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Art . II . Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the late Rev . W ~ + Wood , F . L . 8 . and Minister of the Protestant Dissent ing Chapel , at Mill Hili x in , Leeds * To which are subjoined aw Address delivered at hi % Imiermenty otv Tuesday ^ April 5 ,. and a S ^ ermon * on occasion of his Death , preached on Sunday s April 10 ,, 1803 . By eharFes Wellbeloved . Printed at Leeds / ibr J . Johnson ^ Longman and Co . 8 vo . pp . 1 Q 7 -
Our readers have been presented with some account of Mav Wood in the last volume of the ' Monthly ; . ' . l ^ QpQpitoly * . * I * heset cc Memoirs '' his u Life and ! Writings' /? are , as might be expected , far more copious ; and they certainly place his character in a very honourable light . "To pass with credit through the '
preparatory sfcetaes of education , and to form an extensive acquaintance * with ) na * tural and ipojral science ,, he did not ] considers , sufficient- He had seen the finest talents neglected , and the aniplest stores * ofItno ^ eage tying * comparatively Useleasj for-w ^ n t ' of that propmety . and '
energy o £ maimer wijich is essential to : the effectual communication of religiousinstruction to a niixed assembly . — It was therefore his " determination that truth-. ^ hiouMnot' striker in his hands , nor the
cause of . reiigior * and virtue be impeded , by thp neglecet of thosa useful , these honest arts which are necessary to ensure for the lesspns of the public instructor a favourable » reception . And , ' * adds his biographer ; "if the not misled . by th «
partiality o £ f rJ ^ n ^ Wp * his labours t 4 > aecur ^ this laudable purpose were as sueceBsfui as ih ^ if were wise , " ( Pp . 163 ,
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His abilities in the pulpit and his agreeable conduct in private life received an affectionaX ' e te $ ~ timoiiy from a dissenting society at Ipswich ^ , when they were appreliensive of lus renioviil front thert , in order to takei the"charger oT that assembling in tiie OW Meeting , at Birminghain ( pp . 12 —• ¦ 15 . ) with which , neverrtieless * * owing we believe , to a most Unjustffialilfi ; interference , on the part ' of a minister in ttie iieiwhbour * hood of tfcat town , he vj&i not after a } l , cphnected . Of the value of His public service ' s xVe may judg £ from those of his detntonswhich have . 6 (^ en printe d , arid ' from a few passages extracted in ? these inemoirs from others , vphkrfr are well deserving of bjeing committed to the pres ^ . M'V , VWcrodV was no tTrisel eloqaeUCe : it " w&& the result and the expression of ar Ib ^ ainou ^ ^ a / comprehensive and an active mii > d ; and they" » whd coroptire th ' e Sermons' bn . " * l 9 ftci » f
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R&zieVk—Memoirs of the fate Rev . W . TFoaxh ISQt
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c scripture is ' - given by irispiiration of CdcJ ^ aaid is profitable / Giiricsbacbr has $ 10 same and prefixes to * atidf no mark of omission . The evidence for its omission we consider as very inade- * qxiate to justify the reading , of the I , V . and we beg leave to refer the reader to the , exaroi nation of the evidence in Dr ; F \ wdlay ' s traet ; oil the text . We wish that the
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obviotis aculnen o £ tke editof 5 ha < been employed in unlvasing thai Gordian knot ; we-feel | iaj i nex ^ tri ^ a ^ ble , difficult in tine commoor reading- ; - r . - - In > our next nunrl ^ e ?^ , we = expect , ouvrQixmrks ( respecting tiiQ trans la ^ tiojiitself ) will have less t-h ^ tone oCGexisuTe ; . aaid we hope that they will be more interesting to the general ; readerj than the preceding can be .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1809, page 159, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1734/page/39/
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