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The Book-lform . No . !• . Sir , Jreb . 1 , 1812 , As you have lately presented to your readers , 4 < Extracts from New Publications , " will you accept , occasionall y 3 from a rambler a * mong old books , some account of tis discoveries ? The contrabt may be not imam using , and by the licence allowed in your miscellaneous department I shall pgss , without scruple ,
From grave to gay , from sportnre severe . The articles in these papers shall be strictly confined to . works which preceded the JErti of Reviews , and of thi se to such onlv as I have an opportunity of consulting far myself . I begin with / that work of ,
generally acknowledged merit , '' fief-ignite IVottoninnce or a Collection of Lives , Letters , Poems ; with
Characters of Sundry Personages , and other incomparable pieces of language abd art . By the curious pencil of the ever-memorable Sir Heriry Woiton , Knl . late Provost of Eaton College . 4 th ed . 1685 . "
Sjr H . Wotton is to be considered rather as . a statesman and am accomplished scholar than a divine , though in his latter years he took deacon ' orders , to comply with the statutes pn becoming Provost of Eton College , where he had for an associate c % the
ever-meroorable John Hales , " whom he used to call Bibliotheca Ambulitns , " Wotton , like his friend and relation , Lord Bacon , ventured to explore the , recesseis of s £ rhol ^» tic tbeolpgy . The great philosopher , as yo ^ TUilve shew n ( ML ftepo $ . ii . 535 , ) . bad > t , aste t f pF Trinitarian Parddfix&s . Wpj , ton ; , ty ^ t- " ^ meditation * W > on Christmas d ^ y : © f the birth and pit ^ run ^ ge of our Saviour Christ , ibii eartn , " to whom the whole is a direct address .
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Speaking of our Lord ^ s Jbfrth ^ of JVtary , , he adds * of kll teonitn the most blessed ; and yet mor £ 'BFesfc ~ ed by being thy daughter and thy servant than Jhy mother . " ( p . 270 . ) In the same address , he thtis
describes the ^ evidence on which he received the Deity of Chris * t , 44 How should we have 'known , how should we have apprehended thy eternal gene ration , / 'if thou hadst not been pleased to
vouchsafe a silly Jisherman to leato on thy breast , and to inspire Lim to tell us from his boat that in ^ the beginning was the wopd ^ aha the word ivas with Gro ~ d \ end tk $ utOTd was God . "
Wotton has the merit , tvhatever it be , of exhibiting that idea which Watts afterwards expanded so poetically into a throng of God burning with vengeance , only to foe appeased by the tich drtbjii of the blood of Jesus . 1 find the
thought in a hymn which he communicated to his friend and biographer Isaac Walton . Being a short and no unfair specimen of the transitions which abound in orthodox poetry , it is here quoted from p . 362 .
A Hymn to my God in a night qf my late sickness . Oh thoti great P ^ wer * in Whom I move , Fojr whom I live , to whom I dic t Behold me through thy beams of love Whilst on this couch of tears I lie ; And cleanse my sordid soul within By thy Christ's blood , the Bath of Sin .
No hallbw'd oyls , no grains I need , No rags of Saints , no purging fire 5 One rosie dropjrom David ' s seed ( fas worlds of seas tq quench thine ire , * O precious ransom ! which once paid , T ? hat c&rtsuminatum est was said *
And iaid by hini that said no tnprc But sealM it *? th his dying breath . Thou then , t ? h * t JiastttiafcoiigM ikf &titc , And dying wast the death of Death , Be to me now / on Thee I call ^ r . My life , my strength , my joy , my all .
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154 The Bmh-Worm . No . I .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1812, page 154, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1746/page/18/
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