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    fairly be subject to imputations of selfdelusion and deception , very similar to those to which Dr . Stock has so unhappily exposed himself . The belief of each being necessarily founded , if it has any foundation at all , upon

    well -attested experience and matters of fact , mere reasoning and speculation will of course have no weight in their respective cases . Had Dr . Carpenter , not limiting Omnipotence , simply stated it as possible for the Supreme

    Being to aid his children in the ways which he supposes , none but nice speculators would have refused their assent to the proposition ; but the bare possibility of such an interposition nvw which has been withheld for almost two

    thousand \ enrs , seems to me a verv insufficient reason for thinking it probable , or for expecting it either without or in consequence of supplications . I am fully aware of the cautious manner in which Dr . Carpenter has stated his belief : he savs that " the

    Divine aid is afforded in ways which philosophy cannot yet explain . ' But does this change the nature of the question ? Were Dr . Carpenter able to establish such agency by facts

    however difficult it might be to explain thena , true philosophy would admit the facts , and submit to the difficulty , as it must do with respect to many other obscure and complicated natural phenomena .

    I take this opportunity most cordially to congratulate the Unitarian congregation at Bristol on their being favoured with so excellent a successor to my dear old friend Dr . Estlin . The interests of pure religion and virtue will , I am confident , be much promoted

    by the extraordinary abilities and amiable disposition of Dr . Carpenter . Sincerely do I lament that he is at present deprived of the co-operation of so wise and so good a man as Dr .

    Stock ; however , I do not despair of his recovery : he will now , I trust , uninfluenced by the suggestions of bigots and enthusiasts , devote himself to cool , candid and patient investigation , which is all that is necessary . JL . J . J .

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    since , and having perused the article , which is called , the Case of the Old Dissenting Meeting-house , Wolveranipton , ( p . 494 , ) I am sorry to find that many things contained in it are not correct . The writer has given such a statement of the circumstances , as he

    conceived would be prejudicial to my character . My object in this paper is to vindicate myself from his aspersions . I shall not controvert any of those things which are stated as having transpired prior to the time of my connexion with the congregation .

    My coming to settle at Wolverhampton , I believe , was not disagreeable to any of the members of the society , excepting one trustee , and a part of his family ; on whose account , solely , the term for which I was invited was

    limited to three years . At the expiration of which period , I received a letter from the same trustee , in which he said , that my further continuance would not be approved by him , and that the attendance of himself and

    family would be very unlikely . This letter I shewed to the principal persons of the congregation , who were extremely hurt at my having received such a communication . They assured me it was their wish that I should

    continue , and requested me to call a meeting of the congregation , that they might renew their invitation to me , some of them declaring at the same time , that the conduct of that gentleman and his family had been so unkind and unchristian , that they should not regret their loss , should

    they be determined to withdraw from John ' s * Lane Cjiapel . And this gentleman himself has said , in a letter which he published January 3 d , 1817 , " I am free to confess , the majority would have been in his favour , if aa invitation had been given him as late as July . " It was the doubts which I

    then entertained of the truth of some points in the Unitarian doctrine , that prevented my calling a meeting as requested . I also desired a friend , ( the Rev . Mr . Scott , ) before the 1 st of September , alluded to in the Case , to

    inform the same gentleman , that it was my intention to leave as soon as possible ; arid I requested one of the trustees to inform the meeting of that day , that I had made up my mind not to continue with them - I y nor did hiot

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    € 66 Mr . Steward ' s Vindication

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    ¦ ^ — Mr . Steward ' s Vindication . Sir , Wolverliampton , Oct . 25 , 1817 . OBTAINED a sight of the I Monthly Repository , a few days

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1817, page 666, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2470/page/26/