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to recommend it to the managers of our different Congregational Libraries , which are now pretty generally scattered throughout the kingdom ; and as three or four hundred subscribers
will , I conceive , be sufficient to ensure the appearance of the Works , these Libraries would certainly go a great way in making up that number . It would be too much to expect that , in addition to the gratuitous labour of such an undertaking , the
worthy Editor should also be subject to loss ; it is therefore highly desirable that those friends , who are able and willing to countenance the publication should do so without delay , as the carrying so large a work through the press must necessarily occupy a considerable portion of time . I am , Sir , Yours , &c . A SUBSCRIBER .
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S 6 Dr . Vrteitleys Theological -Works .
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Miscellaneous Works ^ or any inciden * tal passages in them , where he has declared or defended his theological opinions . This enumeration cannot fail to comprehend several repetitions of subjects , first hastily sketched , and
afterwards more elaborately detailed . The proposed Editor is , however , desirous of ascertaining whether persons may not be fouud , to encourage the projected edition , who may wish to
possess all these Works of Dr . Priestley , to observe , for themselves , the progress of such a mind , and to discover the first hints of those opinions which subjected their author to so much evil as well as good report .
It is designed to accompany the edition with Notes , some of which appear to be required from the lapse of years since Dr . Priestley became kpown as a theological writer . These notes to be as concise , as the purpose of conveying useful information will permit ; and generally employed to notice such inconsistencies or
variations of opinion as could scarcely have been avoided in publications which extended through nearly forty" years —Ao correct any errors which may be discovered in dates or references , such as the considerate will readily excuse in a writer who was so often urged
by the ardour of his mind and an impulse of incumbent duty to a rapid employment of his ready pen—to supply additional authorities , where such can be discovered , and especially to quote the passages from authors whose works have become less accessible
than when Dr . Priestley alluded to their opinions . By these notes it is also intended to form a connexion between the author ' s works , to remark what strictures they at first excited , or the more extended contror
versies to which they gave occasion . In the arrangement of such an edition , it is proposed to make the contents of each volume succeed in the order of time as nearly as a proper connexion of subjects will allow . The first volume is intended to include the
Institutes , which will be preceded by a Life of the Author , compiled , with a particular reference to the projected edition , chiefly on the authorities of his own Memoirs , incidental notices
iu his Works , the Continuation by Mr * Priestley , and the Memoirs of Mr . Lindsey by the Hey ^ T . Belsham on whose approbation , and , concurrence the proposed Editor w happy
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Bromley , Feb . 12 , 1816 . Sir , SHALL thank you to give a place I in the Repository to my Proposals for publishing Dr . Priestley ' s Theological Works . I am , of course , unable
to ascertain , at present , whether the projected edition will be sufficiently encouraged by subscriptions . I wish , however , whatever may be the result , to leave recorded among your pages an account of the nature and extent of the design . I remain , Sir , Yours , &c . J . T « R . Proposals for publishing by Subscription , in Medium , Svo ., JDr . Priestley ' s Theological Works . To be edited by J . T- Rutt .
It may be fairly presumed that many persons , disposed to religious inquiry , ' especially amongst the now increasing number of Unitarians , will be inclined to encourage an edition of Dr . Priestley ' s Theological Works , on an economical plan .
To accommodate such persons , it is proposed , ( under the general title of Theological Works , ) to reprint such of Dr . Priestley ' s publications as are classed , in the Catalogue annexed to his Memoirs , under the following
heads : —Metaphysics — Religious Liberty — Ecclesiastical History — Evidences of the Christian Revelation--Defences of Unitarianism and Miscel laneous Theology ; including his Papers in - the Theological Repository and the Prefaces to his Scientific and
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1816, page 86, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2449/page/22/
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