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very good book . As an assistant in preparing the practical part of your exposition no b < ok , perhaps , will be found more useful than Mat ! hew Henry . It is acknowledged ti » at this book has not of lute years been much in fashion among those who have assumed the title of rational divines ; but they may not perhaps , have shewn their judgment in slighting it so much . His thoughts are conveyed , indeed , in quaint language ; and he has often fanciful , and sometimes false remarks : but his Exposition will be found , after these deductions , to contain an
in-V . I know not whether there is yet at any such establishment as a congregational library ; but if not , you will judge
exhaustible store of practical reflection . I remember once hearing Dr . Enfield say , that he never drew out a scheme of a sermon without afterwards consulting Matthew Henrv before he sate down to compose ii ; and that he scarcely ever found that he had got any thing in his scheme which Henry had not anticipated him , but often found much in Henry that had not occurred to himself .
for yourself how far and how soon it may be proper to make the experiment . I am afraid a taste lor reading and a spirit of free inquiry has not been much encouraged : at first , therefore , it may be proper to begin upon a small scale , and chiefly with practical books ; by degrees you may get a few of the best works on the Evidences , some of the more useful Expositions , particularl y Mr . Kenrick's ; after a while you may add some tracts on the Right of Private Judgment , the Grounds of a Protestant Dissent ,
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the Corruptions of Christianity . Ia the mean time time the judicious distribution of some smaller tracts ( as Clarke ' s Answer to the Question , " Why are you a Christian , " the Calm and Plain Answer to the
Question , Why are you a Dis . seiner , " of which a cheap edition has been lately printed by Flower , and some of Wright ' s Tracts , which are particularly suited to this purpose ) may pave the way for a more general taste for read , ing , and a more enlarged turn of thought . Though indeed I can . not think that the principal members of your congregation will be at all backward in encouraging the scheme of a library when once
fairly proposed to them . Inform , ing your library you may possibly derive some advantage from consulting the Catalogues ( with the prefaces ) of those at Bolton and Newcastle . VI . What provision is made at > for the education of the
children of the poor , 1 know not ; but you will of course be very attentive to the improvement of these useful establishments . But on this subject I content myself with referring you to Joseph Lan . caster ' s " Address to the Patrons
of Sunday Schools , " and to the excellent practical application of its principles by the Messrs . Gaskclls , at Warrington . Before I conclude this long
epistle will you allow me , my dear sir , to put you in mind , thai the people whom you are going to serve have not been used to many innovations , and have as good a
right to have their old customs , which you may think p rejudices , treated at least with : tenderness , as the novelties , ( which they * &S perhaps think such ) on which tue
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478 Letter to a young l ) issenting Minister .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1811, page 478, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2419/page/30/
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