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The publications of our author after he had attained the mitre , were not numerous . In 1777 » appeared his sermon preached before the Lords on a fast-day , during the American war , and the same year a Charge to the Clergy
of his dioceses , at his primary visitation . This Charge attracted some notice , on account of a panegyric , which it contained on the established "ritual , " its defects , if there are any , being in the Bishop ' s judgment , " purely
imaginary or certainly unimportant . " A recommendation is subjoined "to submit all deliberations of this sort to the wisdom of the church itself /* This recommendation ,, appeared
unsatisfactory to " a country clergyman" who presently published " Remarks' * on this Charge , and was likely enough to differ with the Bishop , for he writes in the character of one of the petition * ing clergy * .
In 1781 , Bishop Hurd was advanced to the See of Worcester , and not long after had an opportunity of refusing the offer of a translation to Canterbury f . Nor is it surprising that our prelate with his literary habits should prefer the opulent leisure which the See of Worcester alForded to those ceremonious attentions on a
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court which custom has annexed to the splendour of the primacy J . He now chiefly resided at the Episcopal palace , in the sequestered village of Hartlebury , where he has left a noble library for the use of his successors ,
containing a great part of the libraries of Pope and Warburton , with a large collection formed during several years by his own taste and judgment ||*
In 1783 , our prelate had been appointed " Clerk of the Closet , " and in 17 $ 6 , preached before the Lords on January 30 , —treating the trite subject of ' * KingCharles ' s
Martyrdom / ' not illiberally § . This was the last public service which the bishop performed , and
from this time he appears to have confined himself to his literary occupations and the duties of his diocese * In 1788 , he published , in 7 vois . 4 to . an edition of the
Wo * ks of Warburton-. which drew upon him as we have had occasion to notice , the severe animadversion of an anonymous but scarcely an unknown scholar and divine . The Editor of Warburtoii had excluded from his works several juvenile translations in verse and
prose . These the Editor of u Tracts , " &c . thought worthy of republication , and seized the
Athanasians ; who will take upon him to say , that these men were not equal to each other , in probity and scriptural knowledge . "—Watson ' sTheol . Tracts , vol . 6 , Catal : on " Letter " , on the Logos . Bishops Hurd and Watson wirh Bishop Law , who altered the last edition of his Theory , that he might leave nothing inconsistent with what is called Socinianism , are cotemporary evidences of the small success with which church and state ha * e been employed for aged , in preventing 4 i diversity of opinions ** and procuring consent touching true religion . ' * * M . Rev . lvii . 411 , 41 a . t Nicholls ' s Leicestershire , iiu 1073 , Mr . N . mention * his " receiving this fact from the Bishop himself , " t Besides a very frequent attendance on royal Levees , a panegyrical oration is expected from the primate on every roya * birth-day . Thus extremes meet , and this prince among ecclesiastics ; shares his task with that humble manufacturer of ° < Jes , jche Laureat . . Whose annual pension , brings forth annual praise . ( J Nicholas JLcicesUTsiurejf Hi . 1073 . § Sec M . Rev .
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Memoir of the late Hick * Hurd < , IX DkJ £ jk of Worcester . 531
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1808, page 531, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2397/page/7/
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