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[ The following letter from « Annon&itjb' wa 8 occasioned by our having extracted a former epistle , by the same writer , from the ' Autobiography of a Disnenting Minister . Our readers must judge far themselves of its authenticity . We give it precisely as it came to hand . 1
TO THE HEAJ > ITOK OF THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY . Scale Street , Feb . lOnd . Sir—I trust to your grate imparshiality and love of all meetineers , for the insursion of the present letter in your valuable composition .
In the last but one Monthly Repository , a book I return thanks to God whom I never saw before , and will never again set eyes on , for its introduekshion of the heathen writings of Plato and such foreign herriticks , I there saw an account of a book called Autobography of a Dissenting Minister , in whom was printed an anonnimus letter written by me some yeers a go .
Being myself of a mild and unobtusive disposition and wellregulated mind and sole , which was the cause of my writin g it to that erring , sinful , not enough God-fearing divine , I was in course greatly overcome with rage and unpleasantness at findin g it had been printed without my permission , and in sich a radical composition as your Monthly .
It seams , sir , from the tenner of the remarks put upon my letter , both from the pen of the reverend gentleman and author of a book , and also from your pen , that my endeavours which , under the Lord , proved very serviceable , were not gratefully received , nor treeted with the respect that I considder waz my dew . But the divine perspiration and instinct that were upon my whole frame when I rote it , tels me now , as it told me then , that I was the
ritest of the rite among the flocks of the ryechouse . That letter was not the only one I wished to send , howsomedever it were the only one I did send . For I had ment to lecture him with a noley pen upon the subject of his too good living in the flesh , and his too great corpolency ; since he was the fattestest minister of the gospul I ivver saw . I sat under him live yeers ; so I ought to know .
The child of sin , his son , that wicked herry tic , whose play ings at marvels I put an hefishent stop to in a manner quite miraculouse , as also his playings at hop-scotch and dumps , besides eating shugar-stick and bull ' s-eye-balls on the sabbath day with a face $ ud pinnerfore which were dirty and gormed all
over with alligumpane ; that child of Satun , I say , repented himself and was saved intirely throo my interfearance . Sing his praises O ! my sole ! I should not forget to inform you that many yeers aterwards , he came to thank me for it with teers in his ii * s , and down plump upon his knees . So I picked him up forgiveftomely , and after we had read a few chapters out of the bibel
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EPISTLE FROM A SECTARIAN SAINT .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1835, page 103, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2642/page/23/
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