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phraseology , and particularly by his having committed to memory the whole Book of Pfcalms . Throughout every scene of life " his love to Gad and benevolence to men were manifested in the
tranquillity of his temper , the mildness and c hear fulness of his aspect , and the conciliating affability of his manners . * He was a Christian who might be adduced as an evidence of the efficacy of Unitarian principles in
forming a character of moral ex . ceilency of the highest order , and in whom the superior and distinguishing effects of those principles were decisively realized . Happily
for him he had never embraced any ptber , and was thereby saved the labour and perplexity of correcting a creed taken up in early life , that would not bear the test
of mature and rational investigation . This circumstance might probably contribute , together with the peculiar cast of his temper , to prevent his making ; that open and decided avowal ot his opinion
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perspicuity and energy that none who sat under his ministry , even the most stupid and inattentive of them , might have been at any loss to know what he preached and what they were to believe ! He had , however , the honour of being
one amongst a very few of thfc ministers belonging to the rational Dissenters who had outstepped their cotemporaries in the ascent to the temple of primitive Christianity * Half a century ago , before , according to the prediction
of Dr . Lardner- " " the pride of of Dr . Lardner , the pride of Arianism had a fall / 9 there were not , perhaps , more than ten ministers in the kingdom who were known to coincide in the senti - ments contained in < 4 the Letter on the Logo £ , " written by thii Prince of modern divines .
Mr . Beverley ' s name stands with those of that small but truly respectable band , the Doctors Lai dner , Fleming and Eaton , and the ; Messrs . Cardale , Cappe , Graham , Turner , &c
It is chiefly , however , as an exemplary Christian and a prac * tical divine that be was known , and will be . remembered . Few them ever were to whom the words of the apostle could foe more strictly applied , , Hie b ^ d a gaoxl report of all men , and of the truth itself / 1
fcjjs la ^ t d ay ^ were , as might have beeut e ^ pect , ect from bl 3 previous fcabit ^ anjd conduct , brightened by the cQOSQlaiiottf q { religtoa , and ^^ peciaUy the hope of immortality .
Tim Strain of bis cpnwrsation m the vxid&t oi iut ^ lleetual waate « was characteristif- The writer of tbi 3 account ^ kuowiog that ke was gratified by QQj ^ sjsxssiAQIl rjel ^ ting aBd
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434 Rev . John Betertey *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1812, page 434, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1752/page/2/
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