A letter from a clergyman to Miss Mary Blandy, now a prisoner in Oxford Castle; with her answer thereto : as also Miss Blandy's own narrative of the crime for which she is condemn'd to die ... To which is prefixed, a letter occasioned by reading Miss Blandy's trial.

  • Blandy, Mary, 1720-1752
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[1752]
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Credit: A letter from a clergyman to Miss Mary Blandy, now a prisoner in Oxford Castle; with her answer thereto : as also Miss Blandy's own narrative of the crime for which she is condemn'd to die ... To which is prefixed, a letter occasioned by reading Miss Blandy's trial. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to-be thought.an infidel? Alas! mifs, externals are ba - the hufks of piety ; they are eafy to the hypocrite,---4¥ The body may bow down in the houfe of God, yet th foul do homage to Belial.<---s--God forbid, that this) fhould touch you.---- , And indeed, to be fincere, when on the one hand, I! view the arguments of your guilt, and, on the other, be-: hold your ftrong affertions of innocence, to the hazard-. ing of the foul, if untrue, Iam greatly perplexed, I! know not what to fay or believe.----The alternative, I) prefume, is, you are either a believer, and innocent, or an infidel and guilty. But that holy religion which I profefs, obliging me, in all cafes of doubt, to incline ta the moft charitable con{tru@ion; I fay, that I am wil- lingly perfuaded, that you believe in the above mentions ed truths, and ate in fome degree innocent. ae You have, dear mifs, applied to temporal counfel, with regard to the determination of your body.-«--They have failed.---Your life is forfeited to juftice.---You are. already dead in the cye of the law.+--»-Oh! mifs, the counfel which my poor underftanding gives, is fpiritual may that be more fuccefsful.---May God grant that the fate of your foul may not refemble the fate of your bo- dy! may it not perifh and die for ever! pel “Now, mifs, you muft neceffarily be in one of thefe two fituations; you muft either be innocent, by not dee ficning to hurt your father; or you defigned to kill your father, and are guilty, and conceal your guilt for private reafons. Permit me to offer fomething upon each of thefe heads.---> : which all the fons of 4dam-fhall appear, and from which