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    676 Corresponde?ice.— On Mr.Bcnnetfs Ser...

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    Jn fhe last No. p. cox P. 607. col. 1. 1...

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    Mil. 3. Marten's Reply To Mr. Sturcii, O...

    to differ from them in opinion , while they arc the first to be offended at the la _~ h © f others . He begins his observations with contending for that which I have never disputed , viz . the right of an Editor ' s _inserting nothing anonymous which relates to matters of fact ; but how long and how generally this has been the custom in the _Repository , your correspondent has not informed me . I should hope , Sir , for your credit a _.- > an Editor , : hat mine is not Mr . S . has thought proper to ason Mr . Bennett , which _declaiation nion which I have expressed towards that gentleman , who I am _persuaded cannot by this correspondent ' s _mischievous insinuations be made to think that ! entertain against him any motives of personal animosity . 1 have , Sir , only given it as my opinion that Mr . B . was incorrect when he said that he obtained a patient hearing of his sermon , while Mr . S . most dogmatically _averts the contrary . Mr . S . appeals for the truth of his _assertion to the expressions of some of his friends , who ert that my ill becomes a solitary case was to fix a stfgma k and friendly _opiper-uaded cannot design in him after writing th' 2 fran

    I suppose Like _himself were present merely during the time of public service , and at the dinner table afterwards : while I equally appeal to a number of my friends who were present during the whole business of the day , and whose disapprobation Mr . Bennett himself was both an eye and an ear wime s to , nor would it be a difficult task to prove , that during the delivery of the sermon there we ' re _visible marks in the congregation both of impatience , interruption and disgust .

    If Mr . Bennett is an injured man , to what cause is it to be attributed ? Certainly not to me nor the Assembly , but to him > elf and those of his friends who have rashly advised him to add one improper act to another : nor has Mr . Sturch ' s delicacy towards his friend Mr . Bennett appeared very conspicuous in agitating a subject , which perhaps would have been much better laid at rest . When I wrote my former letter , I was not aware that amongst your numerous readers , there could have existed a _disposition so captious as to have taken an advantage of my words , while the meaning was sufficiently obvious . Was £ t possible

    for any one but Mr . S . to have understood me to mean ( notwithstanding some incorrectness of expression ) that each of the passages which I quoted , was repeated thirty or forty times , and not that such like _passages occurred so often in the discourse ? And if I had substituted the word introduction for that of repetition , I might have escaped the talons of this angry critic . Indeed , Sir , were I in my turn to recriminate , I mi _^ ht charge Mr . S . with asserting that Mr . Bennett ' s own passages in his sermon were rrore unexceptionable" than those which he borrowed from

    scriptu e , but this would betray a _spirit which every friend to truth ought to deprecate . I am as anxious as any man for the spread of pure and unadulterated Christianity , and the true worship of the one supreme God , but I hope my zeal in the good cause will never betray me into er _^ ors _^ and especially into that great absurdity of defending the measures of any advocate , right or wrong , merely because 1 believe him to be a good man , and much more so , when his conduct tend * to stigmatize a large body of his equally well _meaning brethren .

    And as I have never , either directly or _indi guagL with indecency , so I trunk _thelevity tcr is ill timed ; it may indeed suit the feelings of a sneering , or gratify the spleen of an angry critic , but it _deserves by me only to be treated "with silent contempt . I remain , Sir , your ' s & c . Barston _. Dcc . io , 1807 , B . MARTEN . ectly , charged one word of scripture Ian of Mr . Sturch in the latter part of his let

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    676 Corresponde ? _ice . — On Mr . _Bcnnetfs Sermon .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1807, page 676, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121807/page/56/