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    0 n himself , the jnstractlon of the young . For the zeal which he displayed aad excited , to forward this most important object , his praise is in all our churches .

    Page 553 , T . Scoft- ^ nowyl be-Ueve , chiefly known by his Book of Job in English verse , translated from the original Hebrew with remarks , historical , critical , and escplanatory . " The second edition . 8 vo » was m 1773 . This

    work has been well received * M r . S . probably meant to describe Jive hours as a moderate portion of time bestowed upon an

    ordination . He had , no doubt , heard of Mr * Say ' s predecessor I > r ; Calamy ' s ordination in 1694 , which occupied eight hours . Dr . Kippis ( Biog . Brit . iii . 143 ) remarks that it . " was the first

    public transaction of that kind which had taken place amongst the Dissenters , since the passing of the Act of Uniformity / ' He has added the following particulars concerning it from Or , C / s ** Historical Account of his own

    Life , " still in manuscript . " Hitherto these services had been carried on in the presence pnly of the ordainers and the ordained . Mr * . Calamjv who was determined that his own ordinal

    tion should be conducted as publicly as possible ^ found a considerable difficulty in executing his design . The famous Mr * John Howe declined engaging in it , from the fear of gkif * g oflfence to government ; and I > i > Bates excused , himself for some o * her

    rea-$ oiu At length , howeve % the ^ n atter was ^ ccowiplished ^ and ix yossogminister be & ide 3 / w ^ re ordained at the $ amo time . These wer # Mr . Joseph Jtenneiu Jtfr .

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    Thomas Reynolds , Mr « Joseph Hill , Mr . William King , Mr . Ebenezer Bradshaw , and Mr . Joshua Bayes . Th ^ ordainers

    were Dr . Samuel Annesley , Mr , Vincent Alsop , Mr . Daniel VfiU liams , Mr . Thomas Kentish , Mr . Stretton , and Mr . Matthew Sylvesier « The whole service lasted

    from ten o ' clock in the morning till past six in the evening /' Should you encourage this attempt to add a little to the

    amusement and information of your work , you may perhaps hear from me ti ^ gain afte r the same fashion . Though no student , I have been at short intervals of leisure a ,

    very miscellaneous reader , and am no longer a young man . If C 6 narrative with age / ' I should ci wind the lengthened tale' * be .

    yond your prescribed limits , you will snap the thread of my discpurse . If my light burn dim , indeed , before I am awar $ of it , I shall depend upon your jus *

    Mce and compassion to put ma out with your editorial extinguisher , QUINQUAGENARIUS *

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    Jon . 3 , 1811 . P » S . The design you express of inserting my letter , induces me to send you this addition on looking over the last number *

    John Wesley—his dying not worth ten pounds ( p * 620 ) was the redemption of a pledge given nearly fifty year ? before . In one of his earliest defences of

    Methodism * entitled , I believe , An Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion , he expresses this- senti - ment , in nearly the following terms : If besides tfte va ] ue of my book * , and the income of my

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1810, page 637, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1708/page/17/