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p £ ble of answerin g ^ in a satisfactory manner : " Pray , roamioa , what has ttbe clergy man been talking of today ? tie said , The Father is God , \ he Son is God . and the
Holy Ghost is Qod ; and yet they are not throe Gods , hut one God . JIpw c % n tfyte (> € ? . I Francis , and i $ y two brothers , Arthur and Daniel , are three boys . Can we three boys he jumbled together in-9
to one boy V Exclusively of the advantages which , as a yoi } U * f I received from personal visits to 5 and occasional episfplary correspondence with , my uncle , on my election off from Charterhouse , as captain of that excellent public
seminary , to University College , Oxford , I owed my knowliedge of Hebrew to his kind recommendation of me to the notice of the Rev , Dr * Thomas Hunt , then Regius Professor of Hebrew in that University . The Professor , in his friendship for my uncle , with
gratuitous generosuy , instructed me ifi the language . When I was of age to take orders , my uncle gave me what is called a titie by appointing me his curate of Crawley ,
on whicb r ^ tory he jesided * and of Hunton , a chapel of ease , annexed to it . During nay clerical connection with Mr . Taylor , I recollect thai he lamented to me
that a necessary church ~ reform wa « obstructed by church-autho * Vtojjfr ; but that lie thought it pro . hibje I might live to be Ux > instfuioent io removing that obsta * ele . It is worthy of remark , that
hot loqg before his death ^ I had ^ dres ^ ed a letter to hittj ^ represeating , that I flattered mybelf , that the good seed he bad s » wn in tey tiritid I tjikd duly cultivated , % ^ V ; ^ % * # 9 ^ ^ P i ^ f P > 0 enJww Iwww ^ rt 0 fruit . tp n de *
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gree of luxuriancy , he might perhaps think , which might require amputation . I added , in short , that the di&ciple had outstripped his master in what is calLed heresy ,
being now more of a heresiarch than a heretic , having renounced the pseudo-miracle of the Virgin * ^ conception , and re-instated Joseph in the honour of being the father of Jesus of Nazareth , our Lord
and Master Christy or God ' s Me « - siahj of the seed ai David , promised to the Jews . In consequence of this letter , it was settled by hi , that I should make him a visit in the ensuing summer . But alas ! before the time arrived for my de ~
parture , my uncle was seized with the sickness which soon terminated in his death . And now , Sir , sheading a fresh tear to the memory of my uncle , and referring ygj * for a more circumstantial
biogtaphy of him to his two sons , and for a correction of any involuntary error J may have committed in my narrative , I have the honour to bef Your obliged attd obedient Servant , FRANCIS S TONE ^
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_ ir-in Historical Accovnt of 4 ht Waffrington Academy . [ Continued from p . 231 . ] During the interval betweea 1761 and 17 * 57 \ the subscriptions
originally promised being found to drop off gradually , partly , as Di > Priestley states * HLiie , p . 50 , ) ia consequence of the unhappy differences between Dr . Taylor and
the trustees , partly through the natural apathy of a great majority of the subscribers , who , having tte * ver had a regular accouoUcurretit of th e * anap ^ T expenditure pr ^ s ^ nU ed to ttei&fcwk ^ i ^ . even yeflc ,
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Briff Account of tie Rev . Henry Toy tor . JMB f
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1813, page 287, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2428/page/3/
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