor apostles of our JLord Jesus Christ , that they ( that is ) their souls should go up to heaven when they dyed , % . Or that after Christ appears , and cotnes from heaven , he , with the

    saints , shall go up to heaven , they declaring that all xht future glory of the godly shall be only on the earth . " Mr . H . is said to have u published his Assertions' * about 1699 * on which " he was apprehended , and had a tryal at the Old Bailey . " On this account

    the book I have quoted is called his " second Tryal . " At the Old Bailey he was " found guilty . *' My author says , < c he recanted , acknowledging his errors / ' though he immediately adds , 4 < whether

    so or not I am not certain . " We are well advised to depend much on an enemy in appreciating our own characters , yet , in fixing the opinions or character of another ^ who can no longer speak for himself , an enemy is an unsafe guide . Though fcvr enough from an accomplice , he can be admitted only as a " king ' s evidence , " vvho is" never believed except his tale accord with more * credible testimony . N . L . T .

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    Writers on Materialism . — Letter I . \ %

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1811, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2412/page/11/