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f , Day" and the expostulation of the 'Snoed soul , which thus begins—«< Wbo burst the barriers of my peaceful crave ? Ah ! cruel Death ! that would no longer save , But grudg'd me e ' en that narrow , dark abode , f And cast me out into the wrath of God . Towards the close of his address , the miserable victim of divine vengeance is thus made to recollect the paternal character of God : "And canst thou then look down from perfect bliss , And see me ptunging in the dark abyss , Calling thee Father , in a sea of fire , Or pouring blasphemies f at thy desire ?"
Mr . John Wesley , many years before his death , and during the life of Young , re-published , in a Collection of English Poems , ( 3 vols . 8 vo . ) " The Last Day . " He was aware of the
inconsistency into which the orthodox poet had fallen , and annexed to the lines I have just quoted the following note , in substance , if my memory has failed me as to the exact words : "
Impossible ! Could a damned soul speak thus , would he not in a moment be in Abraham ' s bosom ?" ¦ Your Correspondent { p . 326 ) appears not to be aware of the question which has been raised whether the Treatise to
which he refers was written by Jeremy Taylor . I suppose he intends the " Contemplations of the State of Man in this Life and in that which is to come , " the eighth edition of which , 8 vo . 1718 , is now before me . It is confessedly posthumous . Prefixed are two Addresses to the Reader . The
tot signed B . Hale , D . D . is highly comime ndatpry , without a word as to aut henticity : the second Address , signed Robert Harris , describes Bishop Taylor ™ " having left these Holy Contemplation * m the hands of a worthy friend of , ' Wlth a full purpose to have printed tthe mifhehadlivpl "
iik e lmd £ r 6 tood , on the best anof P ly r that tUe ^ ditor of " Specimens rrrV i ? Dramalic Poets , " a gentleman ]' Ucall y versed in the fine writers of ; th 7 j ? y Taylor ' s age , is of opinion that r S ^ Ptotions * though containing { ten , e 8 ln his manner , were not writ-^ ideLl f Bish ° P- There a PP ears no * U ) r assigning them to him ,
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except the testimonies of the unknown Robert Harris and the equally unknown worthy friend to whom they are said to have been entrusted . J . O . U .
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Sir , Bath , Aug . 13 , 1816 . BEG leave to transmit to you a I short extract from a letter of an enlightened clergyman of the Establishment to a Dissenting minister , w ^ hose Unitarianism lately compelled him to resign his congregation , with whom he was connected almost twenty-six years .
" Dear Sir . Those who wish to worship any more Gods than one , ought to go to the East Indies , and prostrate themselves before the idol of that country . " The whole letter is written in the same strain , virtually acknowledging no God but the One God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ , and condemning all encroachments upOn the dictates of reason , and all impositions upon the rights of conscience , as diametrically opposite to the glorious doctrines of the gospel . As there are well
known to be a great number of clergymen of the same sentiments , why do they not unite in petitioning the legislature , and , to use the language of sailors when they are aroused to exert their utmost exertions , with a long
pull , a strong pull , and a pull all together , claim the privileges of the children of God , and desire to be permitted to obey his voice , in the language of their own hearts , and
according to their most strenuous endeavours to understand and propagate the revelation he has given them . Our legislators are not at present Calvinists or JLaudeans . Many of them are lovers of truth , and none of them can stand
up and say that this or that Shibboleth should be required of men , when contrary to the light of their own minds , and what they believe to be the word of God . Whatever erroneous sentiments many of them may entertain at present , let them all be allowed to declare themselves unequivocally , and trvith will be a gainer in the end . It
will shine with glory by a free discussion . Or if any subscription be yet thought necessary in those who undertake the office of minister , let it be this only , — " I believe in the Hol y Scriptures , and by the divine blessing
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Ttiherality of the Clergy * 5 It
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1816, page 511, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2456/page/11/
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