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u parish Church of Wake-. fleld" where Mr . Rogers delivered these Lectures is , it appears , free on a Sunday Even , ing , whpn the poor who worship in the u aisles' * in the preceding part of the day are admitted into the " pews . " This generosity on the part of the pew-holdcrs is truly Christian : we cannot help wishing that the subjects chosen
for the Lectures bespoTce an equal deference to the Christian spirif , and that they were taken less from the prayer book and more from the Bible . It is the gospel , according to the evangelists , not the gospel according to the compilers of the English Liturgy , which u the common people ' have in every age * ' heard gladly . "
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Dr . Watts . 431
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Art . IT . —Mejuoirs of the Life and Writings of Isaac Wtttts % I ) . I ) , with extracts from his Correspondence , pp . 67 . 8 vo . Portrait . Qs . ' 6 d * Williams and Smith .
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These memoirs were drawn wp with the view of being prefixed to a new edition of all the Doctor ' s practical pieces , but are sold separately . The author is anonymous , who' says in his preface , that he u has emlea-Toured to comprehend all the facts in Gibbons and subsequent biographers , and to give a faithful delineation of the author and the man . " This he has done in a respectable manner , and has interspersed such remarks , in his review of the Doctor ' s character and works , as discover good sense , and a considerable , degree of liberality . He appears to be more attached to the Calvinistical system than the Doctor was , but expresses himself concerning the points in which he supposes the Doctor to have deviated from it , with a degree of candour which does him honour , and which among the \ Vriter ' s own party is not often to be met with . He labours indeed to place Dr . Watts in as favourable a light as possible , ai ) d will not allow him to We had " any thing of the
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character of a heretic about him , ' * ( p . 43 . ) even in reference to hit greatest deviation from strict orthodoxy on the subject of the trinity , though on this point he cannot even in the opinion of the Doctor ' s Calvinistic admirers , eutirely exculpate him . Into this subject he has en * tered in fact more largely than , was necessary or proper , in so short a piece of biography , having * devoted near 20 pages out of 67 , to a review of the Doctor ' s writings on the trinity . And many will think with us , that he has exceeded his proper province in stating his objections to the Doctor s peculiar sentiments on this subject . Of this he himself seems to be aware , for he says , p . 39 , u It is certainly no part of the biographer ' s office to defend or refute the peculiar tenets of tho subject of his memoir ; yet as in writing the life of a general or a statesman , it is expected that some attention should be paid to his schemes and plans for the public good , so I conceive in th # life of ? a author , an impar *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1807, page 431, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2383/page/35/
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