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    INTELLIGENCE.

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    Dr . D . was not one df those Scholars who have had so much reason to complain that they devoted themselves to ** unendowed Philosophy * nor can he be classed atmon . ; the divines who were left ¦ to u starve ug > on a dog-ear'd Pentateu h . ' * After enjoying . everal inferior preferment j in 1787 , he was advanced to the Bi hopric of Car-li ] e on the death of Dr . JLaw . In 1788 , he became Dean of Windsor , and in 1791 \ va translated v to the see of Sali bury , to vvhi . h the office of Chancellor of the Order of the Garter has by custom been constantly annexed . He had been early connected

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    y PLIGIOUS TJNITARIAMISM IN AMERICA . A Letter received the 23 i of April from the worthy Mr . Vanderkemp , dared 17 th Feb . 1807 , enables us to add some particulars concerning the state of Vnitarianism in that" country , to the information which we communicated in our Repository for last December , p 668 .

    Previou Jy to the Unitarian Christians at Oldenbarneveld having organized themselves into a Church , JVJr . Vanderkemp gave them lectures from time to time , and on Sundays were read to them the eermons and publications of Clarke , XJndsey , Priest ey , Price and Tojulmin . Mr Sherman , thei Mini tc ? r , is a young

    nlan of great espectabilty , uncommon talents , and amiable manners . His principal wart yet , is bov . ks and learned qualiilcation-. ; but supplied in the former from the library of Mr . Vunderkemp , he premises to make so < n a great pro / jviency in the latter . Mr . Variderkemp s daughter yvve thv * first exanip e of professing lublic y , by "baptism , the religion of jesus . Mr . Shern » . n / s performance

    en that o cas ;>* n Wits masterly On the jiexi bin : day he prmchfd : » t another settlement , -iti s { posed in . Holland ^ , Patent , ) five re pe- : able per ons , men and wemen , iTiiu : e a prohs-r n of « heir belic-f in One God aid Jc us the- Chri t and wtrc haptised An e ci ^ rl ) IVj ^ i ^ istrate made lit the ianie time proles- on of * Out <> i them a rnagi . striuej , a man resLcctab ^ c ill iiian y viewb .

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    with the literary charatcters of his time ,, amon ^ w hom Gold-mith lia mentioned him in his humorous * Retaliation . ** Dr . D . ' s acquaintance was not confined to his own eccles rstical communion as he shared considerable intimacy 'tvith thtf

    doctors , Price and Kippi - His att c } n ment to literature i described as so predorhinant , that t 4 he was neVer seen by any of hi « family , when , not in com * pany with strangerr , without having a book or a pen in his hand . He retained his faculties to the last » and di « d in the

    arms of hU son , without a struggle or a pang . *

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    hh belief in the gospel ; but declared he considered baptism as circumscribed to the Apostolic ag : e , which wasno obstae ' e to hii acceptance . He then * made a pathetic harangue to the assemblv to profess Jesus and not to follow his example in delaying it so long . In the next week Mr . ^ ner * man , preaching at Oldcnbarneveld , four more of the' most respectable uha . acters joined the Church . il You

    see , ' says Mr . Vanderkemp , " our labour is not in vain , and notwithstanding the stupid big otry and intolerant spirit of many of the American Clergy , the

    kin g dom-of our Lord and its unadulterare doctrine s all prevail more and more Mr Mappa , a gentleman of fortune and influence , leads the van of iational religious worship . The first Deacon has deserted the cause and endeavoured to

    injure it , but in vain . A worthy Calyinistic Clergyman attacked the art ces of the Church creed , which Mr . Vanderkemp defended so successfully , thdt the Clergyman candidly yielded the argument to him . Another exposed them wi h bitter violence , whom , a ^ of

    another stamp , A / Ir Vanderkemp ,, with severity , lashed into-siJcn ^ -e . IVTr . Sherman pub ished in 1805 a TreatLe on the Uniry of God ; ? which a Clergyman of Connecticut attacked ; to whem Mr . Vanderkemp replied ,, in a Tract entitled 44 A Wreath for the Rev . Darnel Dow ;" to which there has been i \ o answer . Besides the Church , there is formed , at Qldci . burncveld , a Society for promoting

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    332 Intelligence .

    Intelligence.

    INTELLIGENCE .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1807, page 332, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2381/page/44/