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    e * ery satisfaction in my powe ^ but I amr not aware that I ought to trouble him or any of your readers further on the disagreeable subject which has been very unexpectedly forced on my

    attention . I still think that it was my duty to guard the memories of such men as Watts and Doddndge from the imputation of an \ mqualified approbation of Count Zinzendorf , A

    nobleman exchanging the luxury of a court for the labours of a missionary , whatever be nis creed or his ritual , presents an interesting character . Yet if -the Count really made the representations attributed to his Hymns and Sermons , I know hot how to discover in that

    character the sober-mindedness becoming a Christian , or a disposition to seek after " virtue and praise' * in tiie manner recommended by an apostle . If , on the other hand , the Count has been wronged , as J . F . B . supposes , by forgeries and mis-translations , no man ever left behind him in the world

    friends and followers more strangely regardless of his just reputation . I remain Sir , Your ' s , J . T . RUTT . P . S . I take this opportunity of requesting any of your readers who deto the

    m ^ rx encourage publication of Priestley ' s Theological Works by their subscriptions , to subscribe directly , as froin present appearances the publication must be delayed much longer than . I wished or intended , or the early promoters of the design had rea-8 O # to expect .

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    Opinions of the Early Quakers * Sir , IN looking over the " Athenian Oracle , " a work published above a deatury ago , I was struck with a curious passage relating to the Q uakers , "which may serve to shew what idea

    prevailed at that time respecting their religious sentiments , and will in part confirm the observations of several of your correspondents that their original opinions were pretty far removed from modern orthodoxy . —In answer to the question u may not a Quaker expect happiness after this life ? " it is said ** we are sure th * t many , or most of

    therft , jbav « held very dangerous and detestable opinions . They generally speak contemptibly of the Bible , and ivUl by no ine ^ ns allow it to be God ' s tcortf : they have turned it into an odd sort pf a jejune allegory , eren thie highest and most sacred truths therein con-

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    tained , and have spoken nnt very honourably of our Saviour , and almost generally deny the trinity \ and many , if not all , embrace the other Socinian dream of the so 2 tl * s sleeping till the resurrection Besides they use neither of the sacraments , and if our most authentic accoxints don ' t impose upon us , were at

    their first appearance in England commonly actuated by a worse spirit than that they pretend to . These ' tis hard to hope well of , nor can . we see how with any manner * of propriety they can be called . GJiristians . But if there be any of them who have left

    their first principles , and are degenerated into Christianity ( we ask pardon for the harshness of the expression ) and grown more religious , as well as more mannerly , there may be more hopes of thein . " In the same work the following

    question is asked , and to my mind not satisfactorily answered i should ^ ny of your correspondents think proper to give an opinion on the subject , 1 shall feel highly gratified , conceiving it to be one . well worthy of the serious attention of professing Christian * , and a fit subject for discussion in the Monthly Repositorv . The question is as follows , " Our jurors that try in cases of life and death are obliged to be ( or at least to tell the court that

    they are ) all of one mind , before they cart give or the court receive their verdict ; and it being but reasonable to suppose that it may so happen that oue or more of the twelve may dissent from the major part , as being of deeper judgment , &c . or by building upon

    false notions , which yet he believes , and cannot be persuaded otherwise , but that they are the truth , &c . In short we'll suppose him to act according to his conscience , whether otherr

    wise he be in the right or ho , and then query , how must such a man act , so as to keep a good conscience towards God and man , so as not to be guilty of the blood of the prisoner , as well as of perjury , if he bring him in guilty

    and he is not , " itec . &c . I shall feel obliged by your insertion of the above , And remain , Sir , Your constant Header , T . R . S . P . S . It will greatly oblige several of your reader * , if , Mrf Ileea , will inform them thraughujfche ** ie # uin of tft © Repository What progress , h ^ hag . m * * in ni « proposed " History of Foreign

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    ; $ } £ Opiniom of the Early Quakers .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1816, page 392, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2454/page/20/