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? ifered y ou , gentlemen , a few hints on the proper app lication , in future life , of the knowledge Which you have here acquired ; but there is tile less occasion for this , as you have lately been fui nished with such excellent instructions on this particular subject , from a quarter which
cannot fail to command your most respectful attention : * more especially as mo-t ofyou are to return to this place , with a view to continue your studies under the . same able direction . My young friend , who has now completed his academical course , will , however ,
perhaps excuse me , if I venture to add a few suggestions to the advice which I have just referred to . I shall not presume to add to that valuable sketch any remarks on the conduct of public worship , or the methods of public instruction ; nor shall I suggest any reflections on the private exercise of his duty as a Christian teacher , because he will
probably see my thoughts on some of these particulars very shortly laid before the public in the Monthly Repository * . I shall therefore confine myself , in what I shall now presume to say , to a fewcircumstances in the general personal conduct of a minister of the gospel . The
apostle recommends it to a young disciple , " Take heed to the ministry ;" the ori ginal is very comprehensive and energetic , ( 3 \ etf £ nqv SkzkovixV ) "Look at , keep your eye upon , the ministry which you have received ; ' *
TTIOi n TO «• " ! * - ¦ ** . ** . mtm . *~ 4 . «* a-k . A _ r-m . A _ A . J- * . * - * . ± « . ** . *>^ Ai —* . Ms ^ -k a * «* maintain a constant attention to your office and character . Such an attention , in a young minister more especially , will give the proper direction to his studies , will animate his labours , and regulate his whole conduct . The appearance of toch attention will also contribute to his
general estimation in the world , and , particularl y , will dispose his hearers to attend to him with candour and respect . « will lead , besides , to that decorum of toannm and behaviour , which the world ^ jpec ta in the teacher of religion . I ftfer not here to a mere freedom from
Pws and glaring faults ; but to those nunor proprieties , a deficiency in which M ? y displeasing , and obstructive of a Aster ' s usefulness and success : —if ,
Objects of Pursuit proper for Young persons who have received a Liberal fducation &c . by the Rev . C . Wcllb cloved . t In the next No . —Ed .
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for instance , he be supercilious , dictatorial , or morose ; or if he affect , on the one hand , an unmeaning formality , or on the other , a debasing levity of tern * per and behaviour . It is difficult , indeed , to describe in words , those becoming and graceful manners which are suited to any character or profession , but the
general idea of those which are proper to the character of a Christian minister , appears to be that of sedate composure , softened by affability and courtesy of manners ; bespeaking at once an enlightened understanding , an I a spirit adorned with humility , regulated by meekness , and animated With
benevolence . This seems the deportment most becoming a servant of the meek and lowly Jesus , whose example should be the rule of a minister ' s conduct , as his doctrine , and his only , should be that of his preaching . " I trust , my young friend , that you will always keep this in remembrance ,
that you are the minister of Jesus Christ . To him , and to no other upon earth , are you accountable for your faith and doctrine . It is your happiness , and I am persuaded that you consider it as such , to have pursued your preparatory studies , ' and now to enter upon the Christian ministry , unshackled by
subscription to articles of human composition , and uncontrouledby the restraints of human authority . You are not enlisted by us to militate for the support of any system of theology , or any ecclesiastical establishment or pofity whatever . You may , therefore , pursue your studies unembarrassed by the fear of
falling under temptations to violate the dictates of your conscience . In such a state of liberty , you have every encouragement to be diligent in the study of the scriptures ; to this makeallyour other knowledge in language and science subservient : and what you shall yourself there find to be the truth as it is in Jesus ,
be diligent and faithful in communicating to your hearers , without concealing or keeping back any thing . For though you are at full liberty to study the scriptures freely , and for yourself , you are not at liberty to ne . lect what you shall find
in them . As a minister of Je-us Christ , you will observe the rule which your Master hath laid down , and 4 fc teach ' your hearers «« to observe all things whatsoever he hath commanded . " If you observe this rule with the veneration
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Intelligence . —York Institution . 441
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1811, page 441, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2418/page/57/
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