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remember that , one Sundays two carpenters from London went with me to hear him , who , after service was over , came to me to inquire whether what they had heard that morning was similar to what he generally preached ? When I told them it was
they appeared disarmed of their prejudices , and manifested much surprise , as was the case with several others even of the natives , which occasioned his audience at times to he very respectable . His discourses were usually practical , easyto be understood , and reducible to common life . One observation
he often made viz , " -that no man ought to value himself solely on the correctness of his sentiments , but to consider that he was laid by them under greater obligations to obedience . " In his prayers he was devout and free from the error , which many fall into , of multiplying words when addressing the Divine Being , as though he wanted information . When
he bowed the knee of supplication , it was to the common and good parent of all his creatures , who had taught us by his son Jesus Christ to approach him by the familiar appellation o £ Our Father . At these times he was very earnest in desiring that we might be partakers of all the benefits intended by the Gospel , and expressed , when these seasons of prayer occurred , his thankfulness for his friends , and his desire that now he and
his family were brought into a land of liberty , their zeal for religion might not suffer any abatement , or sink into lukewarmness . Since the death of this venerable disciple of Jesus Christ , I have sometimes been led to wonder that some persons , to the dishonour of Christianity , should treat his faith as
no better than that of an heathen , and as unable to afford him any more ground of certainty respecting his future state in Ris dying moments than their ' s . A man more satisfied with the dispensations of Divine Providence I never saw , nor one that
had imbibed more of the spirit of Christianity . To me his faith seemed simply fixed upon the infinite placability of God . He constantly represented that all his revelations , whether by patriarchs , prophets , or in the glorious gospel of his Son , were all manifest expressions of his kindness and love , and wisely calculated to produce those benevolent ends for which they were designed . Viewing mankind from the beginning * , Subject to go astray and lose the knowledge of their Go , d amongst the
creatures of his hands , owing to , which alienation of heart and the commission of sin ensued , he argued that though former dispensations had done much to counteract this evil , the revelation of Jesus Christ was far superior to all that had preceded it , as it gave us clearer ideas of the I ) ivine Being and the way ot salvation , offering a free pardon to every repenting sinner ,
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Particulars of Dr * Priestley , 395
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1806, page 395, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1727/page/3/
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