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    To the liwiit ^ Stephen MartffctH * Stfr . Ba * fe * K « s left tfc « ttstittl ^ i thiatt , «* ' if sill the bishops hsif beetf lifet * UsfceiV t * e Pifesl ^ fertatts like * Marshall , and the fndcpeiittentsf like

    Burroughs , the'disofders of the church hadbeen easily Settled . " * The royaifetsi ehdeavour to connect Marshall ' s name With every thing that is wild arid intemperate . Wood calls ? him " areh flamen of tfce rebellious rout , " and

    Cleveland in his Riebel Scott says , ^ Roar like Marshal l , that Geneva ball , Hell and damnation a pulpit full ; f and they most impudently proclaimed , that he died " mad and raving' * from the remembrance of his crimes * t

    Atrocious calumny i His death was peaceful as his life was holy . § When the jfilence and the sacredness of the grave were sacrilegiously broken |( at- the Restoration , his remains were torn from

    their restingrplace ; but they were jningled ia a cotnrapn tomb with those of Pym and Blake , and other "high-minded men / ' and the estimation of after ages will be their

    monument . Butler has written a poem in ridicule of Pliilip Nye , or rather of" Philip Nyey Thanksgiving Beard / ' 51 As his talents placed him in an eminent situ * ation as the advocate of the republic , sb he vfras fixed oil at the Restoration

    for one to whom the act of amnesty should not extend . The Biogjraphia Britannica speaks slightingly of his character ; but though * on the one hand , the concurring testimony of contemporary Nonconformists unites in bis praise ; on the other , no charge

    * Neal , IV . 147 . * f Grang-er's Biog . Hist . •• 'f Efrchard . f ' Neai , IV . 14 ? . | f ^ -i u What guilt Can &jdal violations of the devLi ?* 4 fi t l [ i&v& sought curiously but unsuccessfully for some other ^ pictaf ^ of Nye , to compare with t ' higr huriiordus description : & Tina reverend brbthei-, like a goat , Bid wear a tail tipoh his throat , fhte frtuge atld dunafel of a f * . cfe - — * 4 * *

    ? iSfr&f cnt « 6 * 6 viti : * & if ^ thsA he ^ k Drawn with a pen upon , his chin ; No close and briotrj hed ^ of quicikset Was 4 % r so neatly dut o * tttltek ikl *» BuTLEir .

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    is substantiated against bi n ^ , but that he changed his opinions ^ b € ^ awie a liberal , instead of an intolerant preacher , an' Independent instead of a Presbyterian . B .

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    1 M Erection of a tfvtv Unitarian ( Nittpel dV ifoe West End < fftm&

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    Swakeleys , rtear Woiibridge Sir , Jan . % 1818 ; AM not ashamed to profess myself I one of those perhaps somewhat inconsistent uieitiber&i of the Christian

    community , who , devoted heart and soul to freedom of opinion , prefer st \\\ ajixed to a fluctuating formulary of devotion , and while they would be as precise and discriminating as possible in point of creed in their respective oratories , hold , that > a public liturgy can scarcely be too copiously

    scriptural or comprehensive . My object in making this avowal is simply to apologize , as well I may , for an attempt ta ascertain , through the medium of your widely circulated publication , what support Unitarians might be expected to give to the erection of a place of worship somewhere in the Western end of the

    metropolis , upon a scale considerably larger tton that of a » y which has hitherto been appropriated to the worship of the olie only true God , through his Son our Lord ; Jesus

    Christ , upon the following ; plan , and fundamental principles : The building not to fee projected till a sum pot less than = £ 20 , 000 were contributed or secured .

    The area in part open to the poor . The liturgy to be used in it , that of the Established Church , purged of all unscripturat language , but no other ; or C ^ vitK thijs limitation ) rendered unacceptable by alteration to any woyshiper wh ^ would be content to ** invoke the name" of the Son as

    " less tfiaii" thwdf the Father , and in that name always and alohc * to address aft ultimsit ( B prkyc ^ sliid praise to the blessed and onl y Potentate , whom no man h ^ th seen or can see , the God wlio is above all « md through all alndiii us all ; JP . T . CLARKE .

    P . 9 . Towardfe the co « t of such a csthoHo iton <} t « ary ,, I wtodd pledge ifi ^ e lf Jittd * ftfeft ^ J OV two Wthd attldurtt W Mt 66 &'

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1818, page 122, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2473/page/42/