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    peeaehefs , Abre ** ie & by Mr . Wesley , abandoned the chapel . Mr- Atlay uas fair from being aft unconcerned st > e crator of these , as he judged ,

    arbitrary proceedings of Mr . Wesley and those who acted under him . He had previously engaged to the trustees and their party , that if the chapel was actually quitted by the preachers , a

    circumstance which he thought very rmprobable , he would come and supply it himself . When his purpose was known at London , the

    presiding preachers who were there , forbade him the pulpits of the chapels . Clamours against him arose very high every where . He was considered as taking part with schismatics and the

    disturbers of the peace of Israel . Many letters passed on the Dews , bury affair " , between MK Wesley and himself . These were published m a small pamphlet , and are ^ editable to Mr . Atlay ' s iridepen-< fen ? e of spirit , khd attachment to

    the cause of popular liberty in religious communities , ;/ Orf his corning to Dewsbury , he fotind a large congregation ; to Whom he preached diligently and successfully , ' according to those <* m

    m taking the charge of this people , he acted wholly disinterestedly , a ghiringevidence is , that he received HO emolument from them , except living tent-free , in an house belonging to the place of worship . Prbvidence having Messed him

    with aij inCbitie , frotn his private fortune , -- fully adequate t 6 all his wintsandthojse of his smaU family , h 6 felt himself free ,, ifidej > endent and contented , Sbin 6 articles of ttaj ^ creetf ^ Armiriiari Mettio&srn he could not approve , but had

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    . ¦ ¦ _ ? ¦ ¦ ¦ - . ¦ .,. ( . -. ¦ ' * long abandoned . Persevering unremittingly in reading and study , and being open to conviction , he became gradually mare enlighten * ed and liberal . In the process of research , he lighted ou Dr . J . Taylors Key and Commentary on the Romans . . He read / digested and , in the end , cordially embraced the leading ideas of that most valuable work . The current

    of his public discourses , of course , became strongly tinged with the sentiments he had embraced . Some of his auditors were disgusted , and forsook his ministry . He held on his way , however , and new ones soon supplied the vacancy . Fop

    more than twenty years , did he labour amongst them , and retired * at last , from the pressure of infirmity an . d disease , three or . four years since . -His place of worship was then occupied , and continues

    to be so , by the New Connection of Methodists , —rThough notsp many received his testimony , \ i \ t \ k re *« gard to the doctrine * which hfe latterly adopted , a& might have

    been expected , yet some of Jus rriore intimate friends came fully into his viewsL . By his advice and direction , a religious assembly w&s opened in Dew'sbury ,, about ayeaf

    and a half ago , tor the worship of the One God , and the maintenance of those doctrines that are corii nected with this grand article ;—* Maya double portion of the spirit of our departed Elijah , rest or > them , and raay they b £ zealou *> for the truth on the ea # th !—Mr *

    -Atlay was distinguished by ii * cl ~ lectual acquirements ^ a ^ v ?« re not low , and by moral quafkies of ^ the hi ghest pr ^ er . VLe w ^ - ^ maa ^ of ^ sini p ^ licij ^ an ^ l godJly « inr ^ cerity , * and of remarkable decision of character . The consolations

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    Obituary . —Rev . John Atfay * f 29

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1811, page 729, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2423/page/25/