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    as those incognitas , with an assurance of whose existence in high life Mr . BeJsham has alarmed ihe Bishop of London ; being under no such obligation to become a . Trinitarian in the

    country , I passed by the parish church and sought out in a neigbouring village a small congregation of Unitarians , which had nothing to attract regard , but the simplicity of scriptural worship .

    Ihey used the Collection of Psalms and Hymns first published in 1795 , by the late excellent Dr . Kippis , and his coadjutors , three Unitarian ministers still living . One of the Psalm * read for singing was the 229 th , Blest are the souls that hear and know , &e .

    The second stanza , ran thus : Their joy shall bear their spirits up , Through God ' s eternal name : His promises exalt their hope . And who shall dare condemn ?

    I was surprised to find this stanza attributed to Watts , by adding his name to the title of the psalm . The religious occupations of early life had served me to recollect that he had

    written , Their joy shall bear their spirits up Through their Redeemer ' s name , His righteousness exalts their hope . Nor Satan dares condemn .

    The 2 nd line of this stanza he evidently designed for the praise of Christ in his supposed character of God-man , while the third recognised the favourite dogma of the imputed righteousness of Christ , by which the elect being covered , Satan is foiled when , according to the 4 th line , he

    comes forward to accuse them ; a fond conceit , probably borrowed from the poetical introduction to the Book of Job . These three lines appear in my judgment , to contain notions as unscriptural as any fables in the Coran or the Sh aster , yet they were important parts of the author ' s theological system .

    Finding the name of Watts thus freely treated , I had the curiosity to look further into the volume . At

    H . 399 , Sing * to the Lord ye distant lands , the poet's representation of Christ ' s reign as " God ' s own Almighty Son , " and his coming to " bless the nations as their God , ** are expunged and replaced by more scriptural sentiments , I could easily give other examples , in

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    Alterations of Watts * s Hymns in Kippis ' s Selection . & % m

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    to fifteen , twenty , or thirty shillings a-vveek . * But in the management of household affairs , as well as college business , a Glasgow student is directed bv the influence of utility , and apnrob ? tion or disapprobation . He

    knows that vice and extravagance are incompatible with industry ^ nd honourable distinction ; he therefore learns to avoid evil , lest he should forfeit the approbation of his parents , frknf'S , instructors and

    fellow-students ; lest he should frustrate the design for which he was sent to College . These convictions ought to be , and generally are , an ample compensation for strict academical discipline . Few parents have had to complain of the extravagant , habits acquired by their sons at Glasgow : on the

    contrary , it has often been remarked , that those young men who have acquired a knowledge of the value of money , by actual experience , claim a decided superiority over those who have never known what it is to provide for themselves .

    But I must conclude ; for I find I have already far exceeded the bounds of a common letter . I am aware that much more might have been said in less compass . If however I can contribute in any degree towards the

    information of your readers , I shall care little about the profuseness of my style . If your correspondent had been able to discover any thing worthy of admiration in a Scotch College ; if * he had told all the truth , we might have dispensed with his philippics against

    grammar-school colleges , crowded class-room s , " promiscuous society , " &c ., &c .: but a whole catalogue of evils without any mixture of good was not likely to accord with the feedings J > f those who are proud to

    acknow'eage the many and great advantages tney have received from the Univer-Slfcy of Glasgow . u A little more wndour and u little less partiality would do us no harm : ' I subscribe Myself -4 Friend to Pu ?* e Representation .

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    *? "J » Sept . 28 , 1815 . ATE LY spending a Sunday in L U the country , and not being a nitarian of the east doomed to wor-U only in genteel company , such **— .

    2 ^ * ¦ ? Professors' fees are two guineas > with one or two exceptions , which ^ ottat to three guinea * ^ d a half .

• Citation
  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1815, page 629, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1765/page/29/