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Mr . Scott in Reply to Remarks on his Sermon . 103
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Glasgow , Sir , January 17 , 1821 . OWE it to yourself and your readers I to take notice of the promise which I ventured to make of some account of the Life and Writings of the late venerable and learned Mr . Joseph
Bretland [ Mon . Repos . XIV . 494 ] . I have never relinquished this idea since I first formed it , although , soon after my communication to the Repository , I was led to alter the mode of publishing the materials I had collected . That
I have not hitherto accomplished my intention , is owing to a variety of circumstances unnecessary to be here detailed . In the simple and interesting narrative of the executor , prefixed to the two volumes of Discourses recently
published , we are presented with such particulars of the late Mr . B . as the life of a recluse student might be supposed to furnish . My own plan differs considerably from this , and is intended to include an examination of the opinions contained in Mr . Bretland ' s
papers in the Theological Repository , &c . I wish also to be able to subjoin some account of Mr . Bretland ' s literary and theological connexions , and of the progress of liberal theology in his time , and within his circle of influence . Yet
I dare not encourage the hope that I shall interest more than the younger and less-informed Unitarian . I feel , however , that I shall discharge a duty which my high veneration for the deceased prompted me , perhaps prematurely , to undertake , and shall be amply
rewarded for my pains if the narrative should excite or confirm in any breast that love for moral and theological truth , and that upright , patient , candid spirit in the search after it , for which Mr . Bretland was so conspicuous . The small publication which I contemplate
will be enriched by some very interesting letters , never before published , of the Unitarian worthies , Priestley , Lindsey , Toulrnin , &c . I am sorry that I have been able to procure so few of Mr . Bretland ' s own letters . My thanks are , however , due in particular to Mr . Joseph Priestley , to whom I applied
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for leave to consult the correspondence between his illustrious father and Mr . Bretland ; but , after inquiring for me on the other side of the Atlantic , he concludes that the loss of this is only one of the numerous injuries which the public has sustained from the Birmingham Riots in 1791 . I beg leave respectfully to solicit the advice and communications of such of my older friends as may be able to promote my design , the promptness of which will expedite the publication . B , MARDON . —¦
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treated with an unfeeling taunt ; but in p . 77 of the same volume , it is mentioned in those terms of candour , liberality and respect which it so justly merited . J . K .
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Portsmouth i Sir , February 9 , 1821 . IT is with reluctance I obtrude myself on the attention of your readers , but the animadversions of your Correspondent , the Inquirer , in pp . 12—14 of your last Number , certainly require that some notice should be taken of
them : allow me , therefore , to request the insertion in your next of the following remarks . The Inquirer , in refering to the Sermon I had the honour to deliver before the Supporters and Friends of the London Unitarian Fund Society in May last , says , " Though the preacher does not expressly mention the Inquirer ' s Four Letters to the Rev . Mr . Fox , he
has obviously alluded to them , by censuring the application there made of the case of Elymas" * ( Bar-Jesus ) . So far was I from alluding to these Four Letters of the Inquirer , that I am at this moment perfectly ignorant of their contents , not having read a single sentence of either of them , nor had I heard that the case of Bar-Jesus was referred to in them till after the Sermon was
published . The greater part of the second paragraph applies to Mr . Fox , and was doubtless intended as , at least , a shotwind for him , and to him I leave it . In the third paragraph the Inquirer remarks , " Surely this was a crime by no means peculiar to Elymas , neither are we justified in imputing this crime to Elymas , unless Mr . Scott can shewthat he had witnessed any miracle tilt that which deprived him of sight . " The
* Elymas is not the name of this person , but describes his profession as a magian .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1821, page 103, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2497/page/39/
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