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    GLEAN INGS , OIL SELECTIONS AND REfLECTlONSj MADE TI { A COURSE OF GENERAL READING .

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    [ A Correspondent having suggested the plan of this paper , and favoured us with ^ contributions towards it , we have commenced ity and intend to continue it monthly . Communications for it will be acceptable . Passages for the Gleaners * department , should possess two of the qualities of an epigram ; they should be short and full of point . Ed . ]

    No . I . ilfr . Lindsey compared to the evermemorable Mr . John Hales . The private manner in which Mr . Lindsey had by his Will ordered himself to be buried , may

    pe justly regretted by his friends , who were hereby prevented from shewing publicly their esteem and veneration of his character , but it was an indication of his singular humility . He wished-that as his

    body passed through the streets , no bell should toll to disturb the Uvi 7 ig . Like many other men of extraordiaary merit , and superior piety he desired to steal from the world . ' ' His Last Will and Tcs . tament resembled in this particular that of the ever-memorable * Mr .

    John Hales , of Eton , which contains the following clause . 4 < As for my funeral , I ordain , that , at the time of the next even song after my departure ( if conveniently it may be ) my body be laid in the church-yard of

    the town of Eton ( if I chance there to die ) as near as may be to the body of my little godson Jack Dickinson , the elder ; and this to be done in plain dndsimple manner , without any sermon , or ringing the bell , or calling the people together ; ivithout any unsezsonahl ccommessution or compo ** tat ion ) or other solemnities , on such occasions

    usv . And I strictly command my executrix , that , neither of her own head , neither at the importunity or authority of any orher ^ neither upon any other pretence whatsoever , to take upon her to dispense with this point of my will ; for , as in my life * I have done the church no service , so 1 will noty tbat ^ in my dea r th , the cbureb 4 o me any honour * *

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    Mr Hales ' s character as drawn by Pearson , Bishop of Chester , in his Preface to Golden Remains , also resembles . Mr . Lindsey ' s as described in the Funeral Sermons

    for him . After giving an account of his prodigious learning ( for which this " incomparable person " is called by JV 6 o f ( 9 ( Athen . Qx * Oft . ) Ci a walking library . " ) The

    Bishop says , " Although this may seem , as in itself it truly is , a grand eulogium , yet I cannot esteem him less in any thing which belongs to a good man , than in those intellectual perfections : and had he never understood a letter , he had other ornaments sufficient to endear him . For he

    was of a nature ( as we ordinarily speak ) so kind , so sweet , so courting all mankind , of an affability so prompt , so ready to receive all conditions of men , that I conceive it near as easy a task for any one to become so knowing , as so obliging .

    << As a Christian ,- npne more ever acquainted with the gospel , because none more studious of the knowledge of it , or more curious in the search , which being strengthened by those great advantages before mentioned , could not prove otherwse than highly effectual . He took , indeed , to himself , a liberty of judging , not

    of others but for himself ; and if ever any man might be allowed in these matters to judge , it was he , who had so long ^ much , so advantageously considered ; and which is more , never could be said to have had the least worldly design in his determinations . He was not only

    most truly and strictly just in his secular transactions , most exemplary , meek and kumble , notwithstanding his perfections , but beyond all example charitable , giving unto all , preserving nothing but his books to continue hie learning and himself , ' *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1809, page 28, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1732/page/28/