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The following is as correct a list as 1 have been able to form of Dr . Toulmin ' s works , classed under the several heads of Biography , History , Controversy ' Practical Heligion and Devotion .
BIOGRAPHY . 1 . Memoirs of the Life , Character , Sentiments and Writings of Faustus Socinus . London 1777 * 8 vo . pp . 471 Of this work , published by
subscription , a copy is rarely to be purchased . The author ' s " design ( pref . ii . iii . ) was not to compose a critical history of Socinianism , but to draw the character of Socinus in that
familiar and popular manner in which lie would represent the life of any great and good man . " It may be added that he has been strictly impartial ; not having concealed the failings of the subject of these memoirs .
2 . A Review of the Life , Character and W ritings of the Rev . John Biddle , M . A . who was banished to the Isle of Scilly , in the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell , London , 1789 . 12 mo . pp . 186 .
This , instructive biographical narrative was reprinted by the London Unitarian Book Society , in 1791 , and has been extensively circulated . S . The Life of Dr . Samuel Morton Savage ( Prefixed to a posthumous volume of his Sermons , of which Dr . Toulmin was editor ) : 8 vo . pp . 23 .
A very pleasing memorial of the gratitude , affection and candour of the biographer as well as of the attainments , talents and virtues of the venerable person whose history and character are here sketched .
4 . Memoirs of the Life of Daniel Neal , M . A . ( Prefixed to a new edition of that author ' s History of the Puritans , &c . ) : Bath and London , 1793 . 8 vo . pp . 42 .
The Rev . Edward Parsons , of Leeds , much to liis honour , has reprinted these Memoirs * as an introduction to his abridgment of the above History , &c .
5 . Biographical Preface to a Posthumous Volume of Sermons , by the Rev . Thomas Twining . London , 1801 . &vo . pp . 16 . 6 . Memoirs of the Rev . Charles Bulkeley . ( Prefixed to three posthumous volumes of that gentleman ' s Rotes on theBihle ) 1802 . 8 vo . pp . 48 .
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7 . Memoirs of the Rev . Samuel Bourn , &c . with an Appendix , con * sisting of various Papers and Letters , and Biographical Notices of some of his Contemporaries , and a Supplement , containing Specimens of his Historical and Catechetical Exercises .
Birmingham and London . 1808 . &vo . pp . 373 . Dr . Toulmin ' s settlement with the congregation of the New Meetinghouse , in Birmingham ( of which Mr . Bourn was , for many years , one of the ministers ) , " forcibly suggested the design of drawing up a biographical work which might revive the
memory and extend the name of a man , peculiarly eminent and useful in his day and circle ; and which might hold up to young ministers a pattern of exemplary ardour and zeal in the duties of the pastoral office and in the cause of religious liberty I "
To the same class may be referred the sermons published by Dr . Toulniin , on occasion of the deaths of friends , many biographical sketches * which he inserted in different periodical publications , and one or two that he printed in the form of small tracts , among which is a Memoir of Mr . Edward ElwaU , Bilston , 1808 , pp . 11 .
( II . ) HISTORY . 1 . The History of the Town of Taunton , in the County of Somerset ( embellished with plates ) . Taunton and London , 1791- 4 to . pp . 191 . 2 . Appendix to History of Taunton .
This History was published by subscription ; and copies of it have long since ceased to be on sale . It is a pleasing and intelligent performance , written in a manly yet candid spirit . In the preface the author expresses his hope . that he has not " directed his thoughts to subjects totally foreign
from the nature of liie profession in which he appears . He has brought forward , " as he adds , " some curiou * particulars , which , in a few years more , for want of being recorded , would be irrecoverably lost . His work will hold up many instances of exertion , directed to the benefit of
* Of these a delineation of the character of the late Rev . John Wardy of Tauntori ) merits particular notice . Protestant JHssewters' Magazine , Vol . iv . 241— -251 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1815, page 669, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1766/page/5/
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