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rejoiced : in all proper efforts for diffusing them he actively concurred ; and reflection on his piety , benevolence and holiness should at least give pause to those who would represent belief in the undisguised proposition * ' there is one God and one mediator between God and men , the man
Christ Jesus , " as hostile to the virtue , consolations and hopes of human beings . The strain of his preaching was practical , devotional , scriptural and , in the just sense of the word , evangelical . * But though he overlooked
not the doctrines , evidences , motives , promises and threatening of the gospel , he delighted to dwell on its precepts , spirit , history , triumphs and final supremacy , and , most of all , on the character of its founder . The method of public instruction which he recommended to his brethren , he "Was in the habit of observing : he was no friend to merely moral disquisitions or to scholastic reasonings or to
speculations on points which confessedly are no parts of revelation ( however some have attempted to deduce them from its records ) , but thought that a Christian preacher should discourse on passages of the Bible by illustrating their connexion and
import , and then drawing from them natural and pertinent reflections , f Nor -was any tnan more generally acceptable in our pulpits . His subjects ^ vere so appropriate , his manner of
delivery so affectionate and solemn , his voice , for much the greater portion of his life , so pleasing and so deeply toned , that he was frequently invited to officiate on public occasions : and as none ever took warmer
pleasure in the duties of his profession , so scarcely any one has printed an equally large number of single sermons at the request of the persons before whom they were delivered . To the virtues of Dr , Toulnain , as a man and a Christian , it were
diffi-# " though he does not apply the l ; erm Evangelical ^ in the sense in which it is exclusively claimed by a large number in the present day , yet he thinks it truly belongs to those discourses the leading * design of which is to unfold and improve the cliarajctei of Jesus of Nazareth as a messenger of mercy , &c . Sec . " Preface to Sermons , ( 1810 ) vi , vii . f Sermon ^ t Dudley , June , 1813 , 7—9 .
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cult to render justice . In the scale of moral and religious worth he stood exceedingly high , by the suffrages of all who had opportunities of estimating a character that would bear the strictest investigation . He was one
of the last persons who would have suffered it to be said of him that he had few or no defects : without doubt however , they were more visible to his own humility and modest y than to the eye of man . His integrity and honour , his independence of princi .
pie , his steadfastness as a friend , his fidelity in the execution of various and important trusts , his meekness and gentleness so greatly resembling those of Christ , his Master , his gratitude for benefits conferred , his unwearied zeal in doing good to others , in
rendering even the most trifling services to persons of low estate , his uniformly quick sense of compassion for human woes , his sympathy with the distressed , his care to avoid even the appearance of evil and to give no mjiiecessary offence , his admirable
government of his passions , his freedom from every thing like envy , jealousy and detraction , the simplicity of his manners , the candour of his soul , —all these solid and attractive qualities arose from his piety and Christian faith . That piety , never ostentatious ,
yet habitually energetic , was n&auifested not only in the fervour with which he conducted social worship and in his administration of religious ordinances , but in the whole course of his life , in the activity of his youth and manhood , in the serenity of his
age , and especially in his resignation to the Divine will , in his cheerful , thankful spirit , under heavy trials . Though , more than most persons , he had a good report of all men as well as of the truth , yet there were
occasions , forgotten perhaps by none so soon as by himself , on which he had been unjustly and unhandsomely treated ; and though the current of his domestic bliss was generally pure , it was sometimes disturbed and embittered .
On such a heart as his no common wound was inflicted by the loss of promising and amiable children . Still , whatever were the feelings of the man and the father , the principles and hopes of the Christian were unspeakably stronger ; his eye was fixed on immortality .
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$ 6 $ Memoir of the late Rev . Joshua Toulmin , D . D .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1815, page 668, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1766/page/4/
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