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iod ^ gojsi ^ ofv ^ 4 ct ^ £ f ¥ ^ 4 him , soon afterwards , t 6 resrggr the offices of divinity tutor and superintendant of the family . On the election ^ F tire Rev . Thomas Belsham to ° fnese stations , Mr . Ken ri ek continued Jiis services , first a& classical and next &s mathematical tutor ; and by his * punctuality , zeal , and accuracy , united with great firmness of pur ^ pose and a mild and happy msiriW
ner of reproof , he gained in an un * . common degree die attachment w his pupils . Having the stated exercise of his profession , however , still in vie ^> : he Tfwa $ soon called to another sphereof duty .
The Rev . Micaijah Towgooda name ever dear , to the cause of Christian piety and virtue and of religious freedom—had retired in 17 S 2 from the co-pastorship of the two united cpngregations of TDissenters in Exeter , after the
labours of more than sixty years in the ministry of the gospel . This vacancy Mrl Kenrick was invited to fill ; and his relation to the societies who had made a choice thus ^ honourable to their ' discernment
Commenced with the beginning of 1784 . Jn the sumnier of the following year he was ordained at Exeter * Upon t ^ js occasion he delivered a statement of his religious ltelfef v& ? ich at that time was
far from being directly opposed to the recqived opinions . One subject certainl y which he afterwards viewed in ; a different light , was the propriety of - ordination ilkelf , as it is usually observed
among Dissenters . Not that- be disapproved of a religious service | n order to Jn trod lice the connection between a - pastor and his Hock : for in such a service he jras himself to h <* ye engaged in the
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autiinin o / 1804 , , h % d ^ oj his death intervened . He was p £ rsuaded , nowever , that unscriptural sentiments of the positive institutions of the gostfel , are
con-| siderably promoted by the custom ' 4 > f ministers not being permitted ^ fc ^ t ebrate baptism and the Lords Stepper previoubiy to the ceremony denominated ordination . When he quitted the academy , Mr . Kenrick was so far from ceasing to be a student , that , much as his proficiency surpassed his years , he still applied himself with extra - ordinary diligence to the acquisition of knowledge as well as to die communication of it , and ^
specially to that of theological knowledge . Much of his time was employed in preparing ^ iiis compositions for the pulpit ; much In discharging the less public duties of the pastoral " rt ? lation ; aha it xsas
m&& his object to tiualrfy himsdf in * a greater degree for two branched of ihihisfterial setvicfe ^ which , ? iti general , are either hot cultivated
at all ; or not ctiltivatftd with the zeal , judgment , and ^ perseverance which they well dekerve ; the exposition of the sdri ^ turts and- the ^ ligiotis Instruction of -the young . He now ent ^ recLoh a more
critrcal exaibiimtioit ^ HPae New Testament in the brigirffll lariguagefhvith only the occasional helifef some of the most judicious and approved commentators . To this direction
of his Studies werfe owing the expository lectures on the historical books of the ClVrfetiain covenant which he delivered more than oiice tQ his congregation ; and to this
h& was indebted ^ under Providence , for a happy changl in his sentiments of Christian doctrine . Some oi ^ ihe first religious impressions on the mind of Mh
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58 Memoirs offttc late Rev * Timothy Htnrick .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1808, page 58, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2389/page/2/
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