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Our poet however proceeds to Celebrate the lady as " Too good for those , with whom she sojourn d here ; , and after uttering the unavailing desire that he had been honoured
to restore this wandering sheep to the right fold , he is so far assisted by chanty ( like Watts in the case of Locke ) to find out his friend in heaven , that he solaces himself -with the reflection , how she
" Now the true church in full communion owns , Nor starta at bishop-angels on their v thrones . All this is amusing , but the Jbard has not spared an unworthy
insinuation against that voluntary remuneration of their preachers , in which non-conformists justly glory . He declares rather prosaically that , in the case of this lady ,
The meeting never robb'd the countinghouse . I cannot however allow myself to leave this high-church zealot entirely in disgrace with your non-Conformist readers , Should
his bigotry have disgusted , his self-denying ^ iu ce rjty may claim their approbation . * Jf Samuel Wesley lived 1 with and co ' mpli-. mented the tory minister Harley mented the tory minister liariey
and the Jacobite prelate Alterbury , in their prosperity , ' lie equally attached himself to their declining fortunes , especially to those of the latter , though to the litter ruin of his own hopes of preferment . He thus exemplified the rare virtue which he attributes
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to a lady , who had accompanied the Stuart family to St . Germain ' s ^ and of whom he says that , ** She falls uncourtly , with the falling court . ** " ¦ *
If I have offered any hints whj
founders of sects as the VVesley s * must always be considered , J shall have attained my purpose , Ypur ? s , J . T . RUTT .
P . IS , I have ^ seen the last Gent . Mag . ( p . 28 S . ) a letter from Bath containing some notices pf tfre Rev . D . \ Vatson , whose letters I quoted in your Repository . ( P . 9 . ) He appears to have been early patronized by the celebrated author of the
Analogy , and . to have felt the obligations of cleripal residence long before tbp truant-clergy werp frightened home to their benefices bytbat severe censor of the church .
a qui tarn prosecution . He died in a very advanced age at Bath . On his monument , in the Abbey church there , is the following inscription from the pep oi his friend Dr . Zouch * . * " JJear this place are deposited the
remains ' of' the Rev . Daniel Watson , M , A . who died oh the 23 d day of Ja- » nuary , i 8 & 4 >' aged ^ 5 years . His merit ? alone recomtnen 4 e 4 him to the favour and patronage of Dr . Joseph Butler , Bishop of Durham , ' who presented him to the vicarage of L . ekc in the county of York , which he vacated in 1767 , upon his appointment by the Crown to that ' of Middleton Syes , in
• Prebendary of Durham , well known as the Editor of Walton ' s Lives , and who has been lately celebrated for a very rare instance of a sincere and obstinate nolo cphcopari . The disinterestedness of Dr . Z . may have been most exemplary , yet sufficient prudential reasons may he assigned why a very elderly clergyman , above the silly vanity of having a mitre on his tomb , might decline to exchange one of Durham ' s golden prebends for a bishopric , not one of the m « st lucrative .
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Further Particulars of the Rty . D . Watsqn . 37 §
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1808, page 375, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2394/page/23/
