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Hest childhood , he had some knowledge of the leading characters visiting the Wells for a long tract of time . He mentioned , among other incidents , that Seeker , . Archbishop of Canterbury ,
would in his morning walk over Mount Ephraim , look in upon him , conversing freely on the Athanasian Creed , Adult Baptism , and other topics of controversial theology . This eminent Prelate was educated among the
Dissenters . Though elevated to the Archiepiscopal mitre , he retained much of Jii $ original simplicity . Seeker was the correspondent of Lardner ; the latter thanking him for a publication sent ; him , was reproved by the former for an excess of compliment on the
. Mr . Haine 3 was the friend of the poor . Familiar with the roediemal virtues of the vegetable world s he readily , as well as gratuitously , applied his knowledge to the remedying of
diseases amongst the lower classes of the community . A small painting of this apostolic man was shewn me by his niece , living at his usual residence , Gilead Cottage , Mount Ephraim . It was impressive . A folio herbalist lay open before him on a table , indicative
of the benevolent employ in which he delighted , whilst his aged features and locks white as the driven snow , gave him the appearance of an inhabitant of the antediluvian world .
Such is the state of religion at Tunbridge Wells . With due respect for the Church of England , and its illegitimate offspring the Methodists , I cannot but lament the extinction of
the regular Dissenters . They are the advocates of the right of private judgment , of the sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures , and of the glorious cause of civil and religious liberty ! There is no harm arising from diversity of
sentiment when clad in the garb of love s \ Xkd amity . It is , however , mortifying to reflect , that at so respectable a place as Tunbridge Wells , there should cease to exist a class of religionists in whose creed the leading feature is , that every individual should think and s * et for himself in matters of
conscience . Bigots like Samuel Johnson , who advised his reader to imitate Dr . Isaac Watts in ^ verv thing except lite JSToncopformity , > viu rejoice in the destruction of all sectansts ; but the Ufrer « l ami enlightened Chwtiaa must
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JVhitchurch * Sir , July 2 , IS 20 . HAVE made the following extract I from the Gentleman * s Magazine for August 1773 , that your readers may be informed of a fact that I
believe is nbt generally known , viz . that Bishop Sherlock , Kke Archbishop Tillotson and many other great and good men , did not approve of the Creed commonly called the Creed of St . Athanasius r
" His ( Bishop Sherlock * s ) opinions on some controverted points were far from orthodox in his latter years , nor did he at ail approve the Athanasian Creed , nor his own writings against Bishop Hoadly , which , he told me * , he was a young man when he wrote , and would never have collected in a
volume . " Permit me to add , that I am persuaded it would be highly interesting to Unitarians , especially to Unitarian
ministers , were you or some other gentleman to republish in a separate work , the principal articles of the Theological Repository , —a work seldom now to be met with , but which contains the writings of many able men . J . M .
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Brief Notes on the Bible . No . XIV . " I and my Father are one . " John x . 29 , THIS and some corresponding texts have been so often and ^ o well
explained to signify simply one in mind—in will—in purpose—chiefly , if not wholly , in reference to the gospel dispensation , —that I am not about to retrace the argument by insisting in
detail upon this very obvious construction of them , obvious as the light to minds unblinded by early prepossession or habitual prejudice . But it cannot be uninteresting to consider tyriefly in what sense these declarations were received oy those to whom jljiey were addressed . >¦ : -.
The Jews we |! e , always , on t ^ e alert tA entrap our SavioAir in tiefdisc ^ urses , and to ca 4 ich : ^ t ; a ^ y eqSttiTOterfe « p ^ e » - sion that might fdll frdnihltiti thftibio
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exult in the spread of Truth , under any form , and , along with'ft , in the diffusion of Christian charity . ' JOHN EVANS .
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510 Brief Notes on the Bible . No . XIV .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1820, page 510, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2492/page/10/
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