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    candour towards his opponent . He gave the most liberal latitude to free inquiry , and could bear to hear those truths attacked which he most stedfastiy believed ; the more because he stedfastly believed them , for he was delighted to submit to the test of argument , those truths , which he had no doubt could , by argument , be defended .

    He had an uncommon now of conversation on those points which had engaged his attention , and delivered himself with a warmth and animation whicfy enlivened the dryest subject . Pie

    was equally at home in trench and English literature , and the exquisite sensibility of his mind , with the early culture his taste had received , rendered him an excellent judge of all those works which appeal to the heart and the

    imagination . His feelings were equally quick and vivid , his expressive

    countenance was the index of his iftind , and of every instantaneous impression made upon it . Children ; who are the best physiognomists , were always attracted to him and he delighted to entertain them with lively narratives suited to their & ge , in which he had great

    invention . The virtues of his heart will be acknowledged by all who knew him . His benevolence was enlarged . It was the spontaneous propensity of his nature , as well as the result of his religious

    system . He was temperate , almost to abstemiousness ; yet without any tincture of ascetic rigour . A free , undaunted spirit , a winning simplicity , yi tendency to enthusiasm , but of the gentle and liberal kind , formed the prominent

    lineaments of his character . The social affections were all alive

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    , 708 Memoir of the Rev . R . Bafbauld ,

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    and active in him . His heart overflowed with kindness to all ^ the lowest that came within his sphere . 'There never was a human being who had less of the

    selfish and worldly feelings . They hardly seemed to form a part of

    his nature . His was truly the charity which thinketh no ill . Great singleness of hearty and a candour very opposite to the suspicious temper of worldly sagacity , made him slow to impute '

    tinworthy motives to the actions of his fellow-men : yer his candour by no means sprung from indifference to moral rectitude , for when he could no longer resist xonviction his censure was

    decided , and his indignation " warm and warmly expressed . His standard of virtue was high , and he felt no propensities which disposed him to lower if " . His re * ligious sentiments were of the most pure and liberal cast , and his

    pulpit services , when the state of Jhis spirits seconded the ardour of his mind , were characterized by the rare union of a warm fervent spirit of devotion , with a pure , sublime philosophy , supported by arguments of ' metaphysical . acuteness . He did not speak the

    language of any party , nor exactly coincide with the systems of any * He was a believer in the pre-existence of Christ , and in a certain modified sense , in the atonement ; thinking those doctrines most

    consonant to the tenor of scripture ^ and he was not well-pleased when any denied to a' belief such ' as his , the title of Unitarian , or worshipper of one God ; but he was too sensible of the difficulties which press upon every system , not to feel indulgence for all , and he was

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1808, page 708, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1706/page/16/