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was Bacbelar of Divinity , and « worofSutton in Surrey * .
Besides the sermon to which popularis refe ^ Mr ; Stephen * published A Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London , at St . Mary le
Bo * Jan . 3 ® , to $ 3 ; on Sam . v . 16 , " in quarto . It was dedicated to ' Sir William Ashurst Lord Mayor of London , and the court of aldermen . In answer to it ,
about the beginning of March , was published , * " A true Protestant Bridle ; or some cursory Remarks upon a § ermdn , preached before the lord Mayor * Jsi *> 30 * 1693 ; in a Letter to Sir P . IX Bart /'
1694 , in quarto , written by Tfco * mas Rogers . ( Athen . Oxon . vol . ii . p . 1199 *) Mr , Stephens was also ^ it appears , the author of a tract entitled u A Letter hiinably ad . dressed to the most excellent Father of his Country , the wise and
victorious Plince ^ jKing William HI , by a dutiful Wi ^ l well-meaning subject / 1 London , ' printed by J # Darby , 1698 , in quarto ; This was wholly political , and contai ned much excellent and sound ad . ? ice .
The sermon ,- mentioned by your correspondent ; is now before me ; the second edition , as printed in J e H vol . of " The pillar of Priestcraft' and Orthodoxy
shak-$ V _ w the edition of- * 7 < 58 > A work of which Mr * Baron , the ardent advocate of civil and re * Jffoui liberty was editor- It is Jerfc avowedly printed from the ^ « ^ genuincicoiy qf the auor- The tat oa wbich tbe dis-« ow « eis founded , is Titus iii 3-»• iSf 001101 " ^ "" ^ w- i ^ Hi ^ ^^ ^ u .
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64 Put them in mind to be sub ^ ject to principalities and powers , to obey magistrates , and to be ready to every good workm" ** In the shining conclusion / ' says Mr . Baron , " there appears the masterly hand af Mr , Treachard , the au « thor ' ^ friend . *'
On the back of the title is this Advertisement— " N . B . The Hon ~ curable jiudiiury before whom th © folloSving Serinon was prisTached , having expressed their mislike , I
never designed to have had it printed : but since it is stolen uncorrectly into the world , without my privilege I hope it will not be imputed as a crime , that I amend the errata
of the press . Will . Stephens ^" It is obvious , from this advertisement , that the Sermon had excited attention , and that the first edition was surreptitious . High .
churchmen ^ we are informed * were so much exasperated against the author of it , that , such is the malignity of party spirit , they raised and propagated a shameful I 15 of his being obliged to / fee from Bristol for an unnatural cfime *
This calumny originated with a clergyman ; but satisfactory proof of its falsehood was laid before the Archbishop of Canterbury , by a respectable and worthy member of Parliament .
At a time when , it may be feared , apathy and vettality have greatly diminished -tt ' c force , if they have n <> t generally annihilated a sense of the constitutional
principles of liberty , information and enquiries , such as POFU L a ais has given and requested , mity be useful to bring up to review the just and generous sentimQfcts , con . ccrning the rights at the people which in fo tkmawicrt * iuitow w «»
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Dr ± Tbvlmin ' s Account of Mr * Stephens . 66 ?
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1811, page 657, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2422/page/17/
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