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Plymouth , Sir , September 6 , 1824 . AM obliged to youi : correspondent I ( p . 474 ) for po ^ tipg out an error iii the Lectures on Nonconformity , ^ s I sh ^ ll be most truly obliged to spiy person who , either in this public
manner , or by private communication , wijl inform me of any thing in which I lifive mistaken my sutyect ^ In all cases of historical statement \ ve are under a necessity of using the autho-
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mY m < tifom # , $ m £ fce best we can da is | p sgfeGt vriuMt we believe 10 be the most correct . I h&ve endeayoured to 4 p so , t > nt > not without the fear , that I should grr in many particulars ; and although I did regret ithat the lirafc edition ® f the LscJmres went no farther
t&an fpm kmArm , yet I ana now satisfied that it is better it should have beer > ^ , 0 ; siflceit will be ia my power , as it sl > aLl be my endeavour , to make the ne ^ t edition m ore comprehensive , more ooirj&et , and , therefore , more complete than the first .
Lat ** ie beg your correspondent to st ^ te rather more particularly , which , if fee pleases , he may do in a letter addressed fQ mysel f * wherein the great daflersqce between my statement of tfee Bisb ^ p a election , and that which be has gwen , consist ^ rr-rto justify his
spying that mine is erroneous in every particular . I may not have expressed my self in legal terms ; but if the word permmian we % & changed for order or authority , it seems to me that I have pot erred ; unless I have falsely seated , that a religion service is connected
with the act , in which the assembled Bishops unite in asking the aid of the Almighty to make a proper choicevpjxilg ih&y fu ; e compelled tp follow the instructions of their earthly head .
Do they , in a prayer appointed for the purpose , pray for the Divine assistauce , or do they not 5 and do they , ^ . fter they hav e obeyed the Monarch ' s command , thank uod for having directed them in the choice of sq
worthy a , person I I suppose it must be in this that I am erroneous in every particular , but I will correct myself i £ in this fact I have trusted to a false authority * * I solicit his reply . I . WOftSLEY .
* I have said , not daring , at the peril of losing their preferment , to choose any other . " [ t seeius . that it should be u Uie peril of the penalties of a preinunire . "
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clea ^ r , p ^ sapiiipa | ^ id el ^ r ^ tH ? g mw § of tlie chaxa ^ c te r and attribut es o | G ^ od , which vie novy sprefrdiqg through the world , in despite of a thousand a ^ icoinpanying errors both of « t ? et ^ pliysi < qs l ^ nd phraseology , can be tr ^ ceji , I be-Ikve , by no fair mind , to any ot ^ r source , than the doctrines of the New
Testament . It is true , their progress has beep very much assisted by tfee speculation ^ of John LocHe , but bi ^ ^ chiey ^ ments consisted rather in shewing the correspondence existing
bejtvyieen the religion / of nature j ^ ncj tjb ^ t of J ; he Npw Testament , and in e ^ hi-S iting limitations a ^ 4 facilities for the right ( Jeyelopenrjeijt of truth , than in the discovery pf diyi | ie truth itself . ^ is pos
Qhiiuary . Th ^§? iM > tice § m % T sess up JBjbtle werit , ^ iqc « they iiiterept a strsmger at the distance pf three or four thousand miles . InteUigenc * . TJie lifempk ftf Werner furnishes some apt illustrations of | he Essay qj * t | te Goi ^ e ^ Iop ^ et \ veen Poetry and IleUgipft m this v ^ ry nwqato
|> eir . — . Xh ^ e allusion afterwards Ao * € b rican Jp ^ s causie ^ pae to pbserv ^ , tjb ^ t persons of that denomination are found in some of the qabst respo » 3 ible civil situations under pur National and State Governments 5 they are al $ p
officers in $ he navy and army , editors , of some of our most popula , r newspapers , $ nd teachers of < exc ^ llfnt schools ^ to vyhich Christians send their children with as little repugnance as to those of ^ heir own creed .
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554 Mr . fPorsley < w his Lecture * m QtQmQttfvrmiftf .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1824, page 554, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2528/page/42/
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