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pointed to be said or sung in the English Church , and in the older editions of the Book of Common Prayer there is a versification of it by Sternhold and Hopkins This formulary would seem little accordantwith any principles of
harmony ; yet Dr . Watts says , ( Improv . of Mind . ch . xiv . § g , ) that he knew ** a man of peculiar skill in music , who found out > a great resemblance of the Athanasian
doctrine of the Trinity in every single note , and he thought it carried something of argument in it to / pr * yve that doctrineS *
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No . CXXL Popular Preaching . The qualities in a preacher which attract popularity do not always ensure fame . Some of the most eminent writers that the
Dissenters have produced were disre - garded in the pulpit , or disesteemed in comparison with some of their cotemporaries whose names have scarcely survived them . Let our popular preachers read the history of Dr . Lardner , and learn to
estimate aright the honours in which they plume themselves . That great scholar thus wrote in the year 1721 , when he was more than 37 years of age , " I am yet at a loss how to dispose of myself .
I can say I am desirous of being useful in the world . Without this , no external advantages relating to * nyself will make me happy ; and yet I have no prospect of being serviceable in the * work of the
ministry ; having preached many years without being favoured with the approbation and choice of one ^ congregation "—He was foTty-five
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years of age before he obtained a settlement among the Dissenters The rich Dissenting laity were remiss even in purchasing his works . A bank note of twenty pourids , sent to him by that excellent and munificent citizen , Thomas Hollis , was the greatest sum he ever re * ceived as a benefaction . He com .
plained ( how shameful that he should have had occasion to complain !) that he had never received any mark of favour from the Dis ~ senters ; not 9 said he , 50 much as a trust : alluding to Dr . Williams ^ charities and Library , the trustees of which consist of thirteen
ministers and ten lay gentlemen . That body might have had the honour , of making the first scholar in the world one of their number , and by electing him might have added to the satisfaction and pleasure of his life ! But Dr . Lardner
was deaf , and was moreover a Socinian .
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No , CXXII . Ruin of Monarchs : Speed , the Chroniclist , says , " When princes are wilful and slothful , and their favourites flatterers , there needs no other enchantment to infatuate , yea , to ruinate the greatest monarchs . "
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No . CXXIII . No Time in the Grave . Of the Elector of Saxony , who died of an apoplexy in hunting ,
Luther observed , that when his highness waked in the morning of thfc resurrection , he would think he had just returned from bunting .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1813, page 328, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2428/page/44/
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