The publication attracted considerable attention, and raised a great additional clamour against the author, from those who had recently been excited by so much bigoted animosity against what they were pleased to style the ‘new notions;’ and who were incessant in their endeavours not to refute his arguments, but to blacken his character, and render him obnoxious to the illiberal and narrow-minded. Their conduct, however, in this respect, did not provoke him to a retaliation unworthy of his enlightened and candid mind, or lead him to forget what was due from a consistent follower of a meek and suffering Saviour; so that he might say with the Apostle, ‘being reviled we bless, being persecuted we suffer it, being defamed we entreat.’
From Ashwick, Mr. Foster, after some time, removed to Trowbridge, in Wiltshire, where was