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after M * pwtiwtor fnienda had each selected ft txx * as a token erf nt * ei » - krance . He died unmanned . la his person be was bulky , rather than muscular ; Ms features were lai ^ e , aod strong !? marked ; ¦ and his
countenance , especially when any friend addressed him * - indicated at once the sense and benevolence 6 f the individual . His manner in private society , though plain , was manly and engaging ; he knew what was due to others , as well as to himself , and neither conceded nor demanded more . He enjoyed an equanimity of temper , and a flow of good spirits , which rendered him at all times social and cheerful .
" His character , in two particulars , was well expressed in his own words , that he was a Presbyterian in his religion , and a Republican in his politics . He thought with Milton , thai the trappings of a monarchy were
sufficient to set up an ordinary commonwealth ; a sentiment to which he was fond of recurring , and which was frequently the occasion of a good-humoured baiiter among his friends . But while his affection to the
Presbyterian Church was not of an exclusive or bigoted description , so his republican principles were not adopted from passion , or a reatleas iinpatfence of superiors , but on a conviction of
their truth and utility , and because he thought that this form of government was best adapted to the general welfare , and gave a freer scope to the exertions of merit . He entertained
a high veneration for the characters of Washington and Fox . He thought , truly , that the fame which the former had acquired , as the founder of the independence and freedom of America , was far greater than the laurels
whieh accompany the mere victories of a successful general . He revered the memory of the latter , as the universal friend of humanity , and the firm and fearless champion of British liberty .
y At the desire of $ ome friends , he sat for his picture to Wat bo n , about ten ytarai ago . it is in the posses * tora < rf * S T ard ! aw >; & **> »* & a * £° * *** g * wjig haa been Executed ftfttn ft , by * - Yimo ^ of London . ?* t .
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TSe Chqrgp yf Preemption TeCorMe < f vn Alh ^ nasmns * € t Quis fcuterit Gracchos de 8 editk > ne quertmtei ? " . ¦ . Sir ,
OF all the charges made against Umtarianisra by Orthodoxy , I know not any that comes wrth Ao ill a grace ^ as that capital one commonly preferred against her , of not approaching the divine oracles in a spirit #£ comparative humility . AthaBtasiams « tt is , I will not say , the creed of htitnaa
reason , but it is emphatically the creed of human reusou ?^ . In rat iocifi att&R ( such as it is ) did it originate , aad by ratiocination ( such as it is ) only can ife be maintained . Its patrons plead , that Ghri&eis called God in the Scriptures ^ that the titles and attributes of God
are repeatedly assigned to him ; that he had , in so many words , identified himself with the Supreme Being , and that St . Paul hesitates not to speak of him as icra , 0 ey . On the other haad they admit , ( how could they indeed deny ?) that the Son invariably pro *
claims his inferiority to the Father ; Ui » entire dependence upon him ; his al >* solute impotency vvkhout him ^ w&k but for him ; his iguorawiffle of the €€ day and hour of filial judgment his want of authority to dispose of the higher places in his kingdom , % &t *; and that St . Paul as categorically affirms that , at the consummation of
his mediatorial office , when he i » -to resign the kisafdom into the hoods oi his heaAenly Father , he Is to l > e sub > ject to him that did jput all things under him . that Ood ( the Father ) is
maty be all in ^ tfk Naw t&are b pazzle undoubtedly , biifc only to a reasoner . : A € f prostratioff-of tfee un ^ derstamti ^ ff" would tench , what ? that ,
as Dn Oarpenter says of the doctnued of Liberty and Necessity , they ate both true , though hie ' cannot ujAderatand how they should b& ? that the * S >» to aur emadatioft from < the ^ Wathset ^ lite
him Ood / trtill deriving hisiBoingrfiroia him , the creature of *^ A « iU > the rde * pendetit on hfo power , &ne vnih Aim only by ubliibited iOid ipompleiq ; sab ^ jection , the dele ^ ate ^ iiat . cMpartiierr ^ hfe jjLiHsdicAitm , « C : Ae > in ^ , wit 0 ^ to tenmrt of his l ^ irtaii , c ^ jniffljitiiiBfly of t ih&t he is vtifeaeeA testOTftal , p 4 w ^ erleaa beyowfciMittlil be iff jtea « H ^ ; impart , eimxm »^ bed as to know *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1823, page 583, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1789/page/23/
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