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    these thoughts to the consideration of our Unitarian brethren , not doubting , that the more we manifest our zeal for pur Saviour , the more easily shall we correct the misapprehensions of

    those of our brethren , who , in exalting him to be God , diminish in fact our relationship to hi in , and deprive him of the honour to which he is justly entitled * W . FREND-

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    laid aside from public sen ice whether by this or whatsoever other means . It would give n ^ e pleasure to learn that God was pleased to bless you with more established health , either from yourself or Mr . Fawcett , to whom please to present the cordial respects of , Dear Sir , Your obedient , humble servant ,

    S . READER . P . S . The following and other letters mentioned above , kept Mr . Brown and the best of our Dissenters from qualifying . Northampton , Nov . 5 , 1750 . My dear Friend and Brother ,

    Two things have concurred to , prevent my returning an earlier answer to your important letter ; the one , that it was SQxinaportant as to require some maturity of deliberation ; the other , that a pain in iny right arm , which confine ^ me to my chamber ,

    when I received at , made it that time very difficult for me to write . * * * Yet lest I should seem to shelter my indolence under the veil of modesty , which is no uncommon case ; I will give you a few lines as to rny own view of the matter , which I have

    canvassed the more carefully out of regard to the excellent character pf that worthy person , at whose desire you consulted me ; and because good Mr . Blake , from whom I have received a letter on the occasion , teHs me the question affects many places , and that Mr , Brown ' s determination either

    way , will have a considerable influence on many more . I presume not absolutely to determine the question , which I am the more unwilling to do , when I consider how widely several most excellent men have been divided in their opinion about it . Colonel Gardiner made no

    scruple at all of taking the test . Those very great men , Mr . Howe and Dr . Bates , I think very unhappily for the Dissenting interest , strongly urged Sir Thomas Abney to do it . Captain Ekins threw up his commission , when

    he earnestly desired from the most Christian motives to keep it ; and when I pleaded , as I then did , for ms submitting to it , he answered , " * know too well what the weight of guilt h , to venture on any considers

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    362 Original Letter from Dr . Doddridge te Rep * Job Orton 9 on

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    Birmingham , Sir , June 6 , 1825 . 1 INCLOSE you a copy of a letter of Dr . Doddridge , which came to me among other papers of his candid

    and consistent biographer the Rev . Job Orton . It may be acceptable to your readers to see in what light the writer viewed the compliance with the test required by the unholy alliance of Church and State . A recent instance

    of a gentleman , not of the sect by law established , qualifying for a secular purpose , which has occasioned much notice in this neighbourhood , induces me to send it to you , and as it

    appears , ' by the accompanying remarks , to have been attended with good effect at the time , it may have a similar beneficial effect in inducing others to ponder well before they take a similar step . TABELLIO .

    fFareham , Dorset , Oct . 8 , 1768 . Deah Sir , I am sorry to have so long delayed sending you a copy of the following letter of Dr . Doddridge ' s as desired by Mr . Fawcett , which was owing to its being among many other papers where

    I did not expect to find it , after I had spent much time in looking over others where I expected it . If you wished for this copy for the sake of the subject of it , I have also by me letters on the same occasion from Messrs * Barker and Pearson , which are at your service : but if you have

    any thoughts of publishing any of the Dr : ' s letters , or choose it on any pther account because it was his , you here have it with the omission of two or three lines which were too complaisant on what I had wrote . I thank you , dear Sir , for the important service you have done by publishing so much , lamenting' that you should be

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1825, page 352, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2537/page/28/