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    of Litch field and Coventry ; wherein .-the- importance of the prophecies of ihe New Testament krid the nature of the grand apostacy predicted in them are particularly and impartially

    consid ^ tfed . " The Letter-writer , was of , the same college with the Bishop , and though his junior by several years , probably knew him at ahe university . Among the

    inotives for this address , are " the sincere esteem early contracted for his lordship ' s elegant manners and amiable disposition , together with a veneration for his great learning and eminent abilities */'

    Mr . Evanson contends , that t % the characters of the predicted apostacy , should be sought for ia the doctrines of a church , not in the local situation of its pri - Jtiate /' - He then enters upon an able examination of the creeds

    professed , and the authority assumed by the reformed churches which the civil power has erected to . shew that there are " scarce any circumstances in the prophecies of the New Testament which

    are in reality more peculiarly applicable to the Roman , than to all the established churches in Europe . " As to " the fatal tree of Antichristian superstition" he remarks that u the reforming

    princes diligently lopped off those boughs which most incommoded them , but the root , the trunk .

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    and main branches they left feir and flourishing , and even engaged themselves still to protect the same baneful tree in that state to which , they had contracted it . f .. " Those who have : observed the ¦ cc prudent caution

    ^ " , as Mr . Evansou expresses . it , generally maintained by dignitaries of the church , will easily believe that no reply was given to this letter . It was indeed merely , though ? respectfully noticed a few months

    afterwards J , on the authors resigning into the Bishop ' s , hands as his diocesan , those preferments of which he could no longer consistently perform the duties , unlike

    some later reformers , who satisfy themselves to partake the emoluments of a church , whose . faith they d ^ em Antichristian , or complain of persecution , should they be forced to abandon them .

    In 1774 , Dr . Hurd had become Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry , a preferment to which he is said to have been recommended by Lord Mansfield , who after the premature ' || death of the honourable Charles Yorke , was

    his principal court-patron . The Heads of Emanuel College justly regarding this honour paid to her distinguished son , com pi i men ted the Bishop in a Latin address , affectionately recollecting his residence among them , and taking due , care also to compliment " bur

    * " A Letter , " &c 1777 . PP-4 and x %% . f Id . pp . 13 , 16 , a 8 . \ See jyir . Evanson ' s Life . M * Repos . i . 6 . I ] The close of this gentleman ' s life , was very affecting . He was made JLord Chancellor , January 17 , 177 Q , created Sk Peer the next day , and died two days after . See An . Reg . xiii . 181 and 1 S 6 . He is there said to have " suddenly departed this life by the rupture of a vessel inwardly . * ' His sudden . death has how ^ - ever , been generally attributed to the reproof he received from his brother , the late Lord Harjdwricke , on his having ventured to succeed Lord Camden , who had been displaced for maintaining opinions too favourable to the liberty of the subject . Mr- C . Yorfce , was one of the Sons of the famous Lord Hardwicfcc , who had been Chancellor more than twenty years .

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    528 memoir of the late Rick . Hurdy D . JD . Bp . of Worcester

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1808, page 528, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2397/page/4/