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who would be able to call thp public a ttention to a subject of very great importance , by the strength of their appeal , and the authority of their names . JOHN MORELL-
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congregation to whom he ministered . I have written the above , hoping that , if it shall be judged to be useful ^ some neighbouring minister or friend may give a more particular , account of th £ unostentatious and retired , but I would persuade myself useful , life of one who has never ceased to have a place in my esteem and affection . Lu HOLDEN .
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Mr * Holden on the Death of Mr . Cornish . 635
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Tenterden * Sir , November 3 , 18 £ 3 . OBSERVE in your obituary list , I ( p . 607 , ) the name of my beloved friend and fellow-student of the same class , at Hoxton College , Mr . J . Cornish ; and hope for a more particular account of his life and ministry . He was much respected by the neighbouring ministers , and was upon very friendly terms with the late Dr , TouU
rnin . Whilst at College he published a small tract , entitled " A Serious and Earnest Address to Protestant Dissenters of all Denominations , " which soon passed to a second edition , and also a very brief " History of the Puritans" of the same size . We carried
on an epistolary correspondence to the last , with a full flow of cordial affection , in which time and long separation caused no abatement . In one of his last he writes , " I heartily thank you for yours of May 23 . Few
ministers have continued so long with the same society as you and I . I rejoice that your society flourishes ; mine , as to numbers , is much the same . " In another part he observes , " Most of our fellow-academics are gone before 5
us ; but our venerable resident tutor , ' referring to Dr . Rees , " brings forth fruit in old age . " In this he well knew that with hini I should most cordially rejoice . One circumstance also I had from his own pen , which was highly to his honour . From the fluctuations in
trade during the American war , his father was a sufferer in his circumstances ; and at length called his creditors together , and honestly divided his remaining property among them . Many years after this , when my beloved friend , by the profits of a school ,
had it in his power to do it , he called the above creditors together , and paid them up to twenty shilling's in the pound . Providence still continued to bless him , and he informed me , by * Utter , not long since received , that he had every comfort which this life could afford him , still beloved by the
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Plymouth , Sir , November 2 , 1823 ; IN the Course of Lectures on Nonconformity , which are now in the hands of the public in most of the
counties of England , I have said that " with regard to the archbishops and bishops of the Church of England ^ they can be regarded in no other ^ light than as ecclesiastical attorneys ,, employed to do the work of the Church , " ( p . 99 , ) which , " in point of fact , is one of the many branches of the estate of the realm , over which the king presides as head . " Pp . 87 * 158 , 19 1 . It would , I now think , have been
more correct to have said , that theyare ecclesiastical magistrates , to whom the people are directed to look up * among other duties for a licence to * open a place of worship , in the same manner as others apply to the civiL magistrate for a licence to open a * tobacco or a gin shop .
I also feel some regret at a passage in p . 145 . " Consecrated water to sprinkle the living , which is employed in the Catholic ceremonies , is not in use in the Protestant Church : but * in what does this rite , so much laughed at by Church-of-England men ,,
differ from the consecrated buildings without which they are not permitted to offer a public prayer , or the conse * - crated ground in which they must bury their dead ? " I had recently read of the consecration of a church by
Archbishop Laud , and of all the mummery practised by that zealot upon the occasion - I y and , in common believe with the public at large , as welJL Churchmen as Dissenters , I had supposed that some superstitious rites were observed in the present day in what is called the consecration of
churches . I have since learned that I was under a . mistake , and that the good sons of the church in my immediate neighbourhood found themselves
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1823, page 635, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1790/page/19/
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