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the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, James Peirce (search)
therefore had no suspicion that the book which he held forth as conclusive had already been fully answered. Mr. Peirce, finding that this work was much recommended to English readers, yielded to the solicitations of his friends, and published, in 1717, a translation of his former work, entitled A Vindication of the Dissenters, in answer to Dr. W. Nichols's Defence of the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England: in three parts. The first part contains the history of Non-conformity; thing the prevailing bias of his mind to satire, so that his accounts of his contemporaries, where they tend to their disparagement, must be taken with some few grains of allowance. The first serious indication of an approaching storm occurred in 1717; when a Mr. H. Atkins, a zealot for orthodoxy, preached in Mr. Peirce's absence a vehement sermon, charging some of the dissenters of Exeter with damnable heresies, denying the Lord that bought them. Mr. Peirce, on his return, found that a great
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, John Shute, (search)
ration previously enjoyed, imperfect and unsatisfactory as it was, were obviously violated, remained unrepealed. From this time they remained, it is true, nearly a dead letter; but they were not formally erased from the statute book till the year 1717: after which (in 1720), Mr. B. was raised to the Irish peerage by the titles of Baron Barrington, of Newcastle, and Viscount Barrington, of Ardglass; he received at the same time a reversionary grant of the office of Master of the Rolls in Irelandreign. It is also certain that he exerted himself with vigour and effect whenever any propositions were brought forward affecting either the civil rights of the Dissenters or the cause of religious liberty and free inquiry in general. When (in 1717) the bill was brought in to repeal the Schism and Occasional Conformity Acts of the late reign, it was at first proposed to introduce a clause providing a sort of test in relation to the doctrine of the Holy Trinity; as to which (says Dr. Calamy