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    34 The Clergyman's Examination of Rev. F...

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    To the Editor of the Monthly Repository ...

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

    Having stated these conversations as accurately as I am able , after the lapse of more than twenty years , I leave it to your consideration whether they do not invalidate the statement of the Rev . T . Priestley in the paragraph to which you refer . _Though unconnected with the former part of my letter , I will mention an anecdote which I had from my friend Mr . Norman , of Stow-market . Mr . Tailor , while the dissenting minister of that place ,

    introduced Dr . Priestley to Needham Market * Mr . N . often heard Mr . T . predict the future eminence of his friend , not merely from his great application , but from the most undeviating adherence to plan in every thing he did . So exact was he in the division of his time that he accustomed himself to study with a watch on the table and

    however interesting the subject engaged in might be , he never suffered on _« branch of literature to encroach upon the period allotted for another . I remain dear Sir your _' s , Sandon _^ Jan . 6 , 1805 , ELIAS FORDHAM .

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    34 The Clergyman ' s Examination of Rev . F . _Stojie _^ s « Case '

    To The Editor Of The Monthly Repository ...

    To the Editor of the Monthly Repository Sir , Mr . Stone ' s statement of his case in your October number , ( p . 528 , ) is so very extraordinary a one , that I cannot suffer it to pass unnoticed . He is evidently conscious , that the charge of dishonesty might be brought against him for retaining his benefice , and yet publicly teaching the doctrines usually termed Unitarian . This charge he obviates by asserting _, that

    THE CLERGYMAN S _EXAMINATIOIST OF THE REV . F _" STATEMENT OF HIS CASE . " STONE 4

    he is , " bound only by two solemn , unconditional , scriptural ¦ engagements made with his ordaining bishop in the form and manner of the ordering of priests ; and that these , being entered into posterior to the subscription to the articles , release him from all obligation to regard them in this important point , ' viz * the divinity of Christ .

    Now , Sir , let me ask , would any honest" Socinian dissenter -be satisfied with this quibble , even if it were founded upon truth ? Would an entering into these two scriptural engagements annul a solemn previous subscription to the articles , without an avowed declaration on the part of the candidate for orders _^ that such was his belief ? Can a truly honest man pretend to say , that a fresh subscription wholly invalidates a prior one ; when he must have known , that to ascribe such a notion to the

    founders of oyr reformed church would be ascribing to then * downright folly ? Does Mr . Stone really suppose , that eitheT the Church of _Englajid _, or his ordaining bishop , meant to re *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1807, page 634, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121807/page/14/