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    ^ < $ gfi * ian te * et rip «^ pgffped * ip the epitaph f o ^ i the tom b ciQftp of , ^ andeman , who , oied at D ^ u ^ ur ^ i |\ the United Stat £$ of AiFM ? ric % > ^ ?|? V ^ ge 4 53 years , vis . # V $ 5 ia £ nth < 5 Jxvre work o £ Jesus Christy ^ it h&u t ^ <* te * 3 d or , thougrfl ? on the part o £ xn % n ^ fjs-sufficient to [ pmsent the dtftfoi sfr ^ n ecs , spotless before God . " ,

    If anything be necessary in explanation it is , oi > ly that the simple belief of thjs . tmth is saving faith . . Wi | , h this notion . the Sandemanians unite , many of th $ ceremonies and customs ol the primitive church , and a £ » ost ngid and formidable discipline . We . have mention ( III . 28 Q ) , of

    Mr . VUliont . Manning * who in tvhe begii&nijig of the last century was n > ini ^ t ^ f && < & . nonconformist church at Peaseqhqll , in . { be county of Suffolk or Norfolk ;^ aod who was distinguished in his day for his zeal on what Mr . Wilson calls " the Socjnian side of

    the question . " He is said to have been instrumental in changing the views of Mr . Emlyn , whilst tnat celebrated Unitarian confessor was minister all JLeo ^ toff . Can any of our readers refer us to any further account of Mr . Mfcpnina ?

    sJEhe history of , < f ^ Hliam Jenkyn , M . A * is a striking exemplification of tfeebaseHess , and crusty of tbe reign of C&arie ? the Second . Xhis gentleman h ^ d b een always a royalist , and had near 4 y pemhed . with Christopher Love itMfee uedertokine ; , 1651 , to bring in t fritux Gfctrfcsi JThe pr ince was at tagtb brought in and the noted Bar * tbolosnejw Act followed , by which

    Jnafeyn with hundreds of others was thrown out of the church , and exposed 4 times to unrelenting persecution . He was cast into Newgate , Sebtecuber 4 4684 , for assembling with other ftiejrKis to » pend a day in prayer , arid fat refusing i he Oxford oatii of passive

    obedience and non-resistance . At ws time he was in an ill state of fyttlth * and his physicians represented t (* ithe king that his lik was in danger htih . close i en prison men t : nothing

    couJd move Charles ' s iron heart ; he T *( Bie < i sternly , " Jfenkyn shall M be a pWkmer as lopg as he live ^ . The t wcatwas fultiHed , and the confine-?*^ t jiude , more rigprous than ever ; iftsftmock that he was nQt suffered to

    Pgy with bi «; . own daughter who •^^ . lo a 5 * k ^* W ^® ' ^ - A * " ? SWIed , he died in Newgate , w $ tt * e »

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    SJ . ^ Sf . ^ r ^ a t ' ^ "'^ SWASA man riiiizht be ds effectually rjiifjmrqefra ! as at Ivburn . 1 nis event iook place January K ) , \ 6 S 5 l The'iii ar ^;^ he is " truly . styled in the inscription } OTi ^ tii ^

    toiitb , was aged ' 72 years . ' -rii ^ fhendsf b $ x i ed b i » n > v i t h great ji on oil r ( i ^ l ^^ K hill CjeJdsj his re u . iains beingq £ fej&te& thither by . at least 6 ne him 4 * e 4 ^ aii <^ fifty-cpa >

    a high- ^ piritjed vvouian , gave moufn ing rings at her father ' s funeral ^ wiih . Aklis . mot to : Mr . hVilLtam Jenkyn , nmrikrwla in Newgale . A nobleman has teg heard of his happy release said io , thc ^ king , "May it pkase your fHGJe&ij ,

    Jenkyn has get his hberty . " Upon which Charles asked with eagenress ; "Aye ! who gave it him ? " The m £ . bleirian replied , ** A greater thdHyhut majesty , the King of'kings , " with , wnich . the king seemed greatly struck , arid remained silent ( 111 . 328—335 ) . 1

    The " Non-Jurors' are introduced ( III . 338 et sea . ) 9 with questionable propriety into a " History of Disscnfcini £ Churches . "" They would hav £ esteemed it the lowest degradatioa to hare taken shelter under the Toleration Act . The author shews them no mercy ; but he may justly plead !

    that they were on some occasions dis- ^ posed to be merciless . We are mote inclined than he to allow to some of them the praise of integrity and pife ) t ^ r as well as of learning . We are ^ rw debted to them for . some . of ine . ^^ devotion a 1 books in the Englisti lai ^ guage . Collier was quite a rfunfajp j& . nis uioraJs ; and few English prim ^ cs

    have lived or died more irreprpaojjably andexemplarily than the deprived Archbishop Sancrqft * Some interc&t ^ ing anecdotes are tokl of his simplicity , frugality , meekness and charity in His village retirement of Scarding . On his death-bed he said to one of his chaplains who had conformed by

    taking the oaths to the revolution government , " You and I have g ^ ne different ways in these kite affairs ^ mi I trust heaven ' s gates are witje enough to receive us both . What I Uayf ? : done , I hare done in tbe integrity of my heart—indeed in the great integrity of my heart . " . ' ..

    After some of the preceding strictures we are bound in justice too commend Mr . Wilson ' * impartiality ^ his memoir of T / tomas Jlttfyri , Cl \} r ^ Q 9 et * eq . )> which is quite as full $ » Jihf pW of the History admitted , ^ i | d j ) Qt

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1816, page 725, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2459/page/33/