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youth jtbe benevolence of friends through life ; all ! all ! provided and bestowed by the hand of a bountiful Father ! praised be his name
Look to the page of revelation , where the sunshine of divine mercy appeared in its full glor y If God ' s word , aath , miraculous works may be believed , you may , without hesitation , confidently resign your breath , soul and being to the hands and disposal of the Father of spirits- Nay , look forward beyond the gra \ e to a better state of being , where your Saviour is gone / and where his disciples shall soon follow , where the weary shall rest from his labour , where the Tirtuous shall all meet , and be
rendered more virtuous , where benevolent souls shall spend an eternity , in the enjoyment of peace , love and friendship . I remain , with the sincerest sympathy and affection , Your faithful brother , - DA . DAVIS .
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Defence of Mr . Toplad y * Plymouth Dock ) Mr . Editor , April 11 91811 * Some ill-natured remarks on Mr . Toplady , having lately
appeared in the Monthly Repository , I beg the favour of submitting to you a few observations respecting them . Being one of your subscribers , and a decided friend to the cause you so ably advocate , I wish the Repository ever to be kept free from that puerile subterfuge , of displaying all its opponents in sables . To be frequently bringing forward the little flaws of
eminent nqen , because they happened to thank differently on religious subjects , as is the case with many of yovir contemporaries , can , I atyi persuaded , answer no bpneiicial purpose whatever . Unita-
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rians , no doubt , have their failing as well as Calvinists and others ? but mutual candour ought always to distinguish th < e professed disciples of Christianity .
Mr . Toplady , in his polemic efforts , it is granted , dealt too freely in satire ; but he was certainly provoked to it by the dis . ingenuous conduct of Mr . Wesley , No one of a warm constitution ,
like Toplady , could have felt otherwise than he did , h ) ad the same liberties been taken with any of his wotfks , as Mr . Wesley took with his pamphlet on the Doctrine of Absolute Predestination . In
order to render the tenets which Mr . T . espoused as odious as possible , Mr . W , printed a mangled abridgment of this piece , on a twopenny sheet , and secretly circulated it among his societies and notwithstanding the senti - ments of the author were distorted
from their original meaning , he published it as coming immediate . ly from Mr . T ' s o * vn hand . It concluded with these memorable words . —" The electsh&ll besaved
do Avhat they will , and the reprobate shall be damned , do what they can . Reader believe this , or
be damned . Witness my hand , A T . " Previous to this unmanly attempt , Toplady bad not written any thing against Mr . \ V . ; therefore I ask , whether the latter did not deserve the castigation he afterwards experienced . 44 In almost any other case , " says Mr . T ., " a similar forgery would transmit the criminal to Virgin '* or Maty tend , if not to Ty burn . U such opponents can be deejne honest men , where shall we loo * for a-knave 2 " From the insinuations thrown out by Crassus ( p . lb % ) . »» J who are strangers ur Mr . Topl *^
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2 * 2 Defence of Mr . Toplady .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1811, page 282, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2416/page/26/
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