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    but I can find one only in the strictures of Episcopus ; An inadvertent expression , to judge the most candidly of it , has called for this long vindication ; but if any of us learn hence to © peak with more caution and modesty of characters with which we are

    not intimately acquainted , to respect , in these days of immoderate zeal , the temperate friend of truth and religious freedom ^ and more than this , to imitate the virtues

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    To the Editor of the Monthly Repository :

    sru , Clapton ; May 19 ; 1808 . la his very informing work , entitled ' * A Portraiture of Me . thodism , " Mf . Nightingale has the following remark : " When Mr . John Wesley \* as abeut six years of age , he was aliriost miraculously saved front being destroyed by fire , on which account he used to consider himself in afnbther besides a spiritual sense , a bratid plucked ^ frora the burning" P . I a .

    I ha < e in my possession a print of " John Westey , M .. A . " Fellow of-Lincoln College , Oxford , '' in a clergyman ' s habit , * A / fat . 40 . Sculp . 1 ? 45 / 9 This print was pro&ably never seen by the autlior of the " Portraiture . '' At

    the top are the words , through exjil report tind good report , a . nd at the bottom , is not this a brand plucked Qitt of the Jire ? The last sentence refers to a scroll depending from the oval of the ' print * 6 m whi 6 h is i ^ preserfted a lone house in flames and a child taken

    out of the window , by one . man standing upon the shoulders of

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    of the enlightened and amiable philosopher and moralist , the integrity of whose principles is the subject of this communications

    rriy object in thus addressing yoil will be abundantly answered . ' —^ Sincerely wishing success to the cause of truth , and to the Rei pository , so far as it is , a means of promoting so important an end , I am your ' s , E . HIGGINSON ;

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    i another , as described in Mr # John Wesley ' s letter Quoted in ! the " Portrahure ^ ( p . 16 . ) At the bottom of the scroll is u A iEtat . 6 ° . Having mentioned Mr * Jobnl Wesley , I will , by your leav ^ attempt to account , rather more fully than I have ever seen dorie , for that strong , though inconsistent , attachment to the established

    church , which is so observable in the history of both the bro * thers . Dr < Whitebead their biographer say 3 of their Father , ( i , 20 , ) that in 1705 ,-he " engaged in 4 controversy with the Dissenters . " anfd

    adds that u they hindered him from obtaining a prebend , and worked him oiit of the chaplaincy of a regiment / ' The pious rector of Epworth was thus , prepared to aid the higfa-church cry jfrnich became so loud during the reign of Queen Anne . I had a venerablc , relation . who passed his ^ eariy years in the religious connexion

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    1 1 High Church Principles of tii < e IVesiejfi ^ 373

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    THE WESLETS ; AN ATTEMPT- TO ACCOUNT FOR THEIH HlOtt CHUUCH PKlNtiPLES ; BY MR . RtJTt . WITH A POSTSCRIPT ^ CONTAItflNe FURTHER , PAltTICULAR ^ OF THE REV . ' & : WATSON .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1808, page 373, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2394/page/21/