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life , aad he was accepted qi hkn , though his faith was short of what was necessary to his sahration afterward , when he had more revealed * mto him . Ch . xi . 14 . " The work is
creditable to the author—entirely of a practical nature—nothing is advanced concerning the nature or person of Jesus the Christ at all inconsistent with Unitarianism , but he expresses himself on the atonement in terms not common with Unitarians—his
explanation of it , however , would be well approved of by them , e . g . ' Perfecting holiness in the fear of God : This is the whole design of the gospel , hereby God is honoured , and without it , the design of our blessed
Saviour were frustrated in his redemption of mankinds , which was to retrieve and bring back the fear of God , " &c . An analysis of the work by an able hand would doubtless be acceptable to many of your readers .
In I 767 Mr . Walker removed fVom Framlinghatn to be minister at Waipole , and took me and the rest of his scholars with him . He there succeeded Thomas How , who settled at Yarmouth , in Norfolk , and had been successor to the venerable John
C romp ton ^ who had ! been pastor at Waipole from the beginning of the last century . After residing there with Mn Walker about a twelvemonth , I was sent to Daventry , August , 1768 , and returning to Fram-Kftgham , August , 1773 , my old master became my particular friend' and
intimate , and on Visits to him he * e |!* eatedly spoke of Mr . William Manning and what he had heard of him from the aged in the society , who in their younger days were contemporary with him , as matter of their own
knowledge , or what they had received from their seniors , all tendfrtg to establish his reputation as a scholar , a Christian and Christian minister , but of a heretical cast ; and it seems cletr in my recollection that Mr- W . said he bad been informed that Mr .
W . M . published a catechism or summary of religions principles , doctrines and duties , but he had never been able to procure a copy of it . In the year 1778 I met with a MS . letter from Mr . Crompton , who win for several years contemporary with W . 9 § t which I then copied to Rich * ' short iMfed * and am happy ta
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have bow fouud it , a * it probably contains the only authentic account of W . M " . and his congregation any where to be met with . It consists of sixteen close "written octavo pages , and was addressed by him from
Waipole , August 2 , 1754 , to the Rev . Mr- Staunton , of Debenham , Suffolk , where Mr . S . ' s ministry was much approved till the cry of heresy was raised against him , and that
principally by means of a religious gossip , ( whom I well knew in my youth ) who travelling the country used to be employed by Mr . S . and Mr . Wood , of Framttnghain , in carrying beaks and letters from one to the other and
thought that there could be no harm in seeing what books good ministers read and what they wrote to each other , and therefore with a safe conscience opened their parcels and letters , and thence drew matter of accusation and condemnation against them , which issued in Mr . Stamiton ' s removal fnom Debenham t ^ O > 1 ~
Chester , where he became minister of the old Presbyterian church and afterwards received a diploma of D . IX He ended hi * days at Hapton , all endowed place ( generally sty ted the Dissenting sineeure ) in Norfolk . His widow and two daughters removed to Hackney .
Mr . Crompton ' s letter does honour to himself and to Mr . S . > and it is natural for those who have struggled hard wMi doubts and difficulties on controversial potato- of divinity to be candid towards those wtio are fried
in like manner , even though they may ultimately diflfer from each odieri If it be ntoti , too long for your inset * tton , I wiii copy the introduction and close of Mr . C / s letter entire . Tiie body of the letter stateft the reasons which hushed his doubts , atid
reestablished him in the belief of « be proper Deity of Christ , which I shall briefly state , and front whetrte I wteh to make a quotation or two as illustrative of the workings of his mind * bui ^ yow , Sir , are at ftbertv to compress or suppress my commumcatioft as you please .
The Rev * Mr * Cromp torts Letter to tttr . ( afterwards Dr . ) Stauniim [ commonl y spelt StanUm \~ 40 Ret . and Dka » S « il > "IF I km over offiefeu * not this
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378 Some Account of Mr . William Manning .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1817, page 378, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2466/page/2/
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