On this page
-
Text (1)
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
fttr . Masbtf Wa £ electrified with astonishment and grief . He really loved his old college rriend , thought justly of the sotrudtfese of his he&d , and tfery highly appreciated the goodness of hte heart ; he was himself a very worthy , respectable character , but , having devoted his tiine tnote to the study of belles lettres than
of the Scriptures , mixing much in the world , aati viewing tfte subject through the f&ifce mfedimn of its mistakeri principles , he cbiild flat feel the necessity nor comprehend the diify of xnaklag such a sacrifice . Strict integrity , he ^ ate ready to admit , Irr a * the transaction ^ of social
or commercial fife , WUg ah indispensable duty ; it had eV £ r beett the rule of his own cotiduct i in respect to the ^ e , no rnental reserve , hdWever sfight , ought on any account to be allowed ; but to extend this to the usage of nterer fbrnia , by
which no one Was nvjtired , aftd which inight be considered as being siftiply official , was , in his mind , to the last degree visionary and absurd . He was indefatigable , therefore , \ a his endeavours to dissuade his friend from persevering in his resolution : he stated to him the
deprivations he must suffer ; the difficulties be would have to encounter - the objoquy to which he would subject himself ; and , at length , when he found him immoreable oti every consideration that respected his own sufferings , he changed the mode of attack , and asked him if he
had a right to subject Mrs . L . to so many inconveniences and hardships ? Here he found that his friend was not invulnera ble ; his final resolution , indeed , being the calm and deliberate result of many an anxious hour , he could not shake , but he could pour into the appointed cup a
tenfold portion of bitterness . I was at Catterick when Mr . L . returned thither , and never can I forget his altered looks and depressed countenance :- « -fiis very recollection seemed to be impaired , as he answered out anxious inquiries about fris health , as he feebly ascended the few steps leading frolm the garden to the
entrance : « how is all this" / he said , can one indispensable duty ever really to incompatible with another P '^ -We dfaf every thing in our power to sooth and iftim liii miud ; and in a very few day& he was enabled to recover hi& iiiSEial serenity . — rhis was in truth < &ishourt of darkness / but it happily soon passexf K atraV ^'~ Pp - I 5 tf—15 * " ' * * *
Mrs . Cappe ha ^ recorded , witli due Prake , the nobJe conduct of Ldrf Huntingdon , whose family had patronized Mr . Liuilsey , towards the € &ristiaa confessor : - - " \ umn not omit to merxtimx here
Untitled Article
the litoerafity atid rriendshifr ttf tSife tete Earl of Hutitirrgdon upon this t > tck& \ oh . R i ^ , I belie ^ e i well ktiowH tfi ^ ei revolted probably by the superstition and enthit siasm which mixed with the genuine piety of his otherwise excellent and exemplary mother , he had run into the opposite extreme , and had become a decided ; un- » believer . It is probable that he
considered the foreign appendages unhappily interwoven in the Established Creed , as a part of the religion of the gospeL r What became of' the tfniveffce / he # ik wont e ! &ultingly to inquire of Mr . Lindbef ^ * wfeien its great Grektoi * Kuh ^ lifeless upon a trfce ^ i » Jufea y ^ r i $ && act ccmcerned , my Lard , 4 ; o answer that question the foundatioa on winch it rests not
formujg any part of my cree 4 / --- , Biit ^ he bel ie f of it form ^ a part of th ^ cree ti of that ch ^ u / clx in which you weekly qftV ciate as a Dttuiister , ' was thV heart-piercing reply . TV ) t ^ ie lionpur ^ however , of Lord Huntingdon , when he heard df Mr .
Lindsey * s determination ttJ leave the Church , he wrote hrni a vei * y rrarrd&OTtoe Jetter , sowing , that howlrndififeretit noerer he might be rcs ^ ecfi ^ g Subjects' of naere theology , he greatly -htt&oufed- the inte- » grrty which could lead to such a sacrifice ;
and he offered Mr , L . to appoint him . his Librarian * with a haadsome salary , and an apartment entirely to hirnself , where fei § time for literary pursuits should be completely at Jus own disposal /'—Pp . 161 , 162 .
Chir biographer became an inhabitant of York in tHe year l _? 82 , and became the wife of the late Re ^ . Newcome Cappe in 178 ^ 1 Never , perftaps , was a matrimotriai ^ fohtiejcibn entered mtofrom purer or Bigher motives , and never' was conjugal union mbre sacretit or more happy . Tflie reader rfiufet consult the tolnitre fbr ( tie detdilaP of rfris
interesting eYerit , which Mrs . Cappe relates with all the ingetiuottsness aifd simplicity of a mind conscious ohly of Cfrristfkn sentftnents . flfr- CSap ^ vrotrfd UnSer any dtcufJasta ^ ceS mrp beetl rteS ^ eictrqlly reifcem&efcwi J > y iAb denorninutlott df wtiich le w ^ s sto brfght ettt br ^ istttiettt < BUt it ft efii ^ Lt
rjwirrg tb M ^; Crt ^^ ^ ffeettoifiifg industry that he has established a claim upon the veneration and gnati tude of posterity by his doq \ ient DW oour 8 es , and his learned and original critical J > i&serttttioris . His MemoiiBi
by the pen of Ms widow , ** oh © of the beat tributfeft o € Cottjugfel 1 Sffee « k > ii Wbkfk EnHtah tit ^ natur ^ contton ^ , Nkfflkr Mr tfettitWr iitot h& OWr-
Untitled Article
Revietti . ^ -Memoirs of the Life of the tate tifos . CettkdtHm 6 hpp& . $ &
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1823, page 239, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1783/page/47/
-