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troublesome times ,, and that he was a person of great learning : is evident from that and other parts of his works .
" The author of the life of the very learned Humphrey Prideaux , in page 17 , supposes that Bishop and Dean Fell and I > r . Allestry wrote some of the pieces ascribed to the author o £ The Whole Duty of Man . " Th , T&oughear . " This Th . Troughear , the Editor supposes , though having
picked up the book in London he cannot speak with certainty , to have been the same person who was many years ago Rector of Northwood , Isle of Wight , and who left behind him a proof
of his jealousy and dislike of the Dissenters in a pamphlet which he wrote against them a little before his death , intitled ( if the Editor ' s memory is correct ) A Legacy to his Parishioners . The following are the passages , one from the Lively Oracles , the other from Prideaux ' s Life , to which he alludes .
** I would not be hasty in charging idolatry upon the church of Ronve , or all in her comx&union ; but that their image worship is a most fatal snare , in which vast numbers of unhappy souls are taken , no man can doubt , who hath with any regard travelled in Popish countries * I myself , and thousands ^ o £ others whom the late troubles or other occasions sent abroad *
are and have been witnesses thereof . " " This good Bishop ( Fell ) , was for his piety , learning , and wisdom , esteemed one of the most eminent prelates of his time ; attd the college ( Christ-church , Oxford ) , which long £ enjoyed the benefit of his wise and useful government , is so much indebted to him on that account , as well as for his
buildings and other benefactions , that he may deservedly be esteemed the second founder .
cc Prideaux always looked on hnn , as the author of the book called The Reasons of ' the Decay of Christian Pietyy which came out in the name of the author of The Whole Duty of Man ; and his reasons for it were , that in the summer 1676 , he made a visit to Sir William Morice at Werrington , in the county of Devon , who was his uncle , having married a sister of his father's , when amongst other discourse that passed between them , Sir William told him he thought Bishop Fell was the author of that book : for that whilst he attended at court as
secretary of state , a little after the Restoration , he he&rd the Bishop preach a sermon in the King's chapel T with which Bfe was so much pleased , that he desired to have a eopy of it ,
which was accordingly presented to him ; and that some years after , on the publication of the book called The Decay of Christian Piety , he found the sermon in the very same words im
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74 The Whole Dutif of Man ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 74, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/18/
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