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TSenrick were accompanied by his admission of the tenets inculcated in the assembly ' s catechism : for although it does not appear that this celebrated formulary of belief was put into his hands , yet he had acquired from other quarter ^ . IjfiL unscriptural views of the dh ^|| p
character and government . On& of his favourite books in early life was Dr . Doddridge * * " Rise and progress of religion in the soul . *? This treatise , with many claims on approbation ^ justly incurs the accusation of describing religious excellence as a certain train and
state of the affections , rattaer than as a principle and habit . So powerful w ^ bs its influence on Mr ; Kenrick , that , agreeably tq a directjoQ and a torn * contained in it , fee drew up and subscribed > a solemn act of self-dedication to a
holy life . But , while lie gave this proof of the devout and serious temperby which &e . was alwayscharac terised , his feeliftgs-were overcast ky a gloom bordering on that despair which Dr . Priestley , ' likcr Atfise , as yre leapn from his
Memoirs , experienced in his youth , and which proceeded from the sttme or nearly the same cause . It was then the p ^^ neeof Mr . Kenrick to regafrd ' . ' SRwas the arbitrary sovereign of the human race , and
not as > ueir gracious Father ; . he was then perplexed as to the proper object of his worshi p ^ and had a constant fear of incHirripg the digpJe ^ ii F ^ of one of the
persons in the trinity by presenting bis addresses to another of them . At a subsequent period , he frequently confcrafciejl with gratitude the doubts anxjl ths despondehcy <* f his for * n # r dw $ g with the sejren-
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Memoirs tifthe late Mev . Timothy Kenrfek . S §
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ity and joy arising from his belief in the pure religion of the gospel . > it reflects distinguished honour on the gentlemen who superintended jii succession tbe&cademy &t Da ^ entry , that they did tiJt impose restraints on freedom 6 i inquiry , but encoui ^ ged and assisted their pupils in tfik exgrcisr ^ of p * iva £ e judgment , whteh ^ hey Represented in the light of a duty ^; a ^ wel l as of a privilege . ' r l he seitiinary over "which they presided had hence a fair title to the
distinction of a Protestant seminary ; and Mr . Kenrick ' s diligent atten - dance on the theological lectures of the house , concurred with his talents and dispositions in enabling
him to form some opinion for himself upon points of religious controversy From the best information which can be obtained if appears probable , that at tlii time of his removal to Exeter his
views of the trinity were those that had been taken by Dr . 3 . Clarke , and that his creGd in respect to other articles now approached more nearly to the doctrines of-Arminius than to those of Calvin
A different and better method of studying theology led , as was natural , . to a different result / Thfe text-book employed by the divinity-tutors at D ^ ventry was Dod - dridg ^' s Lectures , the arrangement of which is singularly tin * , favourable to the impartial
discussion of controverted opinions and to the acquisition of religions truth . Without the possibrtity of containing the substance of nrfau thematical demonstration , they preisent , like the lectures of Mr . Jennings * , from which they alfe ^ in part taken , the empty form of
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? The Rev . John Jennings , oMIiiicWic ^ tiilfor ^ f . iDoddridge ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1808, page 59, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2389/page/3/
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