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the Sermon , was immediately published . Amongst otBer contributors to the new building , Mr . Betshain has recorded the name of Mr . Tayleur ^ of Shrewsbury , who subscribed for tnis purpose 500 / .
in the 3 per cent , stock . Of this zealous and liberal friend to truth , an interesting account is subjoined , ( pp . 139—141 . ) Rightly considering himself as
* set for the defence of the gospel , * Mr , Lindsey published , in 1781 , hjs Qi Catechist / ' a small tract , in the form of a dialogue , on the Unity and sole worship of God . The title was ill chosen , and the
work did n . ot come to a second edition , until adopted into the Catalogue of the London Unitarian Book Society , It was written , however , with more than Mr . JLindsey ' s usual spirit . The biographer has extracted a passage ^ p . 153 , i 54 ) , apparently with approbation , which seems even acrimonious , and which we know has given serious offence to many candid and iutiuirinr r Trinitarians : »_ > the passage alluded to , is that in which the believers in two natures in Christ , are described as persons not to be reasoned with , but to be " pitied , as being under a debility of mind in this repect , however sensible and rational in all others /' Is not this in thv worst spirit of reputed orthodoxy ?
The Cat schist is the , only work of Mr . Lindsey ' s which is not in lhe 8 vo . form . It is worthy of the inquiry of the Book Society , whether it would not be useful to
reprint it in this size , to enable his numcious leaders to possess a uniform set of hb works ? This is the more deserving of attention , as the Tract is / now scarce . ; ft i § 4 a singular . prqof of fljir . Lindsey ' s disinterestecl ze&I on be-
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half of true religion , thkt although he was by no means rich } and the income from his chapel was not large , he entertained and expressed an early wish for an assistant in the ministry . He first thought to unite Dr . Jebb with himself in his
pastoral duties , but the Dr . chose the profession of medicine . Over . tures to the same purpose were made to other seceding cler . gymen , without effect . At length , in the year 1782 , Dr . Disney , the rector of Panton and vicar of
Swinderby , Lincolnshire ^ resigned his livings on the ground of Uni . tarianism , ( See " Reason ' s for resigning , " &c . ) and became the associate of the iftinhtcr of Essex
Street ^ —a connection the more agreeable to both , as they were friends and relations , Dr . Disney having married the daughter of Archdeacon Blackbarne . The
two eminent confessors of Unitarianistn continued happily ami honourably connected , until'Mr . Lindsey ' s resignation of the pastoral office in 1793 ; . from that time to the year 1805 ^ Dr . Disney was the sole pastor of the
congregation . His obtaining an assistant in the ministry set Mr . Lindsey more at liberty for defending and prO ^ moting Christian troth , by means
of the press -f arid an immediate fruit of his w&lLemployed leisure was , his Ci Historical View of the State of the Unitarian Doctrine and Worship /'( published inl 785 , ) an 8 vo . volume of considerable
interest ^ but scarcely entitled to be considered , as pronoutaced by fbe biographer , ( p . J 58 ) cc ah eltt ^ orite urorfc- / ' It is a work of n > uch the sawie Gharacter &s Archdeacon BfaekbilriliB ' s ^ H ^ toriettlVie iv of t ^ Cpnivaverty cbrtee rtii nf | he Intermediate Stated We fiftve
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5190 Meview . —I $ elsham * s Memoirs of Lindscf ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1813, page 530, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2431/page/42/
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