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honour to preside . Any plan that tends to cement together the scattered fragments of our churches , I esteem
much lamented , and ever honoured friend and patron , the late William Russell , Esq .
peculiarly desirable ; and 1 sincerely hope that the time is not far distant when , instead of its being said of us , as Dissidents from the national establishment , that we are a rope of sand , it may be truly affirmed , that we are a chairi of well-tempered iron . No one can well entertain a fuller
conviction than I do of the indispensable duty of union among Christians . No teachers of morality and religion could ever lay more stress upon a careful and conscientious observance of this duty than our great Master , and his illustrious apostles , Paul and John ; and , in vain shall we pretend to be followers of these admirable instructors
if we continue divided and estranged one from another , and thus rendered comparatively impotent and inert j when , by concentrating our efforts , and acting in friendly concert , we might promote the cause of what we believe to be truth , so much more
extensively and effectively ' . As it could answer no good end to mention the obstacles which prevented ah earlier adoption of a Fellowship Fund amongst us , I will pass them over in silence ; but I deem it an act of justice to the merits of two very
excellent and worthy persons , a naval gentleman and his lady , ( whose names I have not permission to mention , ) whose company we had the honour and high gratification to enjoy for about six weeks , that it was owing chiefly to them that the intended scheme has been carried into
execution . Our date of commencement is November 1 , 1818 . We have only thirty-six subscribers at present , but hope to increase the number to fifty when our friends discern experimentally the benefits of the undertaking . I beg leave to subscribe myself a hearty well-wisher to every good cause .
THEOPHILUS BROWNE . P . S . Permit me to announce to the public , that having finished a selection and edition of the late venerable Dr . TotilmuTs sermons , I have also , nearly brought to a conclusion a small volume of " Supplicatory Addresses to the One God , to which are annexed a few choice hymns / * by my
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Addenda et Corrigenda , 751
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XIII . 89 , Col . 2 . —Mr . John Moor ( Moore ) at Tiverton . He appeared in the Western Trinitarian Controversy , by the following pieces : —~ " A Calm Defence of the Deity of Jesus Christ . In Remarks on a Letter to a Dissenter at Exeter / ' by John Moore of Tiverton , 2 d Ed . 1719 t pp . 48 . u The Calm Defence , &c > continued and maintained , against the Reasonings and Exceptions of the Author of the Letter to a Dissenter in Exeter , being a Reply to his Plain Christianity defended , 3 d and 4 th parts , 1 7 21 , " pp , 140 . Mr . Moore was
probably once resident at Bridgewater , where , as appears , p . 735 , the celebrated Dr . Thomas Morgan was a pupil of the Rev . John Moore . RFlexman . He was born at Great Torrington , Vevon , in 1708 , and died in London June 14 , 179 5 , in his 88 th year . Declining an offer from Mr . Moore to become his assistant at the
academy , " he was ordained , in 17 3 O * at Modbury . " Theoce he removed to Chard , arid in 1739 , to Broadford , Wilts . In 1747 , he removed to Rotherhithe , near London , where he continued to preach till 1783 . Dr . Flex man , " in 1770 , was appointed to be one of the compilers
of the General Index to the Journals of the House of Commons . The in * terestwg period of parliamentary proceedings , from 1660 to 1697 , comprehending Vol . VHI XL was assigned to him . His plan was submitted to a Committee of the House , soon after his appointment 5 and the execution of this elaborate work
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ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA . XII . 697—704 . —Memoir of Mr . Joyce . A correspondent , whose information was more correct than our own , writes as follows : ** In your interesting Memoir of Joyce , you have fallen into an error , not indeed of any moment . He officiated and
administered the . Lord s Supper at Prince ' s Street , the day when he underwent his painful and hazardous operation . When he returned home , Mr . Cline had been a short time in waiting for him . "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1818, page 751, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2483/page/23/
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