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      ences had taken place . " I press you to this , " ( said he , ) P because it should be the design and desire of every member to increase the kingdom of Christ , to have his image , and ndt their own stamped upon the souls of men . If I have the image of Christ stamped upon my soul , " ( he would say , ) " I shall be

      sure to go to heaven ; but I may enjoy both sorts of baptism and go to hell after all / 7 He lived to see the happy revolution , and survived that memorable and interesting event some years . He died in 1699 , aged 62 . His sop , John Owen , was in the ministry , and attained to eminence , with every prospect of

      becoming a great man , had he lived ; but he died the very next year , I think , after his father , aged only 30 . The late celebrated Hugh Farmer , of Walthamstow , was a grandson of Mr . Hugh Owen , by the female line . The memory of Hugh Owen is still held in no small veneration by many of his pious coun ^ trymen . [ To be continued . ]

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      COGMAGOQ ON THE STUDY PF POLITICS , AND T £ E LAT £ » * . j THANKSGIVING SERMONS , To the Editor of the Mpnth ty / Repository . sir ,

      I am too much flattered by your ? f prompt insertion"' of my letter in the first number of the Repository to take offence at the < caution / ' to which you refer me in your hints and notices to your numerous correspondents ; though I am of so oddly constituted a mind , as to think that the caution betrays , at least , as much timidity as " prudence , " and to fear that it will be

      mistaken by some of your readers as an unfavourable omen of the future character of your work j . which wilLgrievously disappoint che expectations of those who like myself have taken thiiv idea of it from your Prospectus , if it do not differ , and that considerably too , from all other periodical publications ; if it be not much superior to a journal of sentiment , or a collection of

      literary trifles , or ^ a record of metaphysical debate ; if it do not worship some other deity besides candour , with her < c Chinese ^ baby-face , " her listless asiatic figure , her lisping elocution , her censor of cloying incense ^ and her never * -failing cruise of oil , the

      flattering unction which she lays to men ' * souls to mollify them , forsooth , and to flatter them into virtue ; if it be not , in shorty bold , and fearless of offence , if it be not among the religious World , what Cato was among the degenerate Romans ., if it be not f a terror / ' to theological I evil-doiprs . ^

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      On the Study of Politics . 123

      Miscellaneous Communications.

      MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1806, page 123, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1722/page/11/