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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS.
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158 Account of c * fotitittr HothwellJ * i * e E £ ofcist <
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a mwi who gave up such flattering wbrldly ptospeets as Mr . Palmer did fat tbe sake 6 f the Gospel , arid laboured zealously ten years in Scotland without a salary * fee , or rewarcl > in preaching and propagating the Unitarian doctrine , shoufd be condemned to a seven
years * exile ra a distant ^ desolate and iULinbabited country , among the refuse * of the human species , and after- experiencing and surviving so many hardships should perish on his return to his native land , a 5 > rteoner in a remote Spanish settlement . But if we take a
retrospect of the moral govern xnent of God , and the dispensations of divine Providence in diflereivt ages , we shall find that similar afflictive trials have been often the lot of the righteous . The worthies , recorded in Heb . xL •* of iviiom the world was not
wort&y , " ' vfrere' subjected to cruel sufferings , they wandered about in sheep-skins , and goat-skins > being
destitute , afflicted , tormented;—they wandered in deserts , and in mountains , and in dens and caves of the earth /* John the baptist for his honest detestation and cen * * u re of vice , fell a victim to the
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Account of " Masttr Rotkwtll , " the Exorcist * Letter IT . Sir , March 6 * & , 1 * 11 In my former letter , p . 75 , 1 sent
you some particulars respecting one otihcDramatiiPersonce in tixepiece annexed . As to the other character f ithc ? accounts are so vari - ous , From Milton ' s Satan , not less 4 Han Archangel ruined , down to 1 ^ at princ iple of moral evil , iiito which many latir Christians haCVe Resolved him , that I should despair # 3 fsatwfyiBg . all your reader Let . i' - "
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malice ami revenge of a lewd iro ^ raan . John the Apo&tle was ba * nished by the tyrant Domititm to th ^ isle 6 f Patto os : Peter % m \ d to have been crs ^ ified nhdjVweA beheaded : affd many othefs have suffered in like manner in differ *
ent ages . But the time is fast approaching when temporal judgments shall be rej utfged : ^ hen the real and disinterested friends of truth and piety , of civil and
migiohs liberty , shall lift up their heads with joy ; and their oppressors ( though at present they may be seated on thrones , of wear ing the robes of justice , if-they have not averted the divine dis *
pleasure by repefttaiice and reformation ) shall say to the motrn . tains and rocks Fttll on Its , and hide lis froin the face df \ hito that sftteth on ittie throne , arid froi » th $ wrath of the Lamb : For the great day of hfc wrath is come ; and who shatttreable to smndF ^ Ret vi . 15 to I ? . N . B . Though this
passage in its mare immediate seme ifciay respect the downfall of Paganism ; yet it h not imptfo . bably supposed * by sbme commehtators , that it may have a typical reference tcr the day df judgment .
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every man he fully per&uadcdh his own mind . la sending you the following papers , I wul just premise that : Mr . Bernard , of Bateomb , So *
merset , mentioned in tbe introduction to the dialogue , was ft presbyterian divine , of some note He is said , by Ludlow , ( 8 vo , u 104 ) to have been an acquaintance
of Archbishop Usher ' s , and " that when the s * ud Mir . B . earnestl y pressed him to deal faithfully ^™ the king in the coiitra ^ ejnsy whK * Was between him and the paili *
Miscellaneous Communications.
MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1811, page 138, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2414/page/10/
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