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vileges , unaccompanied by Vetoism , to tranquillize one-third part of your population ; and to gratify exceedingly another third part , consisting of
Protestant Dissenters , and of many , very many , members of the Established Church- —But may I be permitted to add , that no time is to be lost . The Catholics of Ireland , and
of England also , have for more than a century displayed a moderation , a forbearance , a meek endurance of ill , which would have done credit to any of the primitive martyrs : but it is not reasonable to expect that they will always continue equally patient
and submissive ; nor , perhaps , is it even to be wished that they should do so , for there is a degree of insult and oppression , which not only justifies resistance , but which makes non-resistance a tame , passive , criminal servility , unworthy of freemen , and dangerous in
a free state ; for slaves have ever been , and must always be , dangerous subjects . Whether the wrongs of iujured Ireland have reached this degree , I shall not presume to determine ; but sure 1 am that there is very little of human policy , and still less , of Christian charity , in approaching it so nearly .
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478 Mr . Manning , Mr . J . Wesley , Mr . Emlyn .
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Sir , Aug . 8 , 1817 . HAVE referred to the article of I W . Manning , in Calamy ' s Account a . ndContinuation 9 wherehe is described , in substance , as at p . 377 , except that the Continuation is more exact than the Memorial , mentioning only one work , as your Correspondent has correctlv stated .
Mr . Manning's intimacy with Mr . Emlvn is noticed in the life of the latter by his son . 1746 . ( P . xiii . ) It is on the authority and in the words of the
Life , that the Account , p . 384 , is given of Mr . M / s fruitless attempts to make Mr . E . a Socinian . The biographer has also preserved ( p . xix , ) au extract from one of his Father ' s letters to Mr .
Manning , dated from Ireland , April 1 , 1697 . Now f have mentioned Mr . Emlyn , I will refer to a passage in WhistoiTa Memoirs , 2 nd ed . p . 121 , where he
speaks of " Mr . John Wesley , one among the present Methodists'V [ 1740 ] as having lalelv shewed somewhat of a true Christian temper , in unsaying what he had heard about Mr . EmJyii . " I think I have understood , from a ve-
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nerable friend , once in the Methodist connexion , that Mr . Wesley used , in his circuits , to visit Lowestoff . There , probably , he repeated some idle tale , which he had too hastily credited . Comparing the Life of Emlyn and his Narrative with the Article in the J 5
iographia Brnttanica , I was surprised to find two'interesting passages omitted . One is the countenance given to the prosecution by several Irish Prelates , ' those reverend Fathers , who were
Assessors on the bench , " as Mr . Emlyn refers to them , Nar . p , 37 . Among these the Primate , Dr . Marsh , and the Archbishop of Dublin , the learned Dr . William King , thus disgraced themselves . The former still farther
discovered the tender mercies of State Churchmen , by demanding ** as the Queen ' s Almoner , a shilling in the pound of the whole fine , " of 1000 ^ . "then reduced to 70 / . which was
paid into her Majesty Queen Anne ' s Exchequer . " Mr . E . adds , " I thought his fees must have been reduced proportionably to her Majesty ' s reducement , and that the Church was to be as merciful as . the State ; but I was
mistaken herein- In short , after several applications and letters to him , he would have twenty pounds of me , and so it w as paid him ; who thought it no blemish to his charity or
generosity , to make this advantage of the misery of one , who , for conscience towards God , had endured grief . " Nar . p . 41 . The other passage omitted is given ,
in the Life , p . xxxvii ., from Sir Richard Steele ' s Dedication to the Pope , of his " Account of the State of the Roman Catholic Religion , 1715 . "Having mentioned the trouble " experienced particularly in Ireland by one who could not see exactly what" other Protestants ' * saw about the nature of
Christ before his appearance in this world , " he tells the Pope , . « ' As with you , a man had better blaspheme Almighty God , than not magnify the blessed Virgin , so with many of us it
is much more innocent , and less hazardous to take from the glory of the Father than ofhis . Son . Nay , to bring down the Father to a level with his
own Son is a commendable work , and the applauded labour of many men of leisure ; but to place the , Son below bis own Father in any degree pf real perfection , this is an unpardonable error ;
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1817, page 478, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2467/page/30/
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