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< She was married to a gentleman of large fortune and was attracted by curiosity and the invitation of a friend to hear the new doctrine at Essex Street , on the day when the chapel was first opened . Through
the whole service her " eyes were fixed , and her attention riveted upon the preacher , and when it was over , she and Mr . Rayner introduced themselves to Mr . and Mrs . Lindsey , and from that time to the end of
life she became a constant hearer at the chapel , and a firm and generous friend to Mr . Lindsey , and to the cause which he supported , and for which he suffered . Mrs . Rayner was a lady of open and unaffected manners , of superior intellect , and of a well-informed mind . She
possessed unbounded generosity of spirit , and especially after the death of Mr . Rayner , denied herself almost what was necessary to support her rank and station in life , that she might spend her money in acts of great but not indiscriminate munificence . She became a liberal and
powerful patroness of the cause of truth . And to this lady the Christian world is indebted for the publication of one of the most learned and most useful theological works which the age has produced : Dr . Priestley ' s History of Early Opinions concerning Christ . A work which demonstrates , in a manner which
never has been and never can be confuted , that from the earliest age of the Christian religion , down to the fourth century , and to the time of A than asi us himself , the great
body of unlearned Christians were strictly Unitarians , and consequently that this wasjthe ori g inal doctrine concerning tfie person of Christ . This most valuable treatise was a
work of great labour and expense , the demand for which would by no means have defrayed the charge of the publication . But Mrs- Ray over , witfi exemplary generosity , supplied tjhe moi ^ ey , and to her the work is with great propriety dedicated , Many other acts of this lady ' s princely munificence might be men-
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tioned , which almost exceed belief in a selfish and irreligious age . But she sought not worldly applause ; and she is now gone where her works and virtues will follow her , to receive their appropriate and everlasting reward . " pp . 119—12 J . To be continued .
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Art . IV . A Letter to a Friend in the Country , &c . &e . on the Dissenting Ministers' Petition ,
and the Rev . J . Ivimey ' s Correspondence with J * Butterworth , Esq . M . P . By . John Evans , A . M . 2 d ed . pp . 32 . Sherwood and Co . 1813 .
Mr . Ivimey is a Baptist minister , who has written a History of his own Denomination , whom he lauds for being the first to understand Christian liberty and - the most zealous ~ in opposing all persecution for the sake of
conscience ; and the- same Mr . Ivi - mey has distinguished himself , along with Dr . Dui * genan and other eminent persons , on the side of No Popery , or in other words , of the oppression of the Catholics . But Mr . Iyimey had a right to sustain the two different characters of an
eulogist of religious liberty and an assertor of the necessity of penal laws against Romish h&reUci ^; though he had no right , we humbly presume , to misrepresent the proceedings of his brethren and to betray a member of parliament into a seeming breach of verity .
The case is briefly this : — the Protestant Dissenting Ministers of London and Westminster , met in February last , and . voted , as they thought unanimously , Resolutions
and a Petition to the legislature , in favour of universa . 1 religious liberty .. Mr . W . Smith , on presenting their petitioirtotbe House of Commonsj called it unanimous ,
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34 & Evans ' s Letter on the Dissenting Ministers * Petition .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1813, page 342, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2428/page/58/
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