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    not now satisfy the bulk of Christian hearers arid communicants . Hence Independent churches , that have not been cast ane \ V in the mcthodistic mould , have in very few instances kept up their reputation and numbers .

    Mr . Wilson takes a great liberty in coining a word , p . 2 () 2 , viz . Laudensian , by which he means belonging to ( Archbishop ) Laud . The adjective warranted by . usage is Laudean ; although a efrcuniJocution would be better than even this term . In the memoir of JJ ?\ John Owen , the historian writes con amove . Owen

    was a great man , and we are disposed to make ] L > ut / cw abatements in Mr . Wilson ' s panegyric . It is indeed honourable to this patriarch of Independency , that he was one of the first advocates in England of liberty of

    conscience , on the right princi p le . Bishop Jeremy Taylor went before him in this noble course : Richard Baxter , with all his boldness , dared not follow these eminent leaders of the public mind . There was a remarkable

    consistency in Or . Owen ' s nonconformity lie scrupled to give the ' popish title of saint to the apostles , and he shewed a praiseworthy indifference to the usual clerical titles .

    " Upon a certain high-ehurqjiinan refusing to style him Reverend ) be wrote thus : ' For the title of Reverently I do give him notice that I have very little valued it , ever shice I have considered the saying- of Luther , Nunquam periclUatur

    Retigio nisi inter Reverindifmimos . ( Religion never was endangered except anioni ^ the most Reverends . ) So that he may , as to me , forbear it for the future , and call me , as the Quakers do , and it shall suffice . And , for that of Doctor y it was conferred on me by the University , in my absence , and against my consent , as they have expressed it under their public seal :

    nor doth any thing : but gratitude and respect unto them , make me once own it ; and freed from that obligation , I should never use it more : nor did I use it , until some were offeuded with me an 4 blamed m , e for my neglect . * Defence of Review of Schism , yrrfLved to Mr , Cotton * s Defence against Cawdry , pp . 97 , 98 . " I . 26 * 5 . Note .

    Dr . Watts ' s father is said ( I . 292 ) to have been " a Dissenter from principle" The meaning of the phrase is

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    evident , but it has been so often turn ed into a joke £ hat we doubt the pn > pricty of repeating it ; and there are

    so few ternj > tations of a worldl y kind to nonconformity , that it is for the most part needless to say that a Dis - senter _ is not swayed in his reli < u choice by a love of ea ^ e or lucre or honour .

    The historian does not conceal Dr . Watts ' s heresy on the subject of the Trinity , but he is careful to reoresent it as less alarming than has sometimes been imagined . Of the " solemn address" he says nothing . * The

    Doctor is commended by this biographer for keeping reason out of the province o ^ religion : but had he suffered his own excellent understanding to exercise itself on points of faith , could he have fallen into the strange notion that non-elect infants , dying in infancy , sink into annihilation ? ( I . 308 . )

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    Art . Ill— -Substance of a Speech , delivered in the Court of Common Council , on a Motion to address his Royal Highness ( he Prince Regent to accede to the late Treaty concluded between the Emperors of Russia and of Austria and the King of Prussia . By JVJr . FavelL To which are added other

    Papers on t < he Subject of Peace . 8 vo . pp . 54 . Concler . 18 lrj . ] V /| R . FAVELL is well known in -LtA London as the zealous and consistent friend of civil and religious liberty and of peace . In the evening of life , and apparently meditating a retreat from public business , he

    publishes this speech as a testimony in behalf of the principles which , vvith va ^ rious success , he licis avowed and defended for forty years . He delivers a flattering opinion of his . old associates " the Reformers of England— -a class of high spirited and independent men , who have maintained the cause of

    freedom , and have dared be honest in the worst of times . ** We cordially wish the public attention may be drawn to Mr . Favell's sensible and manly plea for Peace and Reform .

    * The question of Dr . Watt * * * last religious opinious is largely discussed in o eighth volume .

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    414 Rcvicic . —JJr . Favell ' s Speech on the Christian Treaty .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1816, page 414, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2454/page/42/