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can be given to the world than by the fear of giving it too much . Mr . Horsley had amply satisfied the demands of filial duty and the
interests , if not the wishes , of the public , by two volumes of his father ' s sermons . Nevertheless , in his capacitv of editor , he deserves
the praise of having carefully su « perintended the printing of all three ; and the typographical execution of them does eminent credit to the state of the Dundee press .
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encounter the inconveniences of narrow circumstances and the difficulties of a new and hazardous undertaking . But Providence raised up friends for him , chiefly from amongst the Dissenters ; of
these Mr . Belsham has particularised Dr . Price , Dr . Priestley and Mr . Shore . ii And by the exertions of the late Mr . Joseph Johnson , of St . Paul ' s Churchyard , a room was soon found and
taken , in Essex-house , Essexstreet , which having been oefore used as an auction room , might , at a moderate expense , be fitted up as a temporary chapel . " ( p . 1010 The Westminster justices hesitated , however , in
granting a licence to open it . The following is an extract of a letter from Mr . Lindsey to Dr . Jebb " I : have the pleasure of assuring you that our difficulties are over ,
and we certainly begin , ( may it be with the divine blessing upon us !) on Sunday next / But we have not succeeded without striking with the great hammer , if I may so speak . For this morning Mr . Johnson the bookseller went , according as he
was appointed , to Hicks ' s Hall , and was there at the opening of the court . He got the clerk to move for him , that he was waiting to have our entry recorded , as the court had given him reason to expect . But
Lord Ward , who was that day in the chair , said it was a matter of some deliberation , and must be set over till the next meeting , i . e . Saturday . It appeared from hence that they would put us off civilly , and leave us in the lurch at last . I
met Johnson coining out of the court , and took him with me to Mr . Lee , who was engaged at Guildhall , where I found him pleading before Chief Justice De Grey . I got to him , however , and told him our situation . He said it did not look well ; but that the Chief Justice ' *
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338 Review . —Belsham ? s Memoirs t > f Lindsey .
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Art . III . Memoirs of the late Reverend ThtophilusLindsey , M . A . including a Brief Analysis of his Works , together with Anecdotes and Letters of eminent Persons , his Friends and Correspondents : also a General View of the Progress of the Unitarian Doctrine in England and America . By Thomas Belsham , Minister of the Chapel in Essex Street , 8 vo . pp . 568 . Johnson and Co . 1812 .
[ Continued from p . 201 ] . On resigning the living of Caltcrick , Mr . Lindsey wrote and circulated ah i 6 Address to his Parishioners , " alluded to in his
letter to Mr . Turner ( p . 200 ); and soon after , he published his 44 Apology , " one of the most interesting pictures of an honest and enlightened mind which was ever laid before the world . This work
passed , in less than ten years , through four editions . It has appeared ( p . _ 20 *) that Mr . Lindsey ' s design was to 4 gather a church of Unitarian Christians out of the Established Church : with this view he came
uj > to London in the beginning of the year 1774 . Here he had to
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1813, page 338, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2428/page/54/
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