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worship . The professed design of . the-English establishment is to prevent variety of opinion . Both ministers and people are , therefore , to be considered as in the presence of a God of truth , giving their unfeigned as&ent and consent to every thing contained in the Book of Common Prayer . How far they can justify this to their own consciences , we must leave : let them
recollect the words of Christ- — " Call no man master upon earth : one is your master , even Christ . " But to return to the subject of these memoirs , Mr . Holder * was earnestly pressed to send one of his sons , who had received his education for the ministry among the Dissenters , for a vear
or two , to Oxford or Cambridge . With true liberality , for he never forced his opinions even on his children * hs communicated the proposal , which was instantly rejected . The subject was afterwards renewed by a respectable clergyman of the Establishment , residing at Maldon , but with the same result . About this time he was requested to take a few young persons for . grammar-education . This excited the jealousy of a clergyman resident at Maldon , who had the endowed gramiriar-sehool , and the care of the library . As Mr . Holden had not subscribed , nor would subscribe ^ the articles then by law required of Protestant Dissenting ministers and school-masters , this gentleman was sufficiently illiberal to threaten , and was
about to commence , a prosecution against him ; but the subject of these memoirs was well known to the bishop of London , and had only to write to him , when it was immediately stopped * and this with a reprimand , not very pleasing to the person by Wfcom it was so justly merited- This bigotted son of the church , however , from that time , behaved to the object of his jealousy with the utmost respect .
In the year nn 3 Mr . Holden published his Paraphrase on Job , Psalms , Proverbs , and Ecclesiastes , in four volumes , for the use of families and , in \ 116 y in two volumes , his Paraphrase on Isaiah . During his residence at Maldon , he was much persuaded by several Dissenting ministers in London * to offer himself as a candidate to Supply the English church at
Rotterdam , and he went over for this purpose ; but here he did not succeed . This was probably owihg to the great liberality of his sentiments , or the " crying sin" of heresy ; for he had not the smallest tincture of CalVinistic divinity about him , and wanted what the foreign divines , and those of the
Scotch church , call unction . ' * He , however ,, embraced this opportunity of enriching his library with the works of several of the most celebrated foreign writers . The nse he made of them appears in his different paraphrases : these r at the same time , it must be allowed , are better calculated for the ek > set ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1806, page 562, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1730/page/2/
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