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occasion to draw-asfiin into' notice the forgotten iC Tracts by a Warburt « nmn" which ; we have sufiic i e 1111 v d es c ri bed . The Preface and Dedication are compositions such asmi ^ ht foe expected from the taste " and trutfitio n of tHe supposed
editor . The hostility to ' 'Bishop Hurd , which they so classically express in various forms ¦ of ' sarcasm , can be attributed only to some deep-felt' injury : On this subject we have no information , for we are persuaded that the magnanimity of the learned editor could not have allowed him so
severely to retaliate merely on the Bishop ' s cc rooted antipathy—to long vernacular Sermons from Dr . Parr * . " Jn 1 7 £ H > appeared the long Expected Life of Warburton ,. designed to be prefixed as a discourse * bv wav of ore face to his courseby way of preface to his
, works . This was the last of our prelate ' s I itenwry labours which fiad extended through nearly half a century . He appears to have passed the remainder of his life in an almost uninterrupted seclusion from the busy world . He
died at Hartlebury Castle , May 28 , 1 808 , in the 88 th j * oar of his age and was privately interred / by liia own direction , in the church yard of that village . There is no account of any papers left by the Bishop ior publication , except a collection of letters to and from
eminent persons of his acquaintance , many of which are referred to in the Life of , Wai burton . It is much to be regretted that this elegant and interesting piece of biography should hitherto have been confined to the pur-
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chaser * of the Works ,-of which only 250 copies were printed . r < publication of the . discourse would not only gratify curiosity respecting Warburton , but dis . cover the ii ^ ht in which our
Prelate m his latter days , chose to be regarded , among the eccle * siastics of his time . He seems peculiarly desh'ous of appearing as the coadjutor of Horsleys , ^ that bold and able advocate of hi ^ h * church orthodoxy f . There is at the same time , an insinuation
against a *< Socinian commenton the Lord ' s Supper" by an Ci eminent writer J which is pro - bably designed for Hoadley and his " Plain Account . " Like
Warburton he regarded C Socinianism as a sort of infidelity in disguise , and gave it no quarter !) . " Yet while he treated Dissenters , especially those reputed heretical with general contempt and
occasional calumny , in his writings , his behaviour to those of them , with whom he had any intercourse , cc was marked by respect and kindness . " We state this on the
authority of a friend already mentioned , whose local situation has given him opportunities of gaining correct , informa * tion . On the same authorhy we add that our Prelate was
greatly cc respected and loved by his clergy and his neighbours " and that " when officious bigots called upon him to censure objects of their dislike , he was leni « - ent and considerate in the greatest degree ^ and when applied to ,
some years ago , by a nobleman about the court to hqad a loyal association against republicans , he
4 ' . / * Tracts by Warburton and a Warburtqnian . p . 170 . f See a former Nptfc and Discourse , p . 17 . —Note . \ Discourse , p . 90 . (| Ib , p . 119 .
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532 Memoir of the late Rich . Htird , D . D . Bp . of Worcester ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1808, page 532, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2397/page/8/
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