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      A Sketch Of The State Of Christianity In...

      communicated him , to give him absolution in the presence of the people ; after which both quietly returned to their graves ! Highly corrupt , absurd , and superstitious , as the religion of Austin certainly was , yet it is supposed to have been not a little preferable to that which it superseded j but if Britain had

      never known a better Christianity than that introduced by him , it would have had little reason to be proud of its reli gion . After all , the saintship of Austin the monk _5 or Austin of Rome , Seems no way inferior to that of his namesake , Austin of Hippo . In what year this first archbishop of Canterbury and

      apostle of ' _England died , or at what age , is involved in no small uncertainty . Some place his death in _604-j or 605 ; others in COS ; and others again in 613 , or 614 . From his time to that of Wiekliffe , popish superstition had its full swing in this island , and reigned here without opposition or restraint W . . R .

      632 Anecdotes Of Dr\ Priestley*

      632 Anecdotes of Dr \ Priestley _*

      Miscellaneous Communications

      MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS

      Anecdotes Of Dr. Priestley; In A Letter ...

      ANECDOTES OF DR . PRIESTLEY ; IN A LETTER TO MR . RUTT To the Editor of the Monthly Repository

      Sir , The enclosed letter , has been , as you will perceive _^ for some time in my possession . I should sooner have offered it to yourservice

      had I not felt a very allowable reluctance to draw from its _deserved oblivion * The Rev . T . Priestley's Funeral Sermon on Dr . Priestlev _/* which occasioned mv friend ' s communication . It will be recollected that the author of that sermon ventured to

      represent the tutor in divinity , colleague of his brother at Warrington , ( who must have been the late pious and exemplary Dr . Aikin , ) as bursting " into a flood of tears , leaning his head on his , ( the fiev _. T . P / s ) ri g ht knee , and expressing fears that he should never die like a Christian , because he could not believe Christ _tp be God / 5 ( Pp . 43 , 44 . ) After reading such a story and the very satisfactory confutation of it by Dr . Aikin's family , which appeared immediately after the publication of _ths

      sermon , the reverend author must permit me to say that I should liave thought it scarcely necessary to . contradict any other strange assertion which his apparently treacherous memory might tempt him to hazard . Yet as my friend ' s letter , of which he has given me the freest use , contains passages respecting Dr . Priestley which can never be uninteresting to that large portion of your readers who revere his memory , I am induced _cvety _3 iqw to send it to your Miscellany .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1807, page 632, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121807/page/12/