the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians

‘ [68] I was entered upon a dark scene, and must arm for various, though I knew not what, trials.—I had not been of so unsocial a nature as not to relish the society and love of my dear friends, nor yet so mortified to the world as not to feel some difference between contempt and respect, fulness and straits; but still my convictions of truth were so clear, that these things never staggered my resolutions of adhering to it in the midst of all discouragements. Yet Mr. Boyse, in the preface to his Answer to my Humble Inquiry, taxes me with insincerity in continuing so long in communion with those of a different persuasion. But as I think it was matter deserving of great deliberation, so I did not see any thing sinful required of me: we worshiped one God through Jesus Christ the Mediator, and I had my part in leading the devotions of the society. We had no worship of three modes expressed; and other men's different confused notions did not affect my worship when not imposed on me, who still say that, if they worshiped but one infinite Supreme Mind, they worshiped the same object of supreme worship with me; and as for the secret worship of three modes, of which there is not one word in scripture, I understand no more than themselves what they mean by those terms, or rather they mean nothing at all by them that I can find; and I am persuaded that not three of the whole church could agree in the same rational account, if put to it, of these matters.’

On his return to Ireland, Mr. Emlyn found that a great clamour had been raised against him in his absence, both in the pulpit and elsewhere: he therefore thought that justice to himself as