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curred with me , for the sake of avoiding tiip ^ agreeable and unpleasant circumstance of refusing . In conclusion , permit me to remark , that the style and manner assumed by your first Correspondent are calculated to make an unravourable impression upon the readers of your liberal publication .
The truly respectable are anxious to see no papers but what breathe a spirit of the most gentleman-like urbanity Unitarians , of all Christians , should be mild and calm reasoners , not literary gladiators , who , the moment they fancy they descry an enemy , rush upon him with reckless impetuosity , and imagine
they gain a triumph by the free use of angry and hasty assertions . If the applications made to Fellowship Funds cannot always be complied with , and the consequence of a notification in any case being made to this effect is , that a huffing , violent remonstrance is to be made , the subscribers will be
tempted to withdraw their contributions , determining to shut the door of their beneficence altogether , rather than expose themselves to rude and ungrateful attacks because they cannot give to all .
A sensible and judicious writer in The Christian Reformer for last month , has an observation to this effect : — " Rash language may shew that a man has wit , or display in some measure his talents , but it can never do any good to his cause . " Indeed , the use of rude , offensive words , betrays a secret consciousness of a bad cause , and
they who have no other knowledge of a system of any kind , than that it is supported by acrimonious language and bad manners , will consider it as self-condemned . For the sake of that religion which your Correspondents advocate , I would advise them by all means to be temperate and guarded in its defence , to restrain the vehemence
of their indignation , and prune the morbid luxuriance of their imaginations , remembering how insignificant a matter it is to silence an individual , if by such means they do silence him , whilst they are inflicting a deadly blow upon their cause , and keeping in mind the solemn declaration of an apostle , th $ k * ' the wrath of man worketh not the R ighteousness of God . " 1 am , Sir , without reserve or disguise , THEOPHILUS BROWNE .
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Islington , Sir , November 6 , 1820 . TN the two last Numbers of the JL Monthly Magazine , I have vindicated the memory of my worthy relative , Dr . Caleb Evans , of Bristol , whose political principles , in conjunction with those of the great and good
Dr . Price , are traduced without mercy by Mr . Robert Southey in his Life of Wesley . I would now point out a theological portion of that work , in justice to the Biographer , which has my approbation . It exhibits a trait in the Founder of Methodism which it would well become his numerous
followers to imitate , and proves that the Poet-Laureat , amidst his new highchurch connexions , has not lost all relish for the exercise of Christian charity . This , I trust , will not be deemed an unappropriate communication for your Miscellany .
" Mr . Wesle y" ( says his Biographer ) " had a degree of charity which has seldom been found in those who aspire to reform a church , or to establish a sect . c We may die , * he says ,
without ; the knowledge of many truths , and yet be received into Abraham ' s bosom ; but if we die without love , what will knowledge avail ? Just as much as it avails the devil and his
angels I I will not quarrel with * you about any opinion : only see that your heart be right towards God ; that you know and love the Lord Jesus Christ ; that you love your neighbour , and walk as your Master walked , and I desire no
" ¦ r t j-m m * w more . I am sick of opinions . I am weary to hear them . My soul loathes this frothy food . Give me solid and substantial religion ; give me an humble , gentle lover of God and man—a man full of mercy and good faith ,
without partiality and without hypocrisy ; a man laying himself out in the work of Faith , the patience of Hope , the labour of Love 1 Let my soul be with those Christians , wheresoever they are , and whatsoever opinion they are of . Whosoever thus xfaeth- * ne
will of my Father which is in heaven , the same is my brother and sister and mother l This temper of mind " ( adds Mr . Southey ) " ^ ed him to . judge kindly of the Romanists and of , Heretics qf every description , wherevera Christian disposition and virtuous life were found . He published the lives of several Catholics , and of one Soci-
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662 ' Dr . J . Evans on JSteuthey ' s Life of Wesley .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1820, page 652, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2494/page/24/
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