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that of his venerable and truly respectable brother * the Rev . John Toogood , M . A ., Rector of Kington Magna , Dorset . Another name he saw was omitted in that list , a friend of his , the late Rev . John Bristed , M . A ., Rector of St . Peter ' s and St . Mary ' s , Westcomb , Lewes , Sussex .
You justly call Mr . Toogood , the sincere friend of truth and freedom . His regard for evangelical truth was manifested about three years ago by a donation of 50 / . to the London Unitarian Fund Society ; and about ten days before his death , he gave the writer 10 / . more for the same
excellent institution . The friends of Mr . Toogood deeply regretted that his infirmities and sufferings necessarily deprived them , for a long time , of the pleasure and advantage of his conversation ; as they considered his conversational talents , when in health and free from pain , to be of no mean order .
The theological friends of Mr . T . were always gratified by the enlightened views he entertained of the Christian dispensation , by his intimate acquaintance with the Scriptures and sound Scripture criticism . The intimate associates of Mr . T .
will never forget the occasional flow of genuine wit , good humour and vivacity which they so much enjoyed , and which they found combined with a refined taste for general literature . The last time Mr . Toogood conversed with any friend was with the writer . He had not left him
half-anhour when he complained of being much worse than usual ; he went to bed immediately , where he remained from Monday evening until Friday morning , when he quietly fell asleep in Jesus . RUSSELL SCOTT . I . ^ M ^ M _
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720 Mr . B . Flower in Reply to Dr . J . Jones .
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——^• Dalston , Sir , Dec . 10 , 1821 . IT w ^ s neither my wish nor * intention ag-ain to have troubled you on the subject of Dr . John Jones ' s communications , in which he has taken
liberties the most inexcusable with my character ; but as several of your readers have expressed to me their surprise at my silence ; as I have reason to conclude that many more have felt equal surprise ; and as , f g r the first thne in ray life , 1 appear reduced
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to the situation of a writer who is afraid or ashamed to defend himself , I must , Mr . Editor , appeal to your justice and impartiality to allow me a page for the purpose of self-defence - y and I am determined , with your
permission , to endeavour to prevent a repetition of " that dirty piece of authorcraft , " ( to borrow the language of Archdeacon Blackburne , ) and practised by your learned correspondent , of indulging in offensive personalities against those writers he is unable to answer .
The mere statement of recent circumstances will be sufficient for my purpose . I beg leave to inform your readers , that early in the month of July last , I sent a communication for the Monthly Repository , in which , after briefly
remarking on the libel which appeared ( p . 279 ) under the signature of Dr . J . Jones , holding me up to the public as a " scurrilous writer , whose assertion had not any pretensions to credit , &c , " I proceeded , not only to
confirm the justice of the charge I had brought against him , of interpolating the Apostle Peter , to serve his own hypothesis , but to prove , from one of his subsequent communications , the necessity of the caution I had suggested , — "that he would not treat
profane , as he had sacred authors . " I likewise thought it my duty , as a friend to revealed truth , to expose some of those strange fancies , arrogant dogmas and pedantic criticisms , that have appeared in the Mon . Repos . and which abound in a work
published about nine years since , entitled , A Sequel to Ecclesiastical Researches , containing certain wonderful secrets * ' announced , " as the Doctor expresses it , " to all the world , " but of which , alas I not only almost all the world , but even , " the learned" were
ignorant until their more learned tutor so kindly condescended to remove that ignorance , in his communication to the Mon . Repos . ( p . 277 ) . In the following number , you , Mr . Editor , informed your correspondents , that " a communication had been received
from Mr . B . Flower ; " but at the expiration of another month , you favoured me with a note , in which you expressed a wish that I " would withdraw it , " assigning as a reason , — " The ? controversy is not one in which oujr readers generally take any interest"
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1821, page 720, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2507/page/24/
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