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of Chrift with a race of minifters, who fhall 
anite learning with piety ; orthodoxy (I ufe 
the word in its ftri&t philological fenfe) with 
charity ; andcandour with zeal. No pofition 
is More common among Proteftants than this 
—That fcripture is, without human additi- 
Ons, acomplete rule of faith and praétice. 
Endeavour, gentlemen, on all occafions, to 
a& in perfec confiftency with it. Study the 
facred records. Srudy them with clofe and 
perfevering attention. Avail yourfelves ot 
€very advantage for underftanding their ge- 
muine import. Make yourfelves thoroughly 
acquainted with the original languages of the 
Old and New Teftament; and carefully at. 
tend to the peculiar phrafeology of {cripture 5 
the cuftoms of ancient times; the particu- 
lars of the fituation of thofe, te whom dif- 
ferent parts of fcripture refer, or to whom 
they were immediately addreffed; that fo you 
may attain’an accurate and comprehenfive ac- 
quaintance with thoie fcriptures which are 
able to make you wife unto falvation, and 
which moft of you propofe to make the fub- 
ject of ‘your future infrudtions te others. 
Never prefume to di€tate to the facred ora- 
cles, but account it your honour to be guided 
by them. Andcail no man mafter upon earth, 
zemembering thatone is your mafter, even 
Chritt-? - 
Thankful, Mr. Editor, for the ufe of 
your Magazine, I readily fub{cribe my-, 
felf, Sir, your obliged humble fervant, 
JoHN HorRsrEyY. 
Northampton, Feb. 15, 1798. 
ee 
Yo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR. he . 
OBSERVE in Youne’s View of 
Suffolk Agriculture, a plan of the 
Rev. Mr. MoseEty, of Drinkiton, for 
ploughing in for manure, the principle of 
which is excellent; ploughing in Buck- 
wheat after a crop of tares, as a manure 
and preparation for wheat. ‘There is 
only one obje&tion, as far as I know, to 
this, but itis a material one: of all crops, 
tares are the moft hazardous to get up tor 
fodder, for, if once they are encountered 
by a fhower or two of rain, you will hardly 
ever get them dry again, and being a 
ymore fucculent plantthan grafs, they take 
fo much time to make properly, that they 
muft be much expoied, efpecially when cnt 
early, as this plant requires. I will ven- 
ture to fay, from experience, that three 
times ont of four, they will be to 
much damaged, as to be of very little 
worth, and this has prevented many m- 
telligent farmers from meddling with 
them, unlefs in fmall quantities, to cut 
greén for foiling horles, &c, Ona large 
feale they will not aniwer. AAN.Y. 
‘se 
Culiure of Fares.... Mr. Rivers’s Defence. 
{Feb. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
OUR known candour, and a regard 
tothe principles of juftice, will, I 
truft, induce you to give an early infertion 
of this letter, which is in anfwer to a 
moft flagitious, unprovoked, and out- 
rageous perfona} attack upon me by fome 
Man, or rather a dajiardly Afjafin, who - 
fhields himfelf under the fignature of A 
Proteftant Diffenter, in a letter inferted 
in_your Magazine of the laft month. Iam 
fenlible you do net with the Monthly 
Magazine to become the vehicle of flan- 
der and defamation, but fuch it undoubt- 
edly became laft mouth, for more atro- 
cious lies‘were never forged than thofe 
contained in the brief, but infamous letter 
referred to. I wave faying any thing re- 
{pecting my pamphlet, after what the 
moft refpeétable literary journalifts have 
faid refpeéting it, which feems to have 
excited the rage of the anonymous {crib- 
bler. The facts I have ftated in that 
pamphlet I challenge any diffenter to 
deny. Your correfpondent aflerts, I never 
was patronized or encouraged as a preacher 
by the diffenters. To confute fo infa~ 
mous a falfehood, I have faéts to lay be~. 
fore the public, fhould I think it necef- 
fary to adduce them, that would infai- 
libly tend to the confufion and difgrace 
of the wretch, who has moft wantonly 
endeavoured (if he poflibly had been able) 
to have injured my character and reputa- 
tion. Suffice it, Sir, to fay, at prefent, 
that I was patronized by the Pre/byterian 
Diffenters ; that I was recommended and 
introduced to that congregation at High- 
gate, which I ferved two years, by one of 
the moft popular minifters among them, 
and that I received a trifling fum from 
the Prefbyterian fund. Thef are taéts 
which I am ready to fubftantiate when- 
ever called upon. Asto what yeur cor- 
refpondent remarks relative to my //y/ng 
myfelf the Reverend, I think proper te 
inform you, it .was firft gwen me, and I 
have as full a right to ufe it as any Dif- 
fenting miniftey whatever, as the law 
of the land does not allow that title to any 
Diffenting minifter, and when given him 
it is through courte/y. Iam, Sir, 
Your humble fervant, 
* D. RIVERS. 
Northumberland Coffee-Houfe, 
Pen. re aod. 


-* Having admitted this reply, we thall 
infert no other letters on the fubje@, except 
they are {ubfantiated by the writer's name. 
Epir. 
Pe 
