ADDRESSED TO THE INHABITANTS OF BIRMINGHAM, IN REFUTATION OF SEVERAL CHARGES, ADVANCED AGAINST The Diffenters and Unitarians. BY THE REV. MR. MADAN. ALSO, LETTERS TO THE REV. EDWARD BURN, AND Confiderations on the Differences of Opinion among THE SECOND EDITION, WITH SOME ADDITIONS BY JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, L.L.D. F.R.S. To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, fhewing all MR. MADAN'S TEXT. Ne fævi Magne facerdos. VIRGIL. BIRMINGHAM, PRINTED BY J. THOMPSON; AND SOLD BY J. JOHNSON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD, LONDON. MDCCXC. BOTH THE PREFACE. OTH the writing of these Familiar Letters, and the demand that has been for them, were equally unexpected by me. I fhould certainly have contented myself with the publication of my Sermon on the Corporation and Teft Acts, if I had not been called forth to fay fomething more by the injurious representation that was given of the Diffenters in general, with manifeft allufions to myself in particular, by Mr. Madan, a clergyman highly and justly refpected in the place where I live. Alfo, as his reflections were not confined to the fubject of the above mentioned Acts, there was an evident call upon me to give light on those other fubjects on which he appeared to me to have thrown darkness. I therefore thought it highly proper to correct the views that he had given of the principles of the Diffenters, and especially of the Unitarians, and alfo to fhew my neighbours the real conftitution of that church of which he was fo ftrenuous an advocate. If the principles of the Diffenters, and of the Unitarians, appear to advantage on the comparison, it is an advantage which they derive from truth, and the occafion of giving it was not fought for by myself. Though thefe Letters were never advertised in any London Newspaper, they have, by fome means or other, been more generally known, and read, then most of my publications. In confequence of this, befides a republication of all the feparate Parts (five in all) of which they originally confifted, I have now thought proper to republish the whole in an uniform manner, with a few additions and corrections. The demand for the Letters to Mr. Burn, occafioned by his to me, has been nearly equal to that A for |