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    The writer of the "Three Additional Letters" represents the inefficacy of the several attempts of Horsley , Magee , &c * &c « , to destroy the credit of Dr . Priestley and Mr . Befeham : and here he takes occasion further to vindicate the memory of the Historian of the Corruptions of Christianity and the character of the Editor of the

    Improved Version . * Having shewn most satisfactorily that this Version was not intended , and is not calculated , to mislead , Mr , Wellbeloved passes on to " a new count" in the dignitary's " indictment of Unitarian impostors taken e * ts

    6 v \ avco <; y from the green or purple bag of tie Archbishop of Dublin : " it regards " the unprincipled and treacherous publication , entitled * Dr ., Watts's Divide-and Moral Songs for Children , revised and altered , so as to render

    them of general Use ; to which are added , a Short Catechism and Prayers , By Mrs . Trimmer / " This little volume the Archdeacon of Cleveland ascribes to Unitarians . The accusation had been previously refuted : f th € point of fact ought to have been considered as already set to rest ; but it was essential for the author of the

    ** Three Additional Letters" not to disregard the charge , when so wantonly repeated : " If a toook with sadh a title do exist , or ever hare existed , it is the height of injustice to make the Umtariafts at large answerable for its unpardonable dis

    ingenuousness . As a body they know nothing of it . You , Sir , I am persuaded , have never seen this book , and have no further acquaintance with it , than what you have derived from the * Discourses , * &c , of Magee ; or I tvould call upon you to specify the date of its publication , and the name of its printer . ' *—P . 30 .

    ^ This is a fair and manly and deci * sive answer . Archdeacon Wrangham would , no doubt , have specified these circumstances , had he met with the book in question . Will he still plead that he * ' no where professes originality" ? Will he still complain that

    * In this pan of Mr . Wellbeloved ' s second tract , pp . 20 ) 21 , note , appears the passage extracted in the Mot * . Ropos . XIX . 392 . t By Dr . Carpenter . Bee Examination , &e ., pp . 50—54 .

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    the counts of his indictment are denomiaated calumnious ? His next censure falls upon die revered and guileless confessor Lindsey . It is of great importance that the dignitary ' s own words be cited :

    " Nor will I leavfe , " he declares , ** wholly unnoticed the trick played off under the mask of Dn S . Clarke . Dr . C *' s interleaved Book of Common Prayer , deposited by his son in the British Museum in 1768 , is represented to retain , both in the doxolegy and in the

    commencement of the Litany , the names Of the Three Divine Persons , ( and , in the latter , the three-fold invocation , ) as well as the service for Trinity Sunday ; with a doxology appended to the Thanksgiving from the Apocalypse , implying a ifiore solemn worship of Christ than that which

    is at present in use . And yet the Unitarian Prayer-Book , which , however , I have never seen , is said to be entitled by its successive editors , Lindsey and Belsharn , * The Book of Common Prayer , reformed according to the plan of the laPe Dr . Samuel Clarke . "— -Pp . 31 , 32 .

    Is represented to retain !—which I have neve ? seen !—is said to be entitled !—We doubt whether the pages of theological controversy exhibit any thing more disgraceful to the most careless or most rancorous of their authors . Let our readers , and let the Archdeacon of Cleveland attend te

    Mr . Wellbeloved ' s judgment of it : " And so this very serious charge of practising deceit in the important and momentous concern of framing a work to be used in the worship of that omniscient Being , who delighteth in sincerity , is

    brought on the ground of hearsay and conjecture alone , against a man whose life was a pattern of Christian simplicity , who in all his transactions was scrupulously sincere and upright , and who for the sake of truth afrd confidence sacrificed the

    reasonable expectation of palaces and purple and preferment J " — lt * . 32 . The author of the " Three Additional Letters" has " never seen Dr . Clarke ' s interleaved copy of the

    Common Prayer . " But from unquestionable vouchers ^ to which we shall give References at the foot of the page , he demonstrates the correctness of the title of the Liturgy used in the cWpel i& Essex Street . *

    * Lindsey ' a Apology , &c , lTO , &c , 4 th ed ., Conversations tin Christian Idolatry , 136 , Hist . View , &c , 235 .

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    Review ^^ W ^ llkeimeff * Letters to Arckiteucon Wrmjgk&to . 163

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1825, page 163, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2534/page/35/