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45 i Regivm Donutn andii John Fell . "
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from the civil magistrate reli giom Toleration . Thus they virtual !? admitud his claim of intnieivncc satibfiVd lhat , instead of exactin g the heavy tribute impostd on their forefathers , he would now accent the acknowledgement of -a . pepper . corn .
Mr . Fell , from the adverts . merit concerning " Achan ' s Wedge / ' &c . attached to lm pamphlet , appears to baveSus . pected that the judgment of his opponents was , however i in per . ¦ cepiibl y , somewhat affected , « . pecially as to Dr . Stennet , hy the mysterious influence of the Regium Donum distribution . The origin and history of this grant are certainly among the fairest subjects of inquiry to Protestant Dissenters . QUERO .
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inquiry after the Regium Donum ^ I was attracted to the- manner in which truit writer ' s name is introduced ( p . 271 . ) by your correspondent , v / ho declares himself " not under royal bounty influence . " I suspect he is under sc me other influence which equally prevents him from making a just and obvious distinction .
iC John Fell" may have been a c < virulent antagonist of Mr . Farmer" on the subject of demoniacs , but why * the matter" connected with g , subject entirel y different , should therefore ? sleep with him and his adjutants in their graves /' I cannot understand . Your correspondent in a style of ambiguous charity , has indeed chosen a time peculiarly unseasonable , to consign Mr , Fell ,, as a writer , to the oblivion of his grave . The principles , not unably advocated in his
letters which I described , ( p . 225 . ) are those on which the triumphant opposition to Lord Sidmouih ' s ill-considered , though perhaps not ill-designed attempt , was so justly founded . They are the principles , by their eloquent support of which , in defiance of the statute book , the Lords Stanhope and Holland have acquired much more than senatorial reputation , even the reputation of
Men , high-minded men , Who know their rights , and knowing dare maintain . u John Fell and his adjutants /' contended , after Locke , for that religious liberty , alone worthy of the name , which comprehends the liberty of being irreligious , in the opinion of a man ' s neighbour or his magistrate , or of saying to cither , who art tkou that judgest another man ' s servant ? There . spectable writers whom Mr . Fell opposed , were content to receive
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Jigainst Mat enalism . — Letter 1 L Boston , May 24 , 1811 .
Sir , I now make my appeal to the New Testament , where I think we shall find abundant evidence that the writers were not material . ists , or , in other words , did not believe that the whole man is dissipated at dc ^ th ; and I wish it to be clearly understood that the doctrine I am endeavouring to support is simply this , that thrre is a part of man that survives ( be article of death : some indivisibl e
or indestructible princip le , wlncn does not die with the corporeal organs , but expands into a m " and improved state of being . think the Apostle Paul , i" lhe 1 5 th chapter of the 1 st Ep istk to the Corinthians , seems to ^ ° this opinion , viz . that the bod ) of man contains in itself the pn « - ciple of a new life , which deatn , instead of annihilating , serves unfold . I care not much * n .-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1811, page 454, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2419/page/6/
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