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& 9 $ * a ns > blej f > roof of the connexion hetM ?^ en / Protestant principles and actiye benevolence . I confess that , in every view , I should have been better pleased with his
statement had he employed , instead of the word Protestant , the more comprehensive and still worthier appellation—Christian . Though 1 am a zealous separatist from the church of Rome , I feel , nevertheless , a solicitude not even to
appear unjust to the history and the members of that communion . Thie well known candour and li-Ijerel& y of Dr . Rees * forbid the
suspicion that he can intentionally wound the feelings of any class of men , or be forgetful ^ for a moment , olthe claiias of tnitbf and equity * But whether he be correct in
tracing the origin of our hospi tals a » d dispensaries to > th $ influence , exclusively or chiefl y * of Protes . tant principles , i * not , I presume , dh ifrijwop ^ n quebtion . Hospitals
existed , oiost Undoubtedly , before th 0 Reforinattpn ; though not , I balfevo , ' upon so large a scale . RpeviDttsdy t *> that era , they were &jipetttiag £ 3 in some degree to mo . ^ i ^ tefi ^ s and convents : and it was
customary for the inhabitants of religious houses to bestow much of ^ their time and care upon sick , bounded and dying strangers . On the dissolution of those
establishmeqt * the streams of their wealth flovye ^ in to the royal treasury : nor will the memory of Edwafd the Siklh cea . se to be gratefully honoured for the admirable uses
% & which h # ^ p f > liec ! them . Still , &Mf $% 39 qMfr 5 Kt *? y f the holy flamtJ of jphlirity had been « sxj , i ^ gp is ^^ . ^^ V ^ ' yery . ' irfucb jff ^^ re ^ ^ P ^^ sl | t ^ $ Qom of P * M « 4 m ' age ^^ -D ^ pens ^ , U mAlUfy . art coiDj ^ araliYeJj 6 % te ±
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cent date : they have arisen partly from the demands of ^ n iiiQr ^ a ^ ed and increasing population , an ^ Jf partly from that brotherl y love to ' the exercise ofwhich bur common
faith ) aided by the genius of ant free constitution , is sienatly ^ lu * spicious . And I eoiicejye tiiat
opulent Roman Catholics are , jointly with Protestants , supportersr of dispensaries , both in the capital and in our provincial towns an $ L cities . ** .
Many passages in Eustace ' ^ Travel ' s will attest , I think , the " justness of these observations , t further beg leave to refer ypur readers to the authority of Mp « sheim ( Eccles . Hist , by Maclaine ^ Vol . III . 18 . 1782 . ) and to tie
elegant Essay on Monastic In § ti tutions , in a volume of Miscella nies , by Dr . Aikin and Mrs . Bar bauld . Yours , &c .
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Dr . A . Clarke ' s cautious Account of Dr . Whitby . May I , MBUMSir Mr , Wright ' s Strictures on Di ^ Adam Clarke ' s Bible remind ms ; of a'note which 1 made when , in
tbe country , last autumn * I amus ^ ed myself , in a friend ^ s library ^ with the general preface ' to that work . From page 9 , 1 then Copied . Che , following passage : iC \ Vhitby is learned , argumen . tative , and thoroughly orthodox . The best comment oh the K . To
taken in a ) I points of vie ^ r , is certainly that of Whitby , Hejs ^ aid to have embraced ^ oci piaijjisnQL previous to his death , which ioofy plac ^ in 17 ? 6 . " . ^ 1 " ' . ¦ ¦ ¦^ % P ^ l ^ ! S ^ W ^ hav ^ advance .. W , ^ tAe gqtw
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Dr . A . darke n s cautious Account of Dr . Whitby . * 2 § &
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1814, page 293, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2440/page/37/
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