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fmtik * mm m ® & *>?> P ! $ w P $ ffctdfgWJ * $ I $ re 4 liy all denominations form erudition , candour && piu&ty , Wfti * bigots ,. his truly Christian llbterality is * A stumbling-stone and the *•** # $£ jtffe * $ ek However high their pretensions t # Qrtho 4 o * y , tfese * eligiomsts forfeit all cUim to the xiaiiie of Protmtcmt Dissenters . Their corjr
d #$ t j # ^ glwi ^ g ly offensive . Catholics and Churchmen look down upon them with contempt . ' JMore odious thw legitimate Popery , away wfrhjUis bas * - tard Protestantism from off the fac $ of the ea » Fthl Give nje . hack Popes
# nd Councils , Bulls and Anathema ^ with all the paraphernalia of px <> u 4 Infallibility I They hav ^ , at least , tft § praise c > f c < m ^ tteney I Rut . Ws who j > ri 4 e djiipekes pa free inquiry / qg candour and 0 $ liberality , when we coateud witfe qur adversaries either of of
of t ^ C h « rc h Rp tfi © or the Church of England , ought ii ^ ver tp ti ^ rn oi * r back s upoji the first principles vgpwr profusion . Shame , sbajnQ on § mh pr ^ f ^ sprs of Christianity 1 The ? pine of Pr ^ toto / JDi $$ enter g liould be resplendent in the annals of tJbsQ CrQss , aey ^ r for a qaoinent
suffer-Ulg its lustre tQ be t ^ nisUed by th ^ foul breath of intolerance and bigotry f rre-eu > ineat , iqd e ^ d , are the pbliga * tion ^ to gospel charity I Eypn tha t haughty prelate Samuel Horsley % ( bough recliaing upon the downy
couch Qt preferment , yet knowing that h ^ h ad siftnpd grievously against her claims in his eontr ver 3 y with the iorjnkUible hor ^ siarch Priestley , paci * fied his perturt > fti ^ oujsciene ^ at tho close of Hh ( 5 contest with this ipemoi able declaration ; " Whatever of
intemperate wrqth and carnal anger hath runted itpe ^ f on either side . with the z ^ al with vytvteh w ^ have pursued our fierce cQnt £ r * tiQi * , may it b ^ fo rgjlven to us bgtfa , is a prayer which I of
breathe frpm th ^ bottotn my soul ^ and tp which my antagonist , if hei ^ ath p y part in the spirit $ f a Chris ^ tiap , upon hi $ bended knees will say , Amen . " The reader will excuse my faking leave of this subject , by ijqeiitioniQg iny much ^ respiected relative , % \\ v H % v Dr . Cqleh &v <* n *!> Preside ^ qf the
ing the exercise of candour , moderation , and free inquiry amoiiR prot |} 9 };) ft « ifc Di ^ - suuters , hQ add ^ ,, *• W ^ must W » e tp ^ Ai > or cowie tQ nothing f
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pafitieit Aca ^ o ^ y jftt ^ ipfip ^ : ^ f f !) te hijai I had th ^ felicity to $ e educated . As cheplogicirt to ^? ^ $ k footsteps of J ) od&i $ ge x wl # 3 £ titi&r rality > yas the theme of coramendatiou W all his students ia divinitjr * lj ^})
recollect his checking some pupils ii > whom he discerned symptoms ojf WPt charitableness and t ^ igotry . Whetf 4 wprthy brother miaister published an Hudibrastic Poem , entitled , 7 % ^ 1 Sfef Gmtan Ca mpion , virhich was admired by mapy | n hiscpnnexi ^ , l ^ e disap ^ proved both r of its design a » d tw *
deucy , wisely reprobating the infidel maxim of Shaftsbury , that I'ldiciil ^ was % h ^ to § t of truth ! J # de 0 ^ t&e best controversial piece |> r . Eyiau ^ ever wrote , \ vas a flqt % to 3 Di > Priest-} ey ! a ^ dd ^ re ^ to the Professors of Christianity ; yet Ue never JfiaUei to speak of his talents and virtues in
terms of tb £ warmest adipiration , An 4 in his la § t publiqation , < mi the Doctrine of th $ Atonement ^ he has these w 6 rd « in the Dedicatory Address to his Coa-r gregation : " It has never been my custom , as you well know , to give hard names to those that differ from me ever * oa of
subject ^ the highest Importance , and you will not > therefore , expect any thing of the kind in this publiea-, ( ion . The wrath of man will never work tke ^ righteoufness of Ood 9 and J hope I have learned to tremble at ths
worcl of my Divine Master . Who arf thou that judgest another man ' s ser * vant ? Railing accusations may h& as easily applied to the support of error as of truth , and can only t $ i * 4 in either ease to inflame * i ^ ever to
convince ^ or persuade . o ught as sincerejy and ch ^ rfully to admire tha virtues of those that may differ from hs the most widely , as we would wislx to detect and avoid their $ rror $ /*
Upon these enlarged princjplea , Z )*\ Caleb Evans conducted th ^ particular Baptist Academy at Bristol , which * under him , in conjunctipn with the Rev . James Newton and the fiev %
Robert Hall , attained to an unexampled prosperity . Sincerely do I hope and trust that the theological tutors of our academical institutions may imitate the illustrious
Dqtid p dge in hh career of caodour and inn partiality , which formed the glory Qf his character and rendered hina a blessing tQ the religious world . lie kept pure and translucent the
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Dr . Emm ^ s Defence tf Dr . Dotldrhl gt against the ^ teetic Reviewers . | J $
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1824, page 173, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2522/page/45/
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