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    beginning were once made 5 ii right earnest , it would proceed tin til by means of human energy and virtue , ( guided by infinite power , wisdom and goodness , ) the very state of things spoken of b } the Sacred Writers should be realized ; and earth be converted into heaven ? As none of your correspondents have noticed my former communication / ( XVIII . 450—457 , ) I begin to

    fear that these notions about co-operation have been prematurely stated Perhaps we must wait another century before they will meet with attention .

    PHILADELPHIA . V . , , r hir P . S « I beg Mr . Luckcock ' s pardon for overlooking his Postscript ( XVIII , 525 ) . He appears to think that no suggestion of rniqe should be attended to , unless I give my real name and place of abode . My name is a very

    co mm op one , and if I were to give it , few of your readers would be a whit the wiser ; I am but an obscure individual . When I require credence to any asser * tion on the strength of my own experience * nerely , I shall feel it proper to sign my real name ; but so long as vou allow others to communicate their

    speculations under assumed signatures , I trust your respectable correspondent , Mr . Luekcock , will not object to the same measure of indulgence being extended to me .

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    18 Mr . Woods , the ' Patriotic * Dissenting Minuter .

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    Choivbent , Sir , Jan . Oth , 1824 . N the communication from Dr . IEvans , respecting the Patriotism of two Dissenting Ministers of

    Lancashire , which appeared in the last Number of your Repository , ( XVIII . 690 , ) he wished for some information respecting them . Of the Mr . Walker therein mentioned , I cannot give him any information , never having heard

    of him before . But the character and fame of Mr . Woods are stilJ cherished and kept alive among the descendants of those who marched with him to battle . Mr . Woods was the grandson

    of the Mr . Woods who was ejected from his living at Ashton , in Lancashire , in 1662 . ( See Palmer ' s Non . Con . Mem . Vol . II . p . 83 . ) He was a firm friend to the religious and civil liberties of his couatrv , and a man of

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    ed by Mr . Woods and bis congrega * . tion on thkt occasion ; but ,- the reward therein said to have been bestowed on him by the government , I think is pot . The sum always reported to we , when the circumstance has been mentioned , has been only 100 / . And this , probably , was not

    ready &nd acute wit , inucli befoved by his congregation , and well fitted for the enterprise alluded to by Dr . Evans . He belonged to the Presbyterian denomination of Dissenters . He died at an advanced age in 1759 , having been the pastbr of the congregation here upwards of sixty years The extract from Rae ' s History , given by Dr . Evans , appears to be an accurate statement of the services

    performgiven until some years after , because it has always been stated , that , although given to Mr . Woods for his personal services , at the time alluded to , it was intended to assist in the erection of the present chapel , ( in 1722 , ) and by him so applied .

    Another circumstance , equally creditable to Mr . Woods and his congregation as the former , took place soori after , which deserves to be recorded and made known . The place iu which the Dissenters met for worship , previous to the erection of the present one , was in q , private chapel belonging to the Lord of the Manor . This was

    lent to the "Dissenters for their use . About the year 1 / 20 , two rival candidates started to supply a vacancy in the representation of the county , ot at a general election , one in the interest of the reigning family , the other in that of the exiled one . The Lord

    of the Manor supporting the latter , insisted on his tenants , who , being almost all Dissenters , and whose leases constituted them free-holders of the county , voting for the same ; but they , being strongly and zealously attached to the House of Hanover

    unanimously voted for the other . This so displeased the Lord of the Manor , that he instantly deprived them of their usual place of worship , and had it re-c ^ nsecrated . But this circumstance , instead of proving an injury to their cause , only strengthened it , and led to the erection of their present one . IL R . DAVIS . '

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1824, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2520/page/18/