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Maryland, he told him he would if he would subscribe
to his Organ, which was to be a speaking organ to be
worked by water or Steam and to preach to the whole City.
The Rev. Doctor smiled, made his bow and took leave.
He had a great horror of premature interment, and
wished the public authorities here to make regulations to
prevent the hastening of funerals; he wrote on this subject
and collected many curious and well attested cases to support his
belief of its frequency. I cannot pretend to explain
or elucidate his views in his religious theory and I do not
know whether the work is in sufficient forwardness to
show it, but he was a true Christian tho' many
misjudged him, by supposing otherwise; but he was
inimical (having been educated a Quaker) to all
priest -craft and many of the Dogmas of the Church, and
formed a theory of his own, which he thought he could fully
support by the Bible and Testament--particularly the latter.
Having peculiar opinions, many persons not hearing
his doctrine explained (which as I said before he hoped
to do fully, having collected many interesting documents
to elucidate his theory) thought him, most erroneously