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venerable for ^ yi $ r £ / $ iift MWW ^ j&i mableaud higlilyesW ^ med on acc&utt * f the virtues With mU&-fev 1 tf l ^^ pt ' lie has adorned his profession , read a portion of St . PauVs sec ^ ffd > B | lMjte % Timothy , and offered up tin earnest and truly Christian prayer for the divine
blessing upon the connexion which had been formed . The gentleman appointed to represent the congregation , Robert Cooper , Esq ., ( grandson to the second minister of the chapel , whose services commenced here so long since as the year 1744 , ) then delivered to the elected minister an
address , full of affectionate observation , on the interesting relation in which a congregation and their minister stand to each other , united wltii a manly sense of the duties which the latter is called upon
to perform , and a just boldness in demanding from him attention and fidelity . This address directly disclaimed all right of interference on the part of one congregation with another , or on the part of a body of ecclesiastics claiming prjestry usurpation over the consciences of men ; it included a reference to the liberal and
enlightened principles on which Christian worship had within those walls been conducted for nearly a century , * and it concluded with a devout anticipation of the spiritual blessings which the connexion they met to celebrate might be hoped to produce . Mr . Marion , in his reply , acknowledged tjiat he had no intention to
attetnpt making any deep impression on ^ he mincj a of the audience in favour of the truths and duties of religion . This , in the present service , devolved oi ^ far abler aftd more experienced persons . But Jie wjjlingly expressed the joy which such a . n , opportunity of Christian intercourse furnished , an , d his hope that by such a direct anneal to the blessing of
fteayen ,, an < J the ptyipatipns of C ** ris-^ ap \ t $ , something might be done Iq mitigate the ^ rsftnegs pf pensu rp , an < J enUfatlle tjie Jpve pf truth . He acknowledged , that from an early period of his life he had received an impression in favour of such a service from a circumstance related by the biographer of the late eminent and revered Timothy Kenrick , of Exeter , whose catechumen , fo »
* The date which is inscribed on the front of the chapel , is A . D . 1736 , whe « the congregation removed with their able pastor , jyir . Benjamin Atills , from what had )> eon called the Dijtch titiurch , and from that time it appears tjiaj ^ the worsfoty of . the chapel has always been Unitarian .
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ii ^ hort ' time , lie ftetA tfce honour to t » p , that had that distinguished mfoisteFs Hie ik&a frotofogedi * otriectittg us htfdid ^ W fcWIim ^ ffh » &m tfisinwtiting itself 1 it ^ r ^« M ^ i > f < , ' fj ^ feCc ^ ett'tohart engagedMw ^ ren A service «« the p ? e « eHt While he felt deeply attached to r ^ igionH truth , and feai devoted ' hfoftseW * to its
interests , he wished dwt « ie $ y to avow an equal attachment to Christian ¦; « charity , which he hoped to eherish as bis Hfe s blood . A confession Of faith , especially after what had fallen from Ml ' . Cooper , he did not now intend to make . Such confession , he believed , he had long since made , from the first time that he participated hi the holy communion ; and also in the various ways which
presented themselves to one who had already , for several years , laboured in the Christian ministry . He ventured to draw the outline of objects which he proposed to himself in the discharge of hia crifice : To conduct with simplicity a » d sen ©» sriess the devotional services , to attempt to convey a short , yet perspicuous expositlbn of the Holy Scripture , to strive * to enforce and Inculcate the moral and
religious duties of our common faith , to visit the sick and poor , and keep up an acquaintance with the people of his < flock —and in particular , as that on which he would lay a chief stress , to furnish the minds of the younger members of th © congregation with such methodical ,
gradual , and instructive , information , as might enable them to attain to a satisfactory conviction on the great truths of religion ., because this personal conviction he believed to lie at the basis of all subsequent improvement in virtue and piety . At the conclusion of this address from
the congregation , and reply ft&iri the minister , Mr . Holden re-ascended the pulpit , and , introducing his remavk » with the words of Peter , ( 2 Epist . i . 13 , 14 , ) < ' 1 think it meet , as long as 1 am iu tfoh tabernacle , to s ^ ir you up by putting you iu remembrance , knowing that shortly 1 must put pff this my tabernacle , even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed
me , " delivered a series of admirably pious and affectionate exfyostatiom , exceedingly suitable to hi& own long experience and pastoral fidelity , * and well calculated to excite to diligence and ehcuttispection in the minister , and to zealous co-operation in the people oi his charge . Mr . Holden woiilfl ext ^ udtthc use Ail ness of hie practical address M he would consent to transmit it iu au t— : —L ^_ : —; jj ¦ * — . u . mj UJnni •¦ ¦ See Moii . Renos ., O . 8 ., VolvKVIf . p . 70 D .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1827, page 766, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1801/page/54/
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