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    Establishment , maintained the minister ' s superiority to the people , as really , though not so vexatiously , as did Laud or Sheldon . That such Presbyters , when demurring to Episcopal ordination , should

    have contrived to guard their own assumption , from the encroachments of Christian equality , by an ordination , alike fitted to distinguish the minister from the people * was naturally to be

    expected \ nor is it surprising that a people , of whom , probably , a very large majority could not read the Bible for themselves , should have readily admitted such a distinction . You have recorded ( XVI , 134 , col .

    1 ) as the opinion of < Mr . John Fox , " that " Mr . Hallet had high notions of the ministerial power . ' I had occasion to shew , ( p . 222 , ) in a note on that passage , how Mr . James Peirce also had maintained , as late as 1716 ,

    as if he were living in the apostolic age of miracles , that " Presbyters are to judge of men ' s qualifications for the sacred office , " because ' * we read of the laying on of the hands of the Presbytery , but never of the laying on of the hands of the people , " and because we cannot " find the least

    intimation , that the apostles acted in the people's name , when they ordained ministers . " I am quite aware that my respected friends , who sanctioned by their concurrence the late ordination , are as ready as any one to smile at the recollection of those absurd

    pretensions which render ridiculous , for a moment , even such names as Hallet and Peirce ; though , such pretensions once assumed and admitted , nothing can be more consistent than ordination . Vet it must always have been ill-contrired that the young aspirant to the rank of an ordained minister should

    have been obliged to listen to the counsel of Christian experience , called mtharge , while standing up , a spectacle to a large congregation , instead of receiving such counsel in the less embarrassing form of a private interview , or a friendly correspondence . Nor

    was it very decorous that a congregation , to whom the sermon was especially addressed , should be lectured before their neighbours , on the conduct it became-them to observe to-^ Hrd R the y ouog minister whom they Jaad chosefc * k- - *¦ ¦ - n

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    I trust , hdtfeveiv thai the tote attempt ifd revive the semblance 6 $ , < &-dinaiion among Unitarians , ;' * $ & W m * last ; from a growing codvt ^ io | S tli ^ t such forms , wit , h whatever gt&flfit * iti&& qualifications they may feteriW&tN ^ & ~ nied , are calculated to encourage what those who assisted on that occs » it > n

    would , on the discovery of such a tendency , be among the first to disapprove . We wutit > indeed , if we would maintain Christian equality , nothing to * enhance the distinction Between minister and people , but rather every thing which can be fairly applied to *

    contrary purpose . The other question to which I referred is that respecting " - " the ' project of the Lancashire Caivinists for depriving Unitarians of their places of worship . ' These assumed children of light , as if they had been in consultation with the children of this world , and thus had become wiser in their

    generation , have been contriving , it seems , to save the expense of building chapels , by entering upon and possessing those of the Unitarians . In reading my friend Mr . Hunter ' s very satisfactory statement of this question , I was reminded ( p . 261 ) of some letters

    from Mr . Jollie to Mr . Heywood , in the British Museum . They form part of a large " Collection of original letters of bishops , divines , and learned men , formerl y belonging to Ralph Thoresby , and ( bought at the sale of his Museum by Dr . BirCh .

    A copy which I took of one of the letters is at your service . It appears from one of your early volumes , ( VI . 9 , ) that Mr . Jollie " succeeded Mr . Frankland , who died in 1698 , as Tutor in the Academy at Attercliffe . " J . T . RUTT .

    Nov . 29 thy 1700 . Ever-honoured and dear Sir , You wil excuse me if I say the truth , the souUrefreshmcnt I had under your roof , in my last return from Lancashire , gave me the livelyest adumbration of the society above , yt

    ever I found in private conversation any where ; but I must forbear , les . t I trespass : my very heart rejoicstfy to hear of you , or see your lines , yet , I would not think of y . oy above what } s meet ; if I can pr&y , ydu stare largely in that kind of r ^ mein brnn ^ e ^ tha ^ yau may yet ace more of God ^ salvation ,

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    An Original hotter af Mr . Jvttie * * td Mr , Heywood . 349

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1825, page 349, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2537/page/27/