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became a Tegular attendant on p ilt j lic Worship in his " cbapei , " a { nrcotristatnce strangely overlooks by ^ a Journalist , - ( Mon . Mai ; . 31 24 '^ , ) Who attributes to the lau Duke 2 b pamphlw ,, from * vhich he
makes large iiiappliOiblH quotations , fivery one who has read jf peleutherus , must know that it depreciates , public worship , and recommends solitary . rather than social religion . To Mr . b % >
sertnoti we also owe the / following interesting extract * from * a small Collection of papers , printed for the Duke ^ s family , and a few friends /* to which we have already alluded .
K Let not , any of ray friends * , tny acqu&intanee , oar , if I may be allowed , the utorid m general , . imagine that I could raesumfe to embrace a form of public worship , differing essentially from that < # ¦' the cftnarcb m which I v * a $ bred * without'motives considered to be
sufficient to jjAfttify my conduct . I am aware of all the responsibility which falls updn me , ta . my own account , as v / elIas © n-that-ef others , An 4 ; if I had done this hastily , through levity , or without Uiat consideration and ample tnvesiigattbn vrhicii so awful a decision requires , ^ without a full persuasion that marry titt&tfptural doctrrnefe * atid errors were
mamUMR& ajud maintained , in the articles , &c- of that church , I should , infleod st ^ nd chargeable with a very high ' oflfeoce . " ' u ¦ . ¦ - ¦ . 1 / . *< l&ttt , a& I can solemnly aver , that lAoyfc acted , horei < % h . e sincere conviction of my owni mind , 1 "flatter myself that I shall stancl ' -acquitted , at least , in the ^ trmui oh of those to -whom I am best
lttittWn * Tlftlt thcresporisibilty I have tiOMJ ? i qi > jpysc \ £ weighs often oa my m ^ ru " l ^ and is mixed wich no small de « g reeof alarrh , f will not riretend to deny . siSSi ^; Wfate h I ( iofttpate what \ do feel , tPWhtWhat I , sbiMlML have Bufterctl , had
I VBftfxjt ^ gairifll t )^ e coriviction of my tod ao 4 hcart ^ a a point , so essential or ; my OTtJr to Cod ariti man , tfind a &ftjrfort atand rcHrf , v / hkh the whole iM ^ tttt& ld ftbt , ia tbet ^ t licr caje ^ b ^ v e tt&b&AA& im& ., tA < % ' * Howcyex , I bom daily to lament . akd J ik > xcgr ^ vtmtitt * most 'Saitte *
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* r ^ v , thar-T turned not my-tlsofmk |§ more seriously to relig on , and par ^ ct !* larly to all ' tha r related t- that of Christ unt 1 I h d k » st bo many of the bS d ; -, ys of y ife in the pursuits ot evJrf senscle * s diss . patron of the times . Or ij an ndv igence of-the fashionable vices of the a , e .
" Happv shall I be , rf by anythn ? which has fallen from , oi may fall fro ^ me , I should be instr ; imental in loosing others to an earlier Httachrnent to the pure religion of the g ^ sptl and to ' remember tiieir Creator in the days of their youth , while the evil days come
not , nor the years draw nigh , whenthey shall say theyba e . no pleasure ia them . Although a thorough change of disposition and of conduct has brought an inexpressible comfort to my mind , yet let no one imagine that 1 possess the same confelence which I
know I should have felt , could 1 ha \ e viewed the days of my youth , even with as little reproach as I trust I hare passed my latef years . -Of this one truth , however , let all young person * rest assiired , that f they are reasonably
satisfied with themselves as they are , they woul < f become infinitely mrnre truly tappy , by drawing from the precept * of the gospel the rule for their conductthrough Lte » And I may declare that i'h an advanced age , I ani now en ' joyirig
so much more sojid comfort , by trtrst ** i » g to the mercy 6 i God through the gospel of his Son , than I ever did iij the days of my follies v Nor would 1 exchange if for any cdnditidn of youtli ^ wealth , or worldly joys , aicoraftattted by a vicious conr » e , * . ci
My , intercourse vcith the world rai $ 7 ed in me a suspicion , which the ohsefr vation of every fay cotifirrfied , that man / persons , in the more elevated i * anl * of 4 iftf especiall y ^ had littte or rj 6 ^ fafclifif lia $ & trut ^ hs of the Christian religion . Thi * suspicion increased ray desire to exanyflC with anprejudice : d ^ ttentil oti the' pft nciples on which tfts tmstn b £ GhrfetJa * ri * f tQ
wi $ said to be fdunded . Brom'tBet ^ r niinatioti I ^ a vf a 1 > and ant reaso ^ . cop * cludejttaVthe / CbrisVi ^ uifiligi ^ mulgated to mankind b ' y a p ^ r ofi seat by , arid acting cifidter , the ^ a «< horhy <
the Supreme Creator and Pr server :, W the nniyerse . it w ^« » 1 ^> apparen t ^ me j tJb ^ t tbfo religion Jhad t > eea corru ^^ ed fiorn very j early time *; by v ^ ?^ ni ^ tttisi and that t % cfe cotftxptioni WiW ute&tenf or&mripl a * to > i > f # t ^ ^» m
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9 iS - Obituary . —Duke of { $ rtiftott *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1811, page 248, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2415/page/56/
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