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esting •¦** themew « But what made him chiefly known to the public , u ^ as the zeal . and activity with which he exerted himself for the establishment and support of the Warrington i \ cademy ; u the indefatigable pains which he took for this purpose /* by epistolary correspondence and personal app lication ; the great sacrifices which he made , both of monev and time , in the promotion of this favourite object , the indifference which he shewed to fame or censure , to good or evil report ¦ > so that he might servethe interests of
the institution ; and the satistaction which he discovered in every degree of success with which it was attended / ' But the history of this Seminary , which , with all
the imperfections in its constitution and management , was eminently
serviceable to the cause of rational Christianity , and of liberty both civil and religious , the writer of these notes , if he have encourage - ment to hope that they will be acceptable to the readers of the Repository , will endeavour to sketch out in some subsequent numbers .
Mr . Seddon , it is believed , never published any thing but his share in the Liverpool Eorm of Prayer , referred to under No . 36 . That he waLs the author of a * -
Letter to a Dissenting Minister , on the expediency of stated Fornis of Prayer , " printed for A . Millar , 1753 , not only he himself explicitly denied j but internal evidence ^ sufficiently disproves : the whole
structure of the liturgy appended to it beii ^ gujpon the reputed j ^ riho * dox system . The introduction of these Forms , it is well-known ^ occasioned a long and ably supported controversy , on the subject of
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free arid writ ten ' prayers . It is by no means the wish of the present wri - ter to contribute to its revival ; but he begs leave to observe , that the three gentlemen concerned in the corapositkm of these Forms , were eminent among their brethren , for the ability with which they conducted what is called free prayer ; that , while they furnished those of their fellow Christians , who , thinking otherwise , applied to them for assistance , with the best helps in their power for
conducting their devotions in the way they moreapproved , they did not themselves enter at all into the public controversy ; but that one of them , Mr . Holland , has been heard by the present writer , in private conversation , to repel , with spirit and ability , the objections which are usually made to free prayer .
What he afterwards thought it proper to advance on the subject , jnay be seen in his Character of the Christian Preacher , ( bernu vol . ii . p . 420—3 . 1 Mr . Seddon died of a fever , Jan . 2 . 2 . 1770 , in the 46 th year of his age . His excellent friend Dr . Percival , who from his' youth had been trained up under his direction , and who stands at the
head of the list of pupils in his favourite seminary of education , has given , in an address to his eldest son , ( Father ' s Instructions , part i . p . 37- ) the following character of " this counsellor of his
youth , and friend and companion of his riper years , " " He possessed a solid judgment , and enlarged vi | derstaD < ii » g ; and , what is rifely found tonited wiitH them , a lively
imagination , a quick conception , and a ; refine < l tagt $ . H * a knowledge was rather jgenej ^ ai and ex ttttisiirfc iha& profound ; Sfith ^ ideas wer ^^ o ^ wcii asrung ^ d ^ tbat he had than always at command , aiid
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List of Dr 9 Rotkeram ' s Pupi / s . 4 QQ
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1810, page 429, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2408/page/5/
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