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party , it seems , carefully draughted from what Mr . Wesley calls his classes and bands . " Thus , Sir , you see that A . C . is not the first of his faith and
order , who exhibited a curious baptism ; yet I think , too , that the disciple is above the master in point of extravagance and folly . I am , Sir , no IVe&leyan , as I need not say when I subscribe my . self COMMON SENSE .
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A Sermon of Dr . Priestley ' s . Sik , May 10 , 1811 . Some readers of your valuable publication have thought a paragraph in the Universal Magazine for April last , page 316 , worthy of a place in the Monthly
Repository . If you are of the same opinion , the perusal of it there will be a compensation for the trouble
of copying to , Sir , Yours ,
W . TRELEAVEN . < c Dr . John Reid has lately observed , on the ground that insane persons are in general the favourite subjects of their own conversation , and , of course , of
their silent thoughts , that nothing' can be so likely to endanger , in case of any adverse occurrence , the stability of reason , as this miserable absorption in self ; he adds , An admirable sermon of the
late Dr . Priestley ' s on the Duty of Not Living to Ourselves , if the principles of it were properly digested and assimilated into the habit , would prove a better preservative against the malady of mental derangement , than any prophylactic that is to be found amidst the precepts of moral , or the prescriptions of medical science . "
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Liberality of Catholic Colonizers . In the year 1632 , Lord Baltimore foreseeing a storm rising against the Roman Catholics in England , obtained a grant of lands
in North America , now known as the province of Maryland * He wasa conscientiousCatholic , and was induced to attempt this settlement in America ^ in hopes of en-
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joying liberty of conscience for himself and for such of his friends to whom the severity of the Jaw * might loosen their ties to their
country and make them prefer an eas y banishment with freedom to the conveniencies of England , cm . bittered as they were by the sharp . ness of the laws and the popular odi .
urn which hung over them . " The court , indeed , was favourable to the Roman Catholics , but the laws were against them , and the tyrannies of the court had so weakened it in popular estimation that , so far from being able to protect
its friend ^ it was not able to de . fend itself . cC The settlement oi the colony cost the Lord Baltimore a large sum . It was made under his auspices by his brother , and about 200 persons , Roman Catholics , and most of them of
good families . As the court party declined in England and the Roman Catholics came to be more rigorously treated , numbers con-j stantly emigrated to replenish the . settlement . On the triumph of
the Parliament over the kwii , Lord Baltimore was displaced ami a new governor appointed , first by the Parliament and afterwards by the Protector . The Restoration
reinstated Lord Baltimore inhi | rights and possessions , " ami hi * Lordship , willing that as f * ** M as possible should enjoy tlx ^ M Jts of his mild and equitable odM ministration , gave his co nsent J an act of assembly , which he mm before promoted in Ms proW <*§ for allowing a free and wlm ^ * toleration for all 'who professed f AJ Christian Religion , of uhat ^ l denomination . This liberty , wbicj was never in the least instil violated , encouraged a great nunJ ber . not only of tiie Church * l
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594 Liberality of Catholic Colonizers
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1811, page 594, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2421/page/18/
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