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& ](! > or otti ^ r ' blace ; * at * 4 sin £ e tn 6 Ogject oftheToretation Acts does Hot ^ tn to . require the registration of a fleitl , this is a conclusive arcnmeiit , in" my opinion , in favour of trie construction I have endeavoured to
establish . For these reasons , I submit , that in order ~ U > legalize field-preaching , it is unnecessary to register the field . W . REDIN .
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Lletter to the late Rev . T . Lindsey , from Paris , 1801 . Communicated by Mr . Ruit . SlK \ Clapton , Oct . 12 , 1816 . THE following letter wa ^ communicated tp me by my excellent friend , ; to whom it was addressed , wiln liberty to copy it . Should you wish to preserve the letter as a record of some appearances and expectations , at the time when it was written ,
described by an intelligent person well situated lor observation it is at your Service . I was acquainted with , the gentleman who ' wrote this letter , when he
Jived m England , which he left in 17919 and has since resided constantly at Paris . He is yet living there , or at least , was so , subsequent to the restoration , or rather the imposition of the Bourbons . J . T . RUTT .
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To the Rev . TTteophilus Lindsey . Paris , 25 th Dec . 1801 . 44 Dear Sir , * I know not whether I ought to make any apologies for writing to you , fiut 1 have been in the habit of doinc :, or
at least supposed to be doing so many jstrange things for these ten years past , that 1 seem to myself as privileged beyond the ordinary routine of society . My letter , however , will be of a very harmless nature , compared with others
which I anv accused of having written , iihd will commit neither of us , if it should fall into other hands than your own . ' 'The business is as follows . ' ' About two or three months since , a letter from a society in London * calling itself a missionary society , was ieflt me ; the -writers of which
rebuested information on divers subjects , particularly with- respect to the state of' religion in France , and the best nSatfes ( of propagating the pure Gospel of Jesufc Christ . The sdeiety pro ^ rt&e&'kt the' same time' the printing
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and < JistVibuting ten tndt&krid c ^ feictf of the "New Testament , with a prologomenon of about one hundred pages , containing pr 6 ofs of the truth of the Sacred Writings . I collected from the style of the letter that the writers' and the society they reDre .. sentecl were or the L / alvinistic persuasion , and I presume belonging to the
class called in "England Methodists . As the inquiry appeared to me to come from good and somewhat intelligent men , I answered their letter at some length , I believe in eight or ten sheets . I gave them an account of the pfesent state of religion and irreligion in the republic of the different sects ,
both Catholic and Protestant , which at present divide it * I gave them a sketch of what had been done by the government for the restoration of worships and what were likely to be the effects of its interposition . My letter
in short was so couched as to apply to Christians of every denomination ; and I was careful not to prevent by the explanation of my sentiments the good which I mi g ht in future do by furthering the views of the society , since their views appeared to me benevolent and praise worthy . if
An answer has been received -to that letter , in which the' society at large to whom my letter has Wen read , return me their thanks and request a continuance of the correspondence . Now as the continijaticc of this correspondence will necessarily draw me into further measures , for
this is meant by the letter , 1 am very desirous of knowing what this society is , arid with what propriety I can hold intercourse with it . The society knows nothing farther of my religioti * opinions than that I am a Dissenter . Of this I thought it right to inform them . It appears that they are also of this class . This is a point of
contact which gives me some confidence . As Christians , Protestants and Dissenters , we are agreed , but I presume that in all other pomts we are very diversant . 1 have mentioned this plan of relig ious revolutionizing to some Italian prelates ,, ana have taken measures for settling a c °£ respondence with a Benedictine Mon ^ of considerable abilities , who is" * present in a convent at Rome . , }} n society frpm . a hint I gave them m AWu&fe timukfeV prdBSytirifefctvcor
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$ | jS * Letter to the laie Rku "Tliebphilus Lindsey .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1816, page 642, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2458/page/14/
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