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have been found thafc this Is not the fact . A bench immediately under the pulpit is appropriated to the use of the inhabitants of our Almshouse , and . the seats in its-- immediate neighbourhood are certainly not occupied by the m wealthy or most learned .
If your Correspondent observed any habitual irregularities in the conduct of some individuals , would it not have been better to endeavour to become swiiuainted with those persons , and in acquainted with those personsand in
, private to have represented to them the impropriety of their conduct ; or , if this were not practicable , to have requested either of our ministers to do so , and their admonitions would , no
doubt , have been received with the respectful attention they deserved , and have proved more effectual than the indiscriminate censure of an anonymous writer , whieh is more calculated to produce irritation than amendment . Instead of pursuing this line of conduct , which appears to me the most obvious as well as the most in
conformity with the Christian precept , " Do unto others as you would they should do unto you , " the Zealous Unitarian holds up to public reprehension
onefifth of this highly respectable congregation ; a congregation which , in point of . numbers , liberality , unanimity and zeal , is surpassed by none and equalled but by few . Zeal your Correspondent too has manifested , but it
is zeal which in this instance is not tempered with due discretion . I would willingly believe that the paper which has called for these remarks was written hastily $ and I cannot but think that the writer must , upon reconsidering the subject , < see the
injustice and impropriety of censuring so large a part of our society , after having been a member of it for only a very few months , and without having ascertained whether or not the charges brought against it are well founded . \ B
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it difficult < -fo > deny the * relationship , when they renaeaaber whafc Dto Priestley said of Mr . ) Jefferson , the uiiktel & * h ! e is generally considered as a » aabeliever : if .-so , howe ^ e *? , d&te ' cammt be far from u $ S" * >
I s&f mrthing of the style on Spirit of the passage ; I wi £ li only to expose the gross mis-statement which 5 t 4 m * tains . Any reader would suppose that Dr . Priestley represented JYJr . Jeffeison as not far from Unitarians , because he was an unbeliever . This the "
Congregational" writer evidently meant to be understood . Now then , Sir * for the fact . Dr . Priestley sent Mr . Jefferson a copy of his pamphlet , entitled < f Socrates and Jesus compared ^ the . object of which was , I need scarcely say , to shew the vast superiority o % our
Lord to the mere philosopher . The President acknowledged the present in a letter which expresses his high admiration of the character of Jesus , and his . regret that , through , the errors of Christians and the corruptions of Christianity , " the unthinking * part of mankind" should be induced '**¦ to
throw off the whole system in disgust , and to pass sentence as an impostor on the most innocent , the most benevolent , the most eloquent and sublime character that ever has been exhibited to man . " This letter Dr .
Priestley transmitted to Mr . Lindaey , with a few remarks . Speaking of the writer , the Doctor says , "He is generally considered as an unbeliever : if so , however , " ( that is , if he be really an unbeliever , — which the Doctor
seemed disposed , as well he might , to question , ) " he cannot be far from us , and I hope in the way to be not -only almost , but altogether what we are . He now attends public tvorship very regularly , and his moral conduct was
never impeached" * The plain sense of this is , that Dr . Priestley had the strongest hopes of ' - Mr . Jefferson ' s avowing himself an tJnitarian Christian , notwithstanding * his reputed
unbelief , in coiisequeftee of his texfHtes ^ mg himself m ^ emphatically in , - ^ liMticfti ' of the character of Christ , of his rettjrtt to puMic worship , ;^ Mch fi ^ l ^^ o . Mbly for a tirtie ^ suaej *! and'Of his uttimpeaehabte mottft chito&eWt . ^ Mxrit - * Belsh ^ to ^ iWfeWirfci ( ft tin ^ sey / Appendix , p . 540 ,
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Bigotry of the Congregational Magazine . 101
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¦ ' ¦'¦*' - 4 " # Mi ^ yife ^^^^^^^ » ' * ^ ^ ^^^^^^^^^^ BMH ^^^^^^^^^^ OIR , Y . : ¦ . , t PMHM 1 T iaie to brings under the notice , of your readers a paragraph relating , ta the l ^ itariaira , which appeared in tlfo Gontewg&tional Ma- > gazin& . fov Ifeisemfeer ISlSt , p . 756 . Altbatighv i % certainly mitet * be very <« sagreeable just now ^ W > ha \ re mth a shabb y ih £ < foF > gMS ^ > CWlile ) efeiming ^ uidred with them * yet they will find
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1820, page 101, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2485/page/37/
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