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ent that I bad no design of treating his friend ' s memory with say ^ i&tespefefc * by Bringing him into such cotnvmxy .
I hoarded a conjecture ^ for alter all it was nothing mote , that Mr * Hotriard had rested in those views of Christian truth received in a religious edt * catk > 6 j without having found leisure or
inclination , in tfee eager putfsait of his favourite objectfs , to subject his eaiiy-irnfcibed creed to the examination of his maturer judgment , Such characters , deficient neither is general knowledge nor
m exemplary piety 5 your correspondent will , I believe , a ] low to have been by no > means rare amo * rg divines and laymen in tfce days ei Ho ^ vaW / if they are iiot to be found at present , when , in religion , as Burke complained respecting politic ^ l € every thing must be dfWctissed . ** To such character I have no doubt that many of youir elder readers , like teyself , will griatfcfolly own themselves to havt be ^ n indebted for
that invaluable benefit , an introduction to the paths of knowledge and for bright examples of . virtue , tfee charity that edifieth , without which knowledge o&ly piiffeth tip . That Mr . Howard " imbibed
tbe system which is commonly called moderate Calvinism , as taught by Watts and Doddridge , *' and that , as a natural consequtnee , * he preferred to conitrb - veraiai sermon ? , sueh as were
devotional and practical , fteqncnting the ministry < yf Dt . SteBnrtt /' i ^ n 4 Mn TbwnSeiid ^ itien who bore their orthodoxy me ^ ly ^~ tMs re * prt scutation by nt > m * atis invali . dates my conjecture , that he i had not pushed religious iiu 4 | wiri ^ teyofcd tlw A * wmbJ /«
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Calechis ^ /? whe ^ e CalvMst % high and moderate ^ equaily profess t <^ finA ^ Nei ^ J ^ iste ^ Nor cati i HcGwe ^ asa
decisive proof of Mr . Howard ' s liberality , ^ if it respect his creed , that I > r . Price was among his most intimate friends . Happily , common objects of public utility and endearing private connections
incline jarring religionists to walk together usque ad upas ^ wher £ one turns aside to worship after tfce way that they call hereay , and the other , perhaps , to thank God that he is not as other inen
are . As ^ Mr HoWard ^ s design © f eommitting his soil ' s education to the late Mr . Walker , I could name a respectable irierchant , as much attached as any man tD the objects of those Christian ^ who have assumed the epithet of evan . gelical ) whose sons are educated by an avowed UnitoTian . Though 1 have thus ettdeaffcuiw ed tct justify the plausibility , or , at Jeast , to slew the inoiFensiye d « &ign of my cmtjwinrey your correspondent ' s worcl is quite
enough to Satisfy me that it was * nothing more . It gives me sincere pleasure now to regard Mr . Howard as one who , rejecting human authority , practised and promoted free inquiry in religion . I also
thank youy correspondent for the interesting particular ^ concerning his friendj which I feel some gratification in thinking , might neve * have appfeared ip your ttepo 9 $ tor J but for my supposed offence , N . L . T-
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On the late discovery with regard ta the Human Pulse * Sim , 'Batkj « S Jan . i 8 U * Permit me to acknowledge my
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10 S On the late Discovery with regard to the Human Pulse *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1811, page 102, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2413/page/38/
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