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-which it deserves , you will not suffer merely speculative and philosophical disquisitions to engage much of your time in the pulpit ; you will not study to amu e and entertain ; but will chiefly enlarge upon those topics , which are essential to their character and hopes as
Christians . And though you should not neglect to place the subjects of which you treat , in the clearest and most impressive view , yet let me recommend it to you to let your chief arguments be drawn from the gospel . Preach the genuine truths of the gospel , and
enforce always the duties which you recommend by the principles and motives of the gospel . I do not mean what some persons affect to call gospel-principles and motives ; but what you shall yourself find to be such , upon diligent and impartial examination .
" Lastly , let me once more call to your particular attention ( I have hinted at it already to my young friends in general ) that you are to be the servant of him who preached the gospel to the poor ; and that it becomes you to imitate him in this respect by always considering carefully , concerning every thing which you deliver , whether the poor are likely to understand it . You will have no
need for this purpose to degrade your style to any thing mean and vulgar : plainness and perspicuity are the genuine , but a pompous diction and artificial flourishes , are © ften only tawdry coverings to poverty of thought . On this subject I will venture tp give you one plain rule , which a person whom I am bound never to think of but with
respect and veneration , was accustomed to prescribe to himself , when composing for the pulpit , in the choice between words of the same meaning , always to prefer those which are derived from the Saxon , and are , therefore , properly English , to those which are drawn from the Latin or Greek sources . The
former will always be understood by the common people , the latter less frequentl y" But i am aware . tliat any further detention of this assembly is , at present , ver } ' unseasonable ; letnie , therefore ,
conclude by commending you , my youngfriend , to God and the word of his grace , beseeching him to enable you to become a faithful and acceptable minister of the gospel , wherever it may please his providence to place you . '' The company then separated after a short devotional exercise 5 highly grati-
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fied with the employment of the days . There have this year been twelve students for the ministry , and seven 1 ~ students . 4 ^' The Report , &c . will be published shortly after the Annual Meeting of Trustees at Manchester ; which will be held in the course of next month
V . F . Newcastle , Ju ly 3 , 1811
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442 Intelligence .- —Western Unitarian Society .
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Rev . John Kenrick opened the service by prayer and the reading of the scrip tures ; the Rev . Edmund Butcher prayed before sermon ; and the Rev . John Kentish preached from 1 John iv . 1—3 , and concluded the service , —the interest
Wester 71 Unitarian Societ y . The Annual Meeting of the Western Unitarian Society was held in Exeter on Wednesday July the 10 th . The religious services of the day were performed in George ' s meeting . In the morning the
of which throughout was , we are persuaded , powerfully felt by all present who are well-wishers to the cause of Unitarianism . The meeting of the society , which was numerously attended , was then held in the Lecture-room , J . Powell , Esq . in the chair ; and after the
usual preliminary business , and the admission of new members , it was resolved unanimously , " that the thanks of the Society be given to the Rev . John Kentish , for his masterly and highly interesting Discourse , vindicating the plan and objects of the Society on the broad basis of Protestantism , and that he be
requested to publish the same , as excellently calculated to promote the cause of free enquiry and religious truth . ' Mr . Kentish gratified the Society by * acceding to their request ; and it will not , we hope ,, be long before our absent members and friends will have an opportunity of forming lor themselves an opinion wHch
we cannot but anticipate . In the course of the business of the Society , it was determined to present books to the amount of 10 I . to the
Committee of the Unitarian Fund , as an expression of good-will to the Fund , and in aid of its important object . It was also resolved to hold the next Annual Meeting , at Bridport ; ™ d / JS ; Robert Aspland was appointed to pre * on the occasion . . , r About half-past four , the members the Society and their friends , ( m
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1811, page 442, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2418/page/58/
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