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    without all doubt these would never have been in the number . This at least would surely be the result , if in any particular instance it were given to us to rule the destinies of men according to our wishes ;—and yet when we consider the matter fairly , and endeavour to take those general views which we can contemplate with the requisite calmness , and which are not too extensive even for our limited understandings , there are reasons which may occur

    to our own thoughts sufficient to convince us that the general rule , in its immediate application so mysterious , is on the whole dictated by infinite wisdom and kindness , and adapted to work out much greater good . The immediate effects upon survivors of the removal from earth of one so well prepared for Heaven may often prove highly beneficial , softening their tempers by the tenderest sympathies , and deeply impressing their minds by a practical instance of the sanctifying power of a Christian ' s faith and hope .

    Of the young ministers who have been successively called away from stations of eminence and usefulness , where they were beginning to devote valuable acquirements and promising talents , under the guidance of a pure and Christian spirit , to the service of their master in the religious instruction of their fellow-disci pies ,

    and who have thus forcibly and painfully brought to our minds such reflections as have now been suggested , there are few to whom they have been more appropriate than the amiable author of the posthumous volume now before us . Called away from earthly duties and earthly hopes , at the early age of twenty-seven ^ while there remained in his heart and affections the warmth and freshness

    characteristic of youth , no one who knew him would fail to perceive that for him the discipline of this world had thus far done its work . There was in him that habitual influence of religious principles and feelings which uniformly governed his conduct and his deportment in society , and had already become , as it were , a

    part of his nature , insomuch , that without leading to anything repulsive or austere , they rendered it impossible that his presence should not always be felt to be that of a religious man . To the important objects suggested by this predominant view of his destination and duties in this world , the exercise of his intellectual

    attainments was ever conscientiously devoted ; and these were of no ordinary kind . For both his public appearances , and his conversation , whenever he could be induced so far to lay aside an habitual reserve , as to enter freely upon topics which called the powers of His mind into full exercise , abundantly showed that he had availed himself to their full extent of all the opportunities he

    had enjoyed for acquiring those mental accomplishments which could be rendered subservient to his primary pursuit . Nor was there any appearance of inadequate preparation in these respects . Indeed , to those who were frequent hearers of Mr . Hincks in the pulpit , or much in his society in private , there was , perhaps , no quality of his mind more remarkable than that maturity , both of

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    Hinckj * Sermons * , 69 &

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1832, page 695, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1822/page/45/