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for an affair of business : on whom then should the work devolve but on the lay officers and guardians of the congregation , the Deacons and Trustees ? The ' * Board" say , that < c very severe reflections have been thrown out against them" for their decision in this case : the case then would seem to be
new : and knowing that you have many Dissenters amongst your readers , I write in hope of bringing the affair iuto calm discussion . CANTABRIGIENSIS .
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have to object" to them on that account , if they had kept perfectly clear of personal insinuation . In the Inquirer's Letters , however , I am sorry to observe something of this kind , and in the first Letter of the " Old Unitarian "
an individual was brought forward , not indeed by name , but in such a way as made misapplication impossible , and provoked a retort from that individual , severe , indeed , and much too personal ,
but still open and manly . Now , no one can read the Letters of the Inquirer without perceiving that the author knows more of Mr . Fox , and wishes to shew that he knows more of him
than is to be learnt from the printed sermons of Mr . Fox . Pride and selfconceit are attributed to him , and that not sparingly ; and this is done under the mask of inquiry and expostulation . Differing from Mr . Fox in some points widely , more widely perhaps than either The Inquirer or Hylas , I cannot consider this as either fair or Christian
treatment . If " The Inquirer" wished to confute any of Mr . Fox ' s arguments the field was open to him , and he was not obliged to disclose his name ; but he has not confined himself to the subject of Mr . Fox ' s Sermon . He has given a number of rambling , unconnected observations on
Umtarianism and on Unitarians , and left his readers to apply them how or where they please , and he has occasionally insinuated the applicability of his remarks to Mr . Fox himself , in a manner which , if it be not called tmkind , wwcandid and t / wcharitable , might at least have been more kind , more candid and more charitable . The author of
these Letters , however , does not write like one who had any personal ground of dislike towards Mr . Fox , but as if he had singled him . out in the way of illustration . The main design of his Letters seems to be to put his readers on their guard against the more zealous
of modern Unitarians , and Mr . Fox happening to be one of these , his case was a case in point . It could have been wished , however , that this attack had been conducted differently . As it is , the impression is not certainly in ** The Inquirer ' s '' favour .
A word or two by way of remark on a passage in " the Letters" on which I have been commenting . After some just remarks on the danger of associating ourselves too closely with
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158 On " The Inquirer ' s" Letters .
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Sir , A 8 I see by your last Number , [ pp . 12—14 J that "The Inquirer '' is a reader of the Monthly Repository , I will not delay transmitting a few remarks to that publication ,
which may possibly catch his eye , and which , as they are written in a friendly spirit , I hope will be read with indulgence . I am sorry to see in any of your correspondents a partiality for what has been called bush-fight ing ; a species of attack which , though it may suit the Mohock Magazine , I
wish were completely banished from Christian publications . Your own judgment and candour , Sir , has hitherto effectually prevented the Monthly Repository from becoming a vehicle for the propagation of personal invective in any great degree : but I am for once going to do the very thing I blame in others : I am about to become a
bushfighter myself in . order to remark upon the practice , and I hope you will not find me disposed to severity upon any one of the correspondents who has yet appeared publicly and openly in your magazine . " The Inquirer" has attracted so much attention , that I am desirous of beginning with him , now
that I see him in the Repository , though it is fair to allow that his Letters to Mr . Fox , being published separately , seem to have nothing to do with that Miscellany . From the very evident similarity , however , of style , of sentiment , of quotation and illustration , between the Inquirer's Letters and
those of the Old Unitarian , and of Hylas , it has , I believe , struck most of those who have read them all , that they must be the work , if not of one person , at least of two person * in very -close communication with each other ; and I sec not what reason we should
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1821, page 158, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2498/page/30/
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