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To this remark , as i % applies to the Doctor ' s reteaat effusions , I perfectly agree ; and I may add , that to my knowledge , they are , to many of your readers , as disgusting as they are uninteresting . You added , "That an oversight of yours allowed the insertion of the Doctor ' s P . S . which is so justly
offensive to me ; and that if the controversy rested , you would say any thing in the Correspondence by way of explaining my feelings on the subject . " Here I beg leave to remark , that having expressed these feelings in the communication alluded to . and
observing your silence on the subject in subsequent notices , I concluded , that amidst your important avocations , the matter had escaped your memory * This plain statement will , I toast * be de@i&ed a sufficient apology for mjr silence , respecting the firs * of the libels , which I dismiss , as entitling its author to my pity .
As to the manner in which the Doctor has , in your last Numfrer , attempted to support his former calumny , and the new calumny with which he has bespattered my character , I shall leave both to the notice of my old , uniform , and consistent friend , Mr . Rutt , who I hope will inflict some additional wholesome chastisement o »
the author . All that is necessary on my part is , to request the reader to re-peruse my former communication , ( p . 208 , ) and I am persuaded th « at he will fully acquit me of the charge of * ' having by my rudeness and violence forgot to respect myself , apd thereby lost the rfcfcpect of others , " A word or two with the Doctor at
parting . You , Reverend Sir , " have it seemingly , " after all your learned parade , " yet to learn" a very plain lesson suggested by a vulgar proverb : — €€ The man whose house is made of glass should be peculiarly cautious how he throws stones" Had I ,, either in
prmt or in the social circle ^ expressed myself in those terms of " rudeness and violence /* with which I am sure the Editor of the Mon . Repos . would not permit any one to airily his pages , there might have been laoine grouridt
tor your last charge . But where Sir , was your * conscience when you advanced such a charge against w * e ? ^ erbum sat mtpientii I sincerely hops that yow acknowledged talent *
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ami learning may in future be employed in " contributions move conducive to the i&te * ests of truth , and the credit of the Mori . Repos ., " tium som& of t&pse which have recently appeared % tkpse which have recently appeared %
tfe ? $ you may habitually call to minid the " dying words of Grotias * ( Sow many learned mfcn might ' -with ? tottclt greater propriety feave adopted them I ) Prok I Vitum perdidi , oper&sv mhil agenda ! With tk' * se friendly hints I bid the Doctor—Farewell f BENJ . FLOWER .
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Notes on the Memoirs efMft & Fb& . 7 $ &
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Clapton , Sir , Dec , 10 , 1821 . ADD the following farther * e * I marks wMeh have occurred to me ,
on reading Mr . Fox * s papers * P . 193 , coL 1 . " Mr . Burroughs never read his Sermons , but preached them . " Mr . Fox was not singular in making this distinction . It has been well explained in an anonymous pamphlet now before me , republisbed in 1778 , entitled 7 Reading no Preach ing ; or the Fashionable Mode of delivering Sermons considered ^ as oppo ** site to Scripture , the Practice of the Primitive Church . Reason and the
Common Sense of Mankind , in a Lefc ^ ter to a Clergyman of the C&ureh of Engt&n d *" Fl 257 , col . 2 . " Mr . Nathaniel Hawfing" was , I apprehend , tHe Hfoderaior of the Assembly at Exeter , kk
May , 1719- la " the Western Inquisition , " ( p . 178 , ) Mr . Peirce describes him as , on one occasion , •* acting a truly honourable part , ^ and add p * " I must do Mr . Harding the justice to own , that I never saw the chair better
filled . " P . 258 , coL 2 . €€ Old ^ Mr . Warnjn of TsLunton . " He died in 1706 ^ aged 63 . See Calamy ' s CmUmimtiimy p . 747- Palmers Nmcon . Mem . * 1893 , III . 186 ; Toulmm ' a Mist . Vieu > + p . 230 . D * . Toulmki mentions to Mr .
Warreflfs j « st praule , " tfeat he encouraged hia ptipils in freedom of ia ^ tary , and in the study of those authors who were better suitefl to gratify the love of knowledge and truth , even th < n * g $
they differed from the writers on whQm he had formed his own sentiments ^ and th&t " while Bur ^ ersdkiws ox D& * rodon ^ ami m ethics Eus ^ aciu ^ ww $ used as text-books in the lecture room ; Locke , Le Clerc and Cumberland were guides to just thinking ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1821, page 721, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2507/page/25/
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