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and were told , that this was the initial j > lace of I > r . Priestley ' s ancestors , $ nd iome of his contemporary relatives . I would gladly have copied allthe inscriptions , but teing msach pressed for time , -I transcribed only those which am upon the tomb belonging to the Doctor ' s fattier . They read as follows : — -
* To THE MEMORY OF JONAS pRIESTJkBY , * ' THE SON" OF JOSEPH Priestley , of Field-head , who died February 18 th , 1779 , aged 70 ybahs . Also , Mary , his wife ^
, who pjfXD December 28 th , 1739 . Also , Ann , | his daughter , who died January 8 th , 1763 , aged gp yeahs . Who all lie interred NEAR THIS PLACE . THIS
CORRUPTIBLE MUST PUT OUT INCORRUPTION , AND T ^ IIS MORTAL , IMMORTALITY . " ' On the flat stone which covers the same tomb is the following inscription : «—
" Herelieth the body of Sarah , § wiee of Joseph Priestley , of blrstal-head , who died 29 th December , 1728 , ag ed 68 years . Here also is interred the body of Joseph Priestley , ]) of Birstal Field-head , who departed this life ' the 2 nd day of august , in the 85 th year of his age .
anno Domini 1745 . ' The two other tombs were erected to the memory of Dr . Priestley ' s unc l es , and their descendants . They are close to each other , and close to the tomb first mentioned .
Before 1 left Birstal , Mr . Priestley , . lutu informed me , that theirs « fras one of the largest and most extended f&-milies in Yorkshire , and in confirmation of ittsaid , that as we were going through Hickmondwtcke * if we wo ^ la call at the old chapel yard ^ in that place , -we might satisfy ourselves ' of the truth of ? what he 8 * id . 'Accordragly , as we had occa&icrn to pass close
? Hi © Mr . Jonas Priestley b « re mentioj * ed wftft th ^ father of . Pr . PrieAtley . f * Dr . Priestley ' s mother . $ A half sister of the Doctor ' ^ . 5 Thi * person wa ^ Dr . PHestiey ' ^ grandmother , a wipmati of excellent character , so roi ^ ch 00 that ijjtte . Poctornamed his only daughter , ^ MFrs . JlMh , a ^ Uir , frer . M ^' - ^^^^[^^ S ^^ j ^ ^ jj ^ ^ f ** * r ^ v 77 jL Vv . . SfrmTO ^ S' A ^ TjfiLfltTi ' "tT-jfl fi / L'i ^ mfG Hf : Rnil TWinWl 8 X UlC I'limi lw HloHlwr mii ^ Hirii
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to the chapel , we directed the chaise , man-to stop-at the p lace , and as the keeper of the chapel lived very nes ^ to it ,, we procured the keys without ^ difficulty . Here we saw a row 6 f e ^ ht very hand some tombs all huilt
alike alid entirely of stone > belonginp to the Priestley family $ but as we had no one with us w > ho coald explain the exact relationship of any of the deceased to the late ± > r / Priestley , I did not take the trotdble of copying any of the inscriptions * Thus , Sir , have I endeavoured to
corrrply wnth ypur reqvtest , and I do flatter myself that those persons who value the character of the late Dr . Priestley , either as a man , as an aut h or , or as a successful and industrious chemical philosopher , will thank me for" my attempt to rescue these
few unpublished iacts respecting his family , from oblivion ^ I am , Sir , you £ s , &c . SAJViUEL PARE 3 ES .
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m 76 TheJ ? baio ^ pk y of Calvinism .
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^ The Philosoph y of Calvinism . Sir ,
?! t 7 "OOR ' most 1 learned correspondent rfflL < Mr . Cogan , suad others , have recently exposed the absurdities and inhujpanity of this dreadful system . Now this system consists not of . plain declarations of scripture , which con ~ tain no system expressed in connect ed arrangement ^ but is inu fact a
system of reasoning and deductions from certain expressions in the writings of St . Paul . 11 is at least as much a system of reasoning as -ttefe -Unitarian system . Its advocates-Aid in the writiags of Paul , the doctrine of the divine prescience , and infer the divine predetermination . From the
prescience of G ^ d a , nd his uncontroulable power , they ittfer that all his d ^ - terminations are-accom ^ li shed . Th « y infer from their doctrine of ori ^ al sin , and some declarations on few
that are saved , that all that are saved , are so by divine favour , and all the rest lost , by divine appointment . Their system is evidently a system of reasoning from the . divine aUribi * tesr collected from detached passages m
scripture ; and- yet they deiery reason * and all philosOJplly 1 I tok Aem ^ ra ; ecriptural statement wf their ej ^ tcm , -is $ &i , fo ^ Jri ^ t ^ d ^ rip ^ al lapeii « % e . ^ Aa' ^^^ tinct |> assaffe > ^ ^^ r ftfiig * * 6 fi " 06 ^ pmxt ^ pmey *** ^ mr giide , € \^ ry op ^ t ^>^ lam «» y
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1816, page 276, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2452/page/24/
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