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ficc / or , 'that his pupil Sanderson had a metaphysical brain and a matchless me ?
nory ; and that he thought he had improved , or made the last so by an art of his own invention . ' And all the future employments of his life , proved that his Tutor was not mistaken * . " Thus he went on in an obscure and quiet privacy , doing good daily both by
word and by deed , as often as any occasion offered itself ; yet not so obscurely , but that his very great learning-, prudence and piety v / ere much noted and valued by the Bishop of his diocese , and by most of , the nobility and gentry of that county . ( Lincolnshire . ) By the first of which , he was often summoned
to preach many visitation sermons a . nd by the latter at many assizes . Which sermons , though they were much esteemed by them that procured and were fit to judge them , yet they were the less valued , because he read them , which
he was forced to do ; for though he had en extraordinary memory , ( even the art of it . ) yet he had such an innare , invincible fear and bashfulness , that h ; s 7 nemory zuiis ivholly useless , as to the repetition o [ his sermons as he had writ them ; which gave occasion to say , when they were first printed and exposed to censure , ( which was in the year 16 3 a , ) That the best sermons that ivere ever read
ivere ne-ver preaiijed . " " About this time his dear and most intimate f . iend , the learned Dr . Harnpiond ) came to enjoy a conversation and rest with him for some days , and did so .
And having forme ; ly persuaded him to trust his excellent memory , and not read , but try to spea ] k a sermon as he had writ it ; Dr . Sanderson became so complyant as to promi .-. e he would . And to that end they two went early the Sunday
ioJlowing to a neigtyoourinj ; minister , and requested to exchange . 1 sermon ; and they did so . And at Dt \ S underson g s going irto the pulpit , his gave his sermon ( which was a very short one ) into the / land of Dr . Hummond , intending to preach it as it . was writ : but before he
had preached a third part , Dr . Hammond ( looking on his sermon as written ) observed him to be out , and so lost as to the mutter , that he almost became afraid for him , for it was discernible to many of the plain auditory : But when'he had ended this short rermon , as they two jviilked homeward , Dr . Sanderson said
* The copy of Bishop Sanderson * life in nay possession , ( the ( irst edition ) is n paged .
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with much earnestness , Good Doctor , j *' v * jg me my sermon , and know that neither y ^ u 9 nor any man livings shall ever persuade m . s to preach again tvithottt my book * To whlccl the reply was , Good Doctor , be not angry ; for if I ever persuade you to preach again ivithout hook , I tvill rive you-leave to bum 1
all those that I am master of . * " His memory was so matchless and firm , as it was only overcome by his bashfuiness ; for he alone , or to a friend , could repeat ail the Odes of Horace * all Tull ys
Offices , and much of Juvenal and P ^ r&ius without book ; and would say , the repcti ~ tion of one of the Odes of Horace to hi * rself ions to Jjim suth music , as a lesson on the "viol < zvas to Others , ivhen they played it t »
themselves or friends " These tiring and perplexing thoughts begot in him an averseness to enter into the toil of considering and determini 13 or all casuistical points ; because duriug that time , they neither gave r * est to his
body or mind . But though he would not be always loden with the ? e knorty points and distinctions ; yet the sriulv of old records , ge / is .-logies and L > erxldry 9 were a recreation and ^ o pleasing-, that he would say they guve rest to his mind . Of the la > t of which 1 have seen two
remarkable volumes ; and the render needs neither to doubt their truih or exactness . " ' " There was in his diocese a minister of almost his a ^ e , that hud been of Lin col ^ Collcgey when he left it , who visited him often , and always welcome , because he was a man of innocence and
open-heartedness- This -minister askeil the Bishop what boo-cs he studied most , when he laid the foundation of hi « great and clear lean-iri £ ? To which hi ; answer was , that he declined reading many ; but what he clid read were well chosen , and read so often , that he became very familiar with them ; and said they were chicUy three , Ar ' nt . tL ' s
Rhetoric , silqtn / Uis s Se > unda Se . unda : , and " J ' uUy , but chiefly hi « > Offices , which he had not read over less than twenty times , and could at this age ( 75 , ) say . without book . And told him al . ^ o , the learned civilian Dr . Zo : ichy ( v \ ho died lately ) find writ Elementa * Juri prudential , which Was a book that he could also say without book ; and that no wise man could read
it too often , or love , or commend too much ; and told him thc-c had been his toil . But for himself , he always had a
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Mr . Tfrrclfcefd and ' Bisfiop Sanderson compared . 591
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1808, page 591, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2398/page/15/
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