CONTROVERSY

BETWEEN

Mrs. HANNAH MORE,

AND

THE CURATE OF BLAGDON

RELATIVE TO THE

CONDUCT OF HER TEACHER

OF

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL

IN THAT PARISH;

WITH THE

ORIGINAL LETTERS,

AND

EXPLANATORY NOTES;

By THOMAS BERE, M. A.

RECTOR OF BUTCOMBE, NEAR BRISTOL.

Tantæne animis cæleftibus iræ. VIR.

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HE Author with the most unfeigned difference, hopes the public will indulgently receive his apologies, for the publication of the following fheets.

He did all he could do, to prevent the publicity of the matter in controversy, and even now, very fincerely laments, that unpleasant neceffity, which protrudes him to the foreground; to a delicate mind always formidable; frequently dangerous; and never defireable.

He has long borne with irrefistance; almost every fpecie of injury, infult, and obloquy; that the malevolence of an unmerciful party could invent, or its calumny fafely circulate;