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a barbarous project , which violated the first rights and interfered with the first duties of nature , or of branding it , on behalf of their Christian brethren the Papists , as a design to ( f seek their destruction . "
I beg leave to add , that some of your readers may see a note in Vol . X . p . 489 , of Dr . Priestley ' s Works , where I have quoted several examples of manly opposition excited in 1714 by the introduction of this Schism Bill
into the House of Peers . There it was chiefly advocated by that bona jide Churchman , Lord Bolingbroke . P . 132 , col . 2 . " Sir Peter King /' a native of Exeter , and cousin of John Locke , afterwards Chancellor and Baron of Ockham .
P . 133 , col . 1 . " Mr . John Shower / ' the first preacher €€ at the Old Jewry / ' to which he removed with his congregation from Jewin Street . He was born at Exeter , his father being a merchant of some property there . Mr . Shower ' s " enormous contempt for such as lived in the country , " if
not unjustly charged upon him , may have been a pernicious effect of his own peculiar advantages for attaining a knowledge of the world . Besides passing some time at Utrecht and Rotterdam , he had spent the years 1683 and 1684 in the tour of France , Switzerland and Italy , during which he made a collection of valuable books .
" Mr . Shower , accompanied by his fellow-travellers , was so curious and hardy as to visit the top of the famous burning hill Vesuvius—and heard a terrible noise issuing from the bowels of the hollow mountain . From this scene of horror he was relieved by another of as great pleasure , when , looking eastrwards , he had a diffusive view of
Campania Felix , the garden of Italy , and beheld a wide and fruitful plain covered with beautiful cities . " He found , however , ** the country , in the compass of thirty miles about Rome , so dispeopled , that hands were wanting to cultivate the land , to turn up and till the fields lying neglected and unlaboured , as well as undrained of
stagnant and corrupted waters , engen ^ dering putrifactive ferments , and the seeds of pestilential diseases . " At Rome , during the Carnival , " hue and his company , among other diver * - sions , we ' re invited and admitted gratis to the operas and other dramatic per- *
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formances in the palace , and at the expense of Prince Colonna . " Here Mr . Shower appears to h ^ ve been ' * char med with the exquisite taste of music k " which he discovered in " % he Italian masters—when he went to the
diversions at that Prince ' s house , " and to have found " performances of the stage in Italy , as well as France—less shocking to modest ears than those of Great Britain . " Of this tour , the
traveller ' s fr iend and biographer , Rev . W . Tong , whom I have here quoted , has given a very interesting account CMemoirs , 1716 , pp . 21—43 ) . Mr . Shower died in 1715 , aged 57- He is mentioned in Dr . Toulmin ' s Hist . View , ( p . 230 , ) among Mr- Warren ' s pupilsa Ibid . " Sir Bartholomew Shower /*
who is said to have given occasion to " a heavy splutter , " was M . P . for Exeter , 1698—1700 . He w <* s " bred up a lawyer . " Mr > Tong adds , ( p . 4 , ) " How famous he was in , thai
profession , what eminent posts he held , and how he signalized himself in public affairs , both at the bar and in Parliament , is too well known % q need any farther mention . "
P . 134 , col , 1 . " Mr , H ^ liett—had high notions of the ministerial power . " These notions were , \ apprehend , such H 9 are expressed by Mj \ Hewlett ' s friend , Mr . James Feipce , in " ^ Sermon preached at an ordination , " and published in 1716 , under the title of
" Presbyterian Ordination proved regular . " From his text , 3 Tim . ii , 2 , and Matt , xxvlii . 20 , rendered according to the public version , the preacher argues , against the Independents , that , * ' to the end of the world , " Presbyters ,
find not the people , fire " to judge ot men ' s qualifications for the sacred office , " that " we read of the laying on of the hands of the Presbytery , but never of the laying on of the hands of the people , " and that we cannot " find the least intimation that
the apostles acted in the people ' s names when they ordained ministers . " The congregation are invited to unite with the Presbyters in prayers * ' for a blessing upon his person and labours , who is now to be set apart to minister in the church of Christ . This , then , "
adds the preacher , " so far is your act as well as ours . But the authoritative separating and commissioning him to tfie work is nof your act , but primarily the Lord ' s , and secondarily
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222 Notes on the Memoirs of Mr . J . Food .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1821, page 222, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2499/page/30/
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