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    ordinary pleasures of the world , it contributed so to elevate and purify his mind , as to enable him to view all objects through a clear atmosphere , and to look down upon " all the kingdoms of the world , " and judge of the true «* glory of them /' It was thus , and in this tone , that he

    adoptecTThose views of scriptural truth which , however commonly denounced by the leaders of public opinion , have seemed just to some of the wisest and best of the human race , and which , in our own country , have been endeared to many by the approbation of a Locke , a Lardner , a Milton , a Newcome . and a Law .

    ¦ ' Of Unitarians , as a sect , Captain Hey wood knew little or nothing . But in the latter part of his life , as some of his friends , he was led to attend the chapel in York Street , St . James ' s Square ; and entirely approving the service , he became a Tegakt ^ attendai 3 t ,-a ^ ar' -as-- )) -is-l > eait ] i would permit , on public Unitarian

    worship in that place . This continued for about two years , and was the origin of an intercourse between the subject and author of this memoir , most highly valued by the laN ter , who little knew the deep interest attached to Captain Hey wood ' s character and history , until he became a witness of the sufferings which preceded his removal from this scene .

    Such was the independence , of Captain Hey Wood's niihd , that lie shrunk to the last from connecting himself closely with the Unitarians as a body , dreading lest it should bring with it any compromise of his own principles , and hating the very name of sect or party . Yet in private society he approved the views , he sympathized in the feelings of the elder Unitarian Dissenters , whom he occa ~ .

    sionally met ; and he entertained a sincere respect for their characters . That he Was a Unitarian , was to many of his frieyids a subject of surprise , and perhaps of pain , but not many could estimate the solidity of

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    that knowledge upon which his convictions were based , or the care of that inquiry by which his pure and simple structure of faith had been raised . ' Captain Hey wood often mentioned that the first works which he met ' with , containing just views , as they

    appeared to him , on the subject of religion and human duty , were those of Dr . Cogan . The theological disquisitions of this author , on the Jewish dispensation , the paternal character of God , the peculiar blessings and characteristic evidences of Christianity , and his Ethical Questions , abound in valuable reflections , which harmonized with the rational mind

    and the benevolent feelings of this excellent man . He found in most of the popular works upon religion much which he could not approve , and which appeared fallacious and pernicious . Captain Hey wood attrir buted so much beneficial influence to the works of tin ' s author , that he distributed many copies amongst his private friends .

    ' He was indebted to a clergyman of the Church of England for his first acquaintance with another author—Dr . Channing , of Americaof whose writings he became a devoted reader and ardent admirer .

    He was accustomed to speak with the greatest delight of the pleasure he experienced in the enlarged views , the exalted piety , the animating coii-r ceptions of human dignity and duty , which pervade the eloquent writings of this popular American divine . The literature of America in general suited his taste . It ia true , he knew it chiefly from its most favourable

    specimens , hut in these he perceived good sense prevailing , a disposition to bripg every opinion to the test of truth , without that party spirit which mingles so largely in the current literature of our own country , and tinges our popular reviews with so much unfairness and misrepresentation . Nor was he slow to do justice to the merit of many English Uai-

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    UNITAIUAN CHttCJNICLE . 245

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1832, page 245, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1825/page/5/