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ptiiess to differ from the Established Church in some tesser things , but while we agree in fu adameutals , why should there be among us strife a ud envyiflgs I The high charge we had yesterday from you of devilisb pride ,
arrogance , &c . I cannot account light , especially from one who should stand in the place of God , to guide and instruct us in the way to heaven , therefore I think it invidious to judge men ' s hearts , which none but God can do . It cannot be in itself sinful
to dissent from a church , else why did we cast off the yoke of Rome ? For my own part , I do freely profess that I have seen so much sincere piety , fervent cjiarity and humility practised in those I have joined with , and found that solid peace and tranquillity in the way I have walked in , that 1 trust I shall never be either allured or
frighted from it . The name of schism , that ecclesiastical scarecrow , is industriously , though falsely , thrown upon us , as I have seen proved . But if it is so , who is in the fault ? the imposers of things , they own unnecessary , on us , who dare not comply with them , yet
desirous to give up every thing for the sake of peace , but truth . 1 must say , as every impartial person will , that if the nonconformists are mistaken , they are the most unhappy to exclude themselves from every thing- that is
desirable in the world , and expose themselves to poverty , scorn and hatred ; yet I must do them that justice to tell yoq , I never remember to have heard any public reflection from any of them on the Established Church .
I need not here enter on the merits of their cause , which hath so many abler advocates , only I must take the freedom to express my resentment , that we have heard from the pulpit such keen reflections , as we cannot well
bear , and I am sure do no good to any . The great things of the gospel , faith in Christy repentance unto life and new obedience , these are enough to spend our zeal about . At * a worthy person writefr , " Our lives are short , our
work great , our souls precious , heaven and hell real things , and all that must be done for eternity- must be done quickly , or it will b * too late . 11 Therefore 1 am always glad to hear mmi $ ~ te *» inmt on these great th ings I w * S mueh affected many years ago wfth a fc «* mon I wtoUttom wu > on
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these words , " Purifying unto himself a . peculiar people zealous of good works . 11 I wish you would preach and pray as you did then . Yet , good Sir , excuse my freedom in giving vent to my own thoughts : I think there
is no family but ours , in the parish , that are accounted Dissenters , yet you know we are as true friends to you and the Church as any of the-parish , perhaps more than many that profess to be entire members of the Church
of England . As many of our family , attend you , as from most of any of the like number ; and it is to me sad * that we should be mote censured and worse thought of , than numbers who absent themselves through ignorance and carelessness . It is well we are
not to be each others' judges . Said rny honoured father when dying , " Follow peace and holiness , and let them say what they will , " which has been my siucere endeavour . And I solemnly protest I have not at all endeavoured to draw my children
into the same way , otherwise than what my example might do , though some of them have taken pains to study these points , and are not Presbyter by chance , but choice ; for I desire them not to pin their faith oil my sleeve , but to choose for them * .
selves , and if they take this despised way , it is not because they know fid other , but because they know no better . I have heard many eomplaii ^ that you speak so low that they ca , m scarce hear you , but I observed yesterday you could raise your voi ^ e ; but if I had foreseen our treatment I
think my seat would have been empty-I know not how they will answer it who beat their fellow-servants , am cast stones instead pf bread . 1 know not what the Church would have ; they have all the profits and
advantages they can desire , yet because ^ the government takes off their power to persecute , it avails nothing . But t am quite tedious , and beg your pardon a thousand times for my freedom with you . I truly respect your persoti atH $ ministry ; am satisfied you well know the great worth of all sot ) fa , and the
great danger of most , which thought will quicken yoiu te > ery aloud , and shew your hearers their aina and < f * ty before it be to 6 late What * b ! e * M * & place is heaven , where w | ll be tto difieioas <* # dksturbJtfte ** ft * ttfcH T&
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jlfirs . Savage ' s % eiter to & Curate * 46 $
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1818, page 429, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2478/page/21/
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