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    concession , that it might incur the censure of vanity to refer to them , did it not reflect honour on Dr . Sturges ' s liberality ; which was heightened by this circumstance , that the publications sent for his acceptance , in general militated with his views and sentiments on

    theological points . The author of the " Letters" had once an opportunity to pay his respects in person , to Dr . Sturgcs , at AU verstoke , and was received by him with very friendly and cordial politeness , accompanied with invitations to dine with him ; which

    circumstances obliged me to decline . In connexion wjth this view of Dr . Sturges ' s candid spirit I am tempted to quote a passage , on

    religious discussions , in his 4 C Reflections on the Principles and Institutions of Popery , as expressive of the excellent trait in his character , which it was the

    design of this communication to exhibit . " Discussions of Religious Disputes , " says the doctor , € t are generally not very edifying , either as coming from the press , or delivered in places of public

    worship ; and they are seldom free from a degree of warmth and acrimony , which do more harm by the breach of charity , than good by the investigation of what either party supposes to be truth . For such discussions must very much consist of constant censure on the

    adverse party ; and I do not envy the man who takes pleasure in finding fault . It is always painful to me to represent human nature under her worst aspect /* P . iii . 4 to ed .

    Dr . Sturges ' s Strictures on the Letters , were accompanied with a present of a tract , not liotiroed in your Obituary ; en-

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    £ 36 Particulars of the late Rev . Dr . Sturges , hyDr . Toulmiii

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    titled "A Letter to a Bishops occasioned by the late Petition to Parliament , for Relief in the Matter of Subscription . The Se * cond Edition corrected . With a Postscript containing some Consi * derations on Tests , 1773 . "

    In 1802 , Dr . Sturges published u Thoughts on the , Residence of the Clergy , and on the Provisions of the Statutes of the Twenty First Year of Henry VIII . c . 13 . " It is well observed in the

    Obituary of the Athenaeum for Nov . 1807 , that " his solicitude for the credit and benefit of the clergy so forcibly expressed , " in this tract , * evince him to have bee t * sincerely interested in their welfare and comfort /*

    Dr . Sturges was nephew t . t Bishop Lowth , by his mother , a daughter of the Rev . William Lowth , Prebendary of Winchester , and the well known and learned Commentator on the Prophets ; and the author of other valuable

    theological writings . The preceding supplement to your Obituary , of the learned Dr . Sturges will , it is hoped , be ; acceptable to your readers , and be regarded as an act of justice to an amiable and distinguished character , while it holds up to

    nnication and esteem in the ex » ample of the Doctor , who was , it is to be considered , the person attacked by the u Letters / ' a pleasing instance of that suavity of manners and generosity of retaliation , which too seldom have occurred among polemical writers . The author of the " Letters , " by controverting the principles and arguments of Dr . Sturges gained a very respectable and attentive literary friend , I am , Sir , your ' s , &c # JOSWUA YOULMIfy

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1808, page 236, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2392/page/8/