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Or tihr ^ e hour s , during- which he con-( iescended to exchange with me . at least a hundred Words . I happened to meet with him afterwards at Ediuburgh , where # bout an equal degree of intimacy prevailed . Beyond this , his " friendship" for me and mine for Mm never went .
Again , I was introduced to the public as a minister " through our influence / ' —Now , I certainty feel very highly obliged to Mr . I . for this exertion of his influence ; but I have of lkte received so many uncourtly rubs froftr
that part of " thle public , " to which he did me the honour of introducing me , that I must confess my obligations to him , on this account , are not so weighty as I sincerely wish they had been .
* Further , I was educated for the ministry " at our expense . " Here a simple statement of facts is required . Before I was connected with the Baptist Missionary Society , I had studied several years at the Grammar School
of-my native town , and had passed one session at the University of St . Andrew ' s . After I was connected with that Society , at their expense I studied about fourteen months at Bristol , six months at Glasgow , and three months at Edinburgh . Here my education ended , in so far as it was carried on
at their expense ; and for the aid which was thus afforded me , I shall ever feel grateful to those members of the Baptist Missionary Society who would disdain on this , or on any other ground ^ to lord it over nay conscience \ but to those , if such there be , who ,
like Mr . J ., can employ such an argument for such a purpose , I am not ashamed to say that I find it extremely difficult ' to keep alive any feeling of gratitude . It may not be altogether Improper to remind Mr . I . that there are or have been certain Missionaries
who , from Independents or Gongregationalists , have become Baptists . I ) id Mr . I . ever tell the public at whose expense Mr . Judson , Mr . Rice , Mr . Bruckner and Mr . Harle , received their education ? Did he ever bring against them t ^ e charg e of imitating " the worst p ^ rt of the worst man ' s conduct" ? v
Finally , I was once a member ** of our churches ^* and , because I have ceased to be so , therefore Mi \ I . reasons , I have imitated " the worst part *> f the worst man ' s conduct " Was
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eyer such an indictment supported by siicb evidence ? Admitting , howeVi&P * which Mr . I . * s argument $ eariy Ire ?* quires , that Baptist Churches are secret associations for some coriti&rtled purpose , which , having once en tered ; it is unlawful ever to leave , and that €€
I have betrayed tour churches" by ceasing * any longer to be a member of them , then , according to Mr . I ., this betrayal of u our churches" is worthy to be described as an imitation of the betrayal of Jesus Christ by Judas ; from which it follows , that as I unfortunately bear a strong resemblance to Judas , so we and ¦¦ . ' * our
churches" deserve to lie p laced in comparison with the Son of God and the Saviour of the world . Did ever
Unitarian so < c insult" Jesus Christ as to place himself on a level with that divine Teacher ? Apologizing for the length to which my remarks have extended , I am , &c . W . ADAM . Calcutta , Sept . 9 , 1823 .
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170 Dr . Evans ' s Defence of Dr . Doddridge against the Eclectic Reviewers .
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Islington , Sir , , March 4 , J 824 , f ~ l ^ HE Eclectic or Calvinntyc Re-A view for January 1824 , notices the volume of Sermons by Mr . Toller ,
recently published , together with the prefixed Memoir , by the Rev . Itobert Hall . The obnoxious paragraph of the biographer , lamenting the awfully prevalent spirit of free inquiryat Daventry Academy , where Mr . Toiler was educated , on which I
animadverted in your last miscellany , ( pp . 83—38 , ) is extolled to the sk ) es . This is what was to be expected , in perfect unison with the & 1 « aiftcter of that periodical publication the avowed org ^ n of a party . But with this ebullition of zeal against free inquiry * the
Reviewers are not contented . They proceed to do what the good sense of Mr . flail withheld him from doing—attacking Dn Doddridge for suffering free inquiry to be indulged by his
students for the ministry ! They , indeed , denominate him " the devout and holy Doddridge ; " but devout and holy as he was , he , it seems , set first of all the pernicious example , which Messrs . Ashworth and Robins imitated ,
so as to endanger the salvation both , of their pupils for the ministry , and also of the flocks afterw&rds committed to their care in different parts of the country . This attack upon
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1824, page 170, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2522/page/42/
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