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    when the Rev . Dr . Gray , the successor to the liberal and enlightened Paley hi the Rectory of Bishop-Wearmou . th , appeared as a coadjutor to Messrs . Ettrick and Stephenson . Many hard words were uttered on Sociiiiaiiism

    and other pernicious doctrines , political as well as religious , while the abettors of the tablet urged that they had nothing to do with either his politics or his religion , but with their obligations to him as members of that institution . In this discussion it was remarkable that the Rev . P . Wilcock , a Roman Catholic priest , distinguished

    himself on the liberal side . After a long and stormy debate , the votes were for maintaining the tablet 73 , against it 43 , on which Dr . Cray proposed , that the word as should be

    prefixed to the line , " one of the founders of this library , " to mark more distinctly the ground on which it was erected , which was immediately agreed to by Mr . Meadley ' s friends .

    Mr . Stephenson has since published his speech ; and , subsequently , three Sermons which he has preached iu Bishop-Wearmouth Church , on the Atonement , the Divinity of Christ , and the Deity and Personality of the Holy

    Spirit . And Dr . Gray , notwithstanding that the alteration proposed by himself vpas adopted , has since hung up in the Library-room the following protest :

    Copy of Dr . Grai ns Protest against ]\ £ . Me a diet / ' s Tq , blet . ii To Dr . P ember ton , c < My dear Sir , cc I shall be obliged to you , after having * perused the accompanying * letter , if you will take the proper measures for its being * placed in the Library , and allowed to remain there one month .

    I remain , my dear Sir , * Yours , very tmlv , " ROBERT GRAY . " Rectory , Feb . 8 , 1819 . u To the President and Members of the Sun der lan d Subscrip I ion Library . U GENTrKMEW ,

    u At the anniversary meeting " , on the 2 d of February , I so U \ r assented to the proposed alteration in the inscription on t }\(> tablet , ( whic ) i in my opinion rendered i \ less objectionable , ) as to say , that if it should be adopted , jl would m * t print the protest which I intended to do , witji t } ie extracts which I read at the iri £ ctin ; gr , and the names of those gentlemen who miifht

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    incline to sign it . It did not occur to me , in the confusion which prevailed , that such assent might hereafter be construed to imply ray acquiescence in the decision of the meeting , by those who might not connect it with the declaration which I had made , ' That I should support Mr . Ettrick ' s motion for removing the tablet , ' and with the vote which 1 had actually given for it . It has therefore struck me , with painful and irresistible conviction , to be necessary to say , that I did not by any means intend to countenance this public tribute to the memory of the deceased : and

    with a view to exempt myself from any feeling or imputation of this nature , I must add , that I cannot any longer continue ta be a member of a society , in which an eulogiuin , still open to great objections , however qualified , is holden up to public view , and stated to be so 6 by the resolution of a general meeting of the

    subscribers , ' to one , who has published opinions , which I do not wish to repeat , but which are in direct opposition to what our Saviour has plainly taught us ; since , with respect to his essential Deity and preexistence , he says , iC c I and my Father are one . " * " * I ana in the Father , and the Father

    " me ' . He that hath seen me hath seen the Father . ' " As the Father knoweth me , even so know T the Father . ' " * Before Abraham was , I ana . * " Arid , a little before his crucifixion , in a prayer to God , he says , 4

    " And now , O Father , glorify me with thine own self , with the glory which I had with thee before the-world was , ' &c . &c " . With respect to the Atonement , the angel of the Lord declares of the Virgin ,

    " * She shall bring * forth a Son , and thou slialt call his name Jesus , for he shaH save his people from their sins . ' " And the Evangelist adds , that iC c They shall call his name IinmanueJ , which is , being- interpreted- , God with us . ' " Jesus himself savs , . . . . m / /

    u * I sun the living- bread which came down from heaven ; if any man eat of this bread , he shall live for ever , and the bread which I will o-ive is my fleshy which I will give for the life of the world . ' " And the Baptist said , when lie saw Jesus coming- mUo him , " ' Rriioid the U \ . xn h of Gofl , which taketh away the sin of the world . '

    "And it appears from all Scripture , that Christ is " ' The Lajnb slajnj from the foundation of i \\ e world . " With regard tatfie dfctfn&t personality ° f ^? *? ° ty S p'Utj , Christ Vhys co , niHian < l » his , disciples ,

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    282 Proceedings at Sunderland relating to Mr . Meadley ' s Monument *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1819, page 282, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1772/page/2/