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Apology for the Ministers of the County of , Wilts * in their Meetings nt t 3 he Election of ? Meihbers for the approaching Parli $ fft £ nti * In vtfns wer to a hetter sent out of the « aid county . I 6 a 4 . In t whichl Apology
Dr . C . was assisted by John Strickland , f Adonirant ByjLeld > J and Peter Ince , || Presbyterian i % * ni $ ters . Answer to the charge of-Walter Bushnel , vicar of Bfw , Wilts , published in A Narrative of the Proceedings of the
Commissioners appointed by Oliver Cromwell * fbt ejecting scandalous and ignorant Ministers . § ¦ ' . 1660 . Vindir cation of the said Commissioners , printed with the former . He was one of the assistants to the said
Commissioners , and carried himself very severe against the ministers , ^ f What other books he hath publishe ^ I know not , nor any thing els ^ of him , only that he was buried in the church of JPewseyf ^ on 8 th September , 1662 , . with no other ceremony than that we use to a dog ; and about the same time washis wife buried there also .
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the Repository for June , [ XII . 333 * 3 to which admittance into your pages ifr&s refused , but which has appeared Ina distinct publication , entitled ' * Umtarianism Old and New" The airthor ^ who describes himself as ' * An Old Unitarian , " endeavours in this reply to substantiate the charges , : whicfc in a former letter , published in the Repository for May , [ 284 J he had preferred against the general body of those Unitarians , who are active and zealous in the dissemination of
their principles . To illustrate i- his remarks , he has quoted ( p * 49 ) , a passage' from the " Sequel to my Viridi ~ cation of UnitarianismS * As I am very unwilling , that I should be supposed to countenance that indifference to the progress of important trath , : ih favour of which this author sennas to
plead , and as I am * still more averse to be brought forward as an evidence in support of accusations , which , in the extent and aggravation given -to * them , I believe to be entirely ground- * less ; I beg leave to mention through your i ^ iedium , that , although I have
asserted ( Sequel , p . 152 ) , upon abstract principles the danger of a defi ~ - ciency in practical religion among converts to Unitariaiiism , I have nevertheless added as a matter of fact , thnt the system of truth which they adopt " counteracts the injurious operation
of a roving inquisitivenesg , and in general makes them not worse , but far better men , than they were t ^ crfore . " Besides , being made to a certain degree a party in this debate , I feel the propriety of rendering my sympathy and succour to an injured brother . Although professing " much
tenderness" towards those worthy individuals in the Church of England , whtfy ^ holding the institutibns of their forefathers in great veneration , are ^ afraid to inquire , lest they should find cause to give them up as indefensible / ' ( p . 16 , ) the Old Unitarian / skews no tenderness towards one ,. who
has inquired , who has relinquished as indefensible a religious profes ^^ sion , which v * ould have led to ad ; miration and to fame , and who ha ^ openly avowed a system , which is the
object of popular contempt and repfirobation . After such proofs of a steads fast love of truth , and after that painful struggle , which must have attended the rejection of the prejudices of edu *
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Mr * James YatestinVUnitatianismOldand New * S 05
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Birmingham , Sir , Jamtary 10 , 1818 . HAVE perused with great atten-I tion , great interest , and great regret , a Reply to Mr . Fox ' s letter in
? Cromwell's Second Parliament . It was formed upon the new model in the Instrument of Government , and a principal design was to give a large proportion of County Members . While in Cornwall
the Boroughs were reduced to four members , the County had eight ; England sent four hundred ; Scotland thirty ; and Ireland thirty . ParL Hist . XX . 250 and 9 96 .
f Oxford WritebuJNo . 311 . j ^ Scr ibe to the A ssem bl y of Divines " Dr . Wall is is said to have been his assistant , and hence called ** Sub-scribe to the tribe # f Adaniram . " ( Wj II . 415 . I ) Of Braxen-Nose , Oxford , not a writer * Ejected from Dunhead , is said to
have u had an admirable gift in prayer , ** and hence called praying Ince" ( C . ) § " An Ordinance by his Highness the Lord Protector and his Council , for the ejecting scandalous , ignorant and
insufficient ministers and school-masters , Tuesdayy , August 29 , 1654 . London , printed 1654 * . " See also Whitelock , Mem . ^ f In the Ordinance , Dr . Chambers is the first named assistant for the county of Wilts ; The iSrat named of the
commissioners was -Sir A . Ashley Cooper , afterwardt Earl pfAhaft ^ bury . ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1818, page 105, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2473/page/25/
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