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Letter vfDr . Priestley' > $ f communicated by Dr . Philipps * 389
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knows best when 'tis fittest to put a period to it * 1 cannot say much of public matters yet ; our Parliament are but just beginning , and 'tis hoped they will vigorously maintain the - Revolution , and the present war , but especially in Soain : and if the publick credit and
Joans do but go on prosperously , we inaj hope we are recovered from the late shock ; but time must shew that . Mr . Wbiston , after some years open profession of the Arian doctrine , and having published proposals for printing an account of the primitive faith , which , in manuscript , has been shewn
to many of the learned clergy , has been lately expelled the University , and ' tis like to make some stir , but with what success , God only knows . He is allowed to be a person of great abiJit and sincerity : but truth and religion hath ( have ) not many sincere inciuirers after thehnu I prav God
fill you with joy and peace in believing-, aud that your inward man may still be renewed daily ; and when the crazy earthly tabernacle is cast off , may be perfected among the spirits of the just . I am , with all true affection , Yours , T . EMJLYN .
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ing laity in * general , were very friendly ~ with each other , and being umted in support of a society which was instituted for the relief of the necessitous widows and orphans of Protestant Dissenting Ministers , they had then , and still have , a \ early meeting for the purpose of receiving and applying the
congregational collections , as well as promoting union and friendship among one another * J do not remember from what quarter the proposition came * which led to that offer of sympathy and respect to Dr . Priestley , which I had the honour of making in obedience to the sreneral will : but this 1 know *
tfxat it met with the instant concurrence of every person in the room . There was at that time , and I truBt there still remains , in the county of Suffolk , a spirit of true Christian liberality , which disdained to scowl on any man for his opinions , and which held aJ 4 religious persecution in
absolute abhorrence . The following is the letter , so far as it relates to the writer himself , and m a proof , among many others , of the calmness , the resignation * and the benevolence of his mind * under the weight of that unprovoked hostility and persecution , which compelled him to leave his native country for ever . NATH . PHJUUPPS .
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mm ^ m ^^ r- ^^^ Dear Sir , I AM much affected with the generosity of my friends in your neighbourhood , and beg you would return them my warmest thanks for their kind benefaction . It is with sincere
regret that I leave this country $ espe * cialJy after flattering myself that I was fixed for life . But all my sons , ate already in America , and their situation , together with the state of things here , make it expedient for me to ero to
them . Our captain has fixed our de * parture for the Q 5 th instant , but it will probably be about the beginning of April . However , I shall be ready in good time . 1 leave this country itrith every goodwitK , not only to my friends , but to my enemies \ and hope that when prejudices are removed , we shall meet in a better state .
m w » m w I ana , dear Sir , Yours sincerel y * Clapton * J . FRIESTJUEY March StA > 1794 .
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Letter ofDr * Priestley ' s * communicated by Dr . Philipps . Sir , Sheffield , July 3 , 1817 . fTTHE letters of pious and learned JL men constitute a most valuable treasure , and I am happy to find that many such precious relics of departed worth have found their way into your Repository . 1 send , for insertion in that work * a letter from my late friend the Rev . Dr . Priestley , which he wrote
we a short time before he left England . It waa written in consequence of a remittance of 3 O / ., which had bggn raised by subscription at the Annual Meeting of Protestant Dissenters of the county of Suffolk , held at Stowmarket , and : which , as Us chairman , I was directed to send him * I think it right to inform you , that the majority of persona who w < ere present , whether
ministers w laymen , ifrere Calvmists , Or of the Independent denomination of Dtageutera . Indeed * at the time which I refer to * there were only three Unitarian Societies in the count } y but all the ministers of that district , of What * ever denomination , and the Dissent-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1817, page 389, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2466/page/13/
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