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fstith / ' the re ^ enefathig hifl « eBces irf xvhich will h * experienced by all the ftitxtre ages and naeioiis Gf the World , it ^§ W ^ <( # ¦ a ^ Sliittsr : waiter « # words if 1 were to ^ attempt ta vindicate myself from the charge hi *'< institoing ^ term Even Mr . L toust consider suck an
attempt unnecessary , for toe evidently employs it only as an argumentum ad inMdkiin , without reflecting on the serious naturew ^ ie charge which He brings . Vi ^^ jiilite , asaiiargriraent , it shetvfc the ^ m ^^^ ndmes ( k % d per&oa who can dm ploy such tfeasonkig j -ta& if we r (^ a ^^ l §^^ gi ^ it discdvers ^ the bad passion ^ the man t ^ d eaii stoop td > | i 8 ^ h ^ abusiewH - w ¦ > 6 . : 'IS come nbvr ^ S 1 : if charge \ vlrfch tntiy Mk ^^ c ^ ui ^ iMe the o&dntery to &ubscr& 3 vfrith Ms name * I hope that no otter Baptist minister is to be found between Caithness and
Ctonwall who has sufficient contempt for the favourable opinions of ^ gMgffig sufficient % spl § for the restrtift ^ M decency and * el % i < fti to do itfl tJH ? lily others are to be found , I ca | r only mourn fever ike evil signs of the Baptist denomination , " lament their
errors « nd aberrations" friy& t&e paths of practical piety , genuikie ~ lfamiHty and honest dealing , and use iny best endeavours to expose themy as I now do to expose Mr-1 . T 0 d 6 this eflfectually , J transcribe the climax in which he collects all the high crimes and
misdemeanours of which I have been guilty . * Is it ivot a rational cause for lai&entatibn /* he askd , saxd white the word rational was distilling from his pen , bigotry was distending his lieart ^ - *** la it not a rational cause
for lamentation , when men who were once members tff out churches ; who were educated for the ministry at or * r expease 5 who W 6 r # inf wkacea to the public as ministers through our influence ; who owe every thing they nre , as public men , to our friendship - , should have itnittitcd the worst patft of the worst ihatVs conduct ? * Be
that eateth bread with nie hatli lifted up hid he ^ l dgain ^ t trie . '" Let iid fir ^ t exaiiiine tbte cliatrge , in order tfeat vwe naay understand it ^ and then its proofs . I an ^ , in Mr . I / s opinion , one of those who " have imitated the worst part of the worst mail * conducts" WIijo
then was ** the ivorst man" ? By comparing' the passage from the Psalms given abore , with the context i& WMdi it . is quoted bv our Lord Uiktself ,
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^ John xHi . 18 , ) itvvJU ' agpe ^ r thatMr f ^ l by these t ^ roas , ^^^¦ t 00 ^ Judas l ^ ftdtni'pit ^ part ; off * Jutdas ^ l c 0 iticiui ! l ? ¥ Ji m ^ b undoubtedly the betrayal of his Lord and Master into the hands of his ertemies . Ih ihh $ en $ e , ; I $ uk aefe ^ lisedl ^ f
** having imitated the !* worst pw&M the wdrst maa s eoiiriuet ^* . Such is tke bharge ^ No ^ w fo r th ^ ^ ro o ^ few r tm Befof « i pfoeeeiiing ; hoWeJveiv ta a separate consideration <> f the paf tictifers j ^^ h Mr . L eQ 3 iaieitttfeS , let 1 * be admitted that tMy contain nothing but wM | U tf u ^ i inr ifce most un qualified sense . ; Let It b& admitted that I
was once &nieint > # ^ o 0 dur < M ^ ck ^ B that I wasMiicMM for the miaiati ^^ a * our eK ^ m $ W ^ Wk I * wfa IWrodbfced to the |© toWf iffl ^ isjer , ^ tWflmpi vUr infii ^ e |^^^ f ^^^^ i » thing I am , ^ m ^* i&&&ft ^ r ^
MvMship . " WtaJfWe | } * Wti& # U withstanding ftese o 61 ig # ipliip ?^ a ^ e presumed ^ Ixercis ^ the ri j ^ %# ^ pivati pflg ^ iit ^ ^ impelled by fp ^ brce of ifectii&iiiyed evideaee ^ I t ^ re altef ed my opinion 011 a subject wMcMinvolve ^ in Mfr . I / s view , ho le ^ s important alternatives tlian eternal happiness and eternal misery ; and because I will not rfeliiiquish this rigliti because I ea # to 0 * ifesi&t this evideifee , and beeatis& ^ heither will nor can commit
my eatf ^ cienee ^ in so weighty a matter , to Mr . I / s keeping * there / ore it is that I am accused of having * imitated the worst jaitt of the worst man ' s eonduct / ' Mia ^ Yet this is the man who prides hiiSsett % n his " acquaintance with the right of private judgment , and the advantages of unfettered discussion . " With such an illustration
of Mr . I / s professions , I may be jus tified in considering * that ** private judgment aiicb unfettered diseufe ^ ott are not greater strangers to the apostolic head of the Romish Ctiurck , who is 5 liifallible , th » n they air 0 to tlie etect ^ Pastor of Eagle-Street Meeting VVfeo ir " never in the wrong . "
But Mr . I . ' s premises are not correct to the extent which his words express . It appears I owe every thitig I am , as a public man , "to our friendship . " In truth , I find it nearly as difficult to recollect the period when I etijoyed Rlr . I / s " frieiiidfeMp / Vas t | te Hiniloo does to remember the < leeds
of his pre ^ exi < ato ttt state . Idid , indeed , once see him in London , and was in his cotnpany perhaps altogether two
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VOL . XIX . Z
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1824, page 169, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2522/page/41/
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