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good prince ' - ; wj ^ h ywhpru c Vnothing but d ser £ pr $ va , ils" in the bestow men t jof ; royal favours ! The Bishop ^ ddressed in Latin , , a suitable - reply *• , and has left by his will a more / substantial
testimony of regard to I > is college by a , liberal . beqeffrcrion designed to promote the objects of that Institution f >; ..-, . ¦ -: , ' The royal Favour continued to attend our diviffe . In Ijj 6 y he
was appointed preceptor to the Prince of Wales , and the yqiang secular Bishop of Osnabu ^ gh , * KW Duke * of York . For such art office ,, -Bishop- HurdV attain in e . nts
had eminently ; qualified him , nor did th-e jno < Jern notions of episcopal obligation forbid him to reconcile the necessary attendance on a court , with the claims of an extensive diocese on his spiritual direction . His friend Mason , in
n Sonnett prefixed to a new edition of Caractacus , celebrates this appointment , reminding theBish * op of the , ti | ne ¦ When in low Thurcaston ' s sequestered bower /' He praised the strain , because he loved the friend .
Nor does it appear that any con * temporary divine , ever thought of . censuring engagements which comprehen 4 duties , seemingly in ~ compatible . There was once indeed a prelate of the church of
England , whose conduct in similar ^ circumstances was singularly scrupulous . We refer to Burnett , who when the education of the Duke of Gloucester , the presumptive heir to the crown , was press -
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ed upon him by King . William , endeavoured U > . resign his bishoprvick . That being refused , he would accept the olijce . of preceptor , only on the condition qf his - , pupil ' s residing at Windsor , which was in his diocese and his having - a sufficient time allowed
him , to inspect ^ the other parts of it J .: Buf B urnet £ ; -. vwas & , yara ax / is among i ^ odern plates , &nd h % s ,, we believe ^ , b ; jen even called a ,, presbyterian bishop * , v .
. Soon aftethis p . pp oUitment . io the office of preceptor , JJishop Hurd resigned . the pre ^ c-terjiliip at LineolnVInn ., At ^ the request
of the Benchers ^ he published in 1 ? 775 ^ c . three volumes "of serrnons delivered in their-cli a pel * These have been admired * as elegant compositions , siich as might have been , expected from the pen
of their author . Many of the sermons are on subjects of Christian morajity . ^ The divinity is truly orthodox . Dr . Hurd brings into the pulpit , -what many grave churchmen have been content to
leave behind them in the desk , ^ a ir God the Son" as one of , the objects of Christian worshi p * The atonement is held up to ardmira * -
lion , as a doctrine " awfully stupendous—at which reason stands aghast , and faith herself is half confounded . " The reformation
of the church of England , accord * ing to her grateful and zealous advocate , was stopped just sit the exact point of Christian purity , and succeeded far belter than in CL the case * of the foreign Protestant churches , " because it hi was *
* Nichols e s Leicestershire . Fol . iii . 1072 . t The Bishop has bequeathed aooafc . stock in the 4 per Cents Consuls , one half foj : the augmentation of the Maate ^ hip , and the other half to increase the stipends © f the four Senior Fellows . » .. i See Burnett's Life by his Son , annexed to the " History , " * Fol . ii , 718 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1808, page 529, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2397/page/5/
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