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    Missed Saviour Jesus Christ , that We should nothide our light under a bushel , but expose it on the house-top , are now contrary to riiy orjg ' mat intention in writing , exposed to public view ; the

    consideration qf their being loose papers , and so subject by time arid other casualties to be lost , of rriy having the number 70 in ray view , and daily expecting to be called to inherit that land which

    Adam , the great father of mortaliy , Kith entailed upon all his posterity ; as also that the publication ^ f them might prove of some moinjferit and advantage , not only to plivate persons , but even to the ptihlic , in the present and future

    agfes , together with the auxiliary influences of some of ray friends irid acquaintance powerfully dis * j ^ i noof me thereunto . ' * ^ I ) r . Franfelin , in his Life relates , ft at ¦ ¦ " * ' \ vhen about sixteen years 5

    of age , > he met with " work of If rypn ^ in which he recommends ^ getabTej diet , " and ' ' determined ip' c ^ serve it / ' In the work now before me , Try . pn declares against tfie ; Killing , and eating of beasts' *

    —tvhqm in one place , he describes drc our 46 fellow-creatures , ' * and u under graduates / ' In another place he considers their flesh as M £ ross , succulent and fulLfreighted with many impurities , ( a ^ demonstrated in The Way to Health )" which he describes as communicated to * the eaters / ' He has here anticipated some modern writers , on this subject , particularl y the late Mr . Ritson , in attributing a revengeful spirit , inducing private contention and pub-1 |< J ; Wars to the use of animal food . Probably " The Way to Health " Wks the work naeptipned by Frank * liii , though "JsflJ , Joqyi&lit hav ^ | eea

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    these letters , ahd have taken a hint for his * Petition" of " tb * Left Hand from Letter 20 , " Of the Right and Left Hands , with the great error ofpeople ' s teaching their children to distinguish them

    by such terms . * ' Tryon complains that < 4 this selfish ignorance of teaching and whipping children , principally to the use of that which they are pleased to call the right band , doth , at the same time * - disable the other hand , wrongfully called , or rather nick . named the left . " The language of Thomas Tryon on moral and religious topics is frequently mystical , not unlike that employed by the Quakers of his time , though he does not adopt their form of address . This Ian *

    guage is very observable in Letter-11 . < - Of the Humanity of Christ ^ He had , I apprehend , no faith in the then generally received ^ doctrine of original sin . With him the human mind , was , at itr birth , rather a ** tabula rasa" than

    " rotten at the core / He says , i the soul of man is fitly compared to a field , whose earth contains all principles and quali * ties , but produces nothing of value till the wise husbandman doth

    manure and cultivate it . ' * And in another place he remarks , that 44 a child is to be made any thitVg that his father , mother , or tutor pleases to have hi in , " and that

    w every thing is alike to a child , good and evil are all one . " Maintaining that tl good edu » cation is the sinews of all virtue and good government / ' Tliomai TvVon had before " published a small oook , called <• The Ne <*

    Method of Education , " containing ^ some uuvulgar direcucins for the bringing up of children ***

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1814, page 171, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2438/page/35/