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    his intercourse with the Tutors . This , however , does not appear to have produced any ill effects ^ excepting in the first instance :

    to which his great partiality for the Hutchesonian metaphysics , which Dr . Taylor greatly disliked , and his own dislike of the doctrine

    of atonement , under any modification , —above all , ( heard he lent to the composition of the Liverpool Liturgy , * might also contribute not a little . But he was not a

    Socinian any more than Dr . Taylor , though Messrs . Bogue and Bennett , with their accustomed accuracy , bring this heavy charge against them both ,+ evidently con .

    * 1 * hat he was not the author of the u Letter to a Dissenter , " and that he had no wish to introduce a Liurgy generally , the present writer has obtained additional evidence . He never used any written notes in prayer . That in the

    new modelling of his chapel , his pulpit should be made with a reading desk , is do more a proof of the contrary , than that any secret intention of a similar kind should have been lurking in the minds of those who constructed the

    pulpits at Manchester , Chester , York , and most of our older places of worsbip * if . See VoL III . p . 344 . Mr . Seddon of Manchester , had no concern in the liturgy-controversy 5 and of Mr . Seddon of Warrington , who was the person to

    whom Mr . Orton wrote , as well as of his two colleagues , Di- Priestley says , * We were ajl Brians : the only Socinian in the neighbourhood was Mr . Seddon of Manchester , and we all wondered at him / ' p . 48 . In Vol . IV , p . » 83 . Dr . Taylor is represented as abondoning

    the doctjrinje of Christ ' s deity and atone * ment for the cheerless system of Socitius . " That he ^ as no Socinian may be distinctly seen in what he says oi

    the person of Christ in his Catechism * Notwithstanding all its inaccuracies , however , and gross misrepresentations , the present author is disposed on the whole to tharik Messrs . Bogue and Ben-• tt &c their *« History of Dissenter * "

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    founding , in the former case , th # two Seddons together . Mr . Seddon was resiarkably gentlemanlike and aflabJe in his manners ; and took great notice of the students , particularly those

    in the more advanced classes , by whom be was greatly beloved , - ~ He had a yery fine voice , and an animated , popular manner in the pulpit ; which , in conjunction

    with the judicious instructions of Dr . Aikin , no doubt contributed greatly to the character for propriety and force of elocution by which the students educated at

    Warrington during that period were generally distinguished * He married a lady , whose fa . ther had been . Equerry to Frederick Prince of Wales , and who possessed a considerable fortune . But a great part of this ha *

    having been lost in some unsuccessful speculations in cotton - printing works established near Stockport by some relations of her ' s , he consented , after having given his services for many years to the institution , in his capacity

    of rector and secretary , to accept a small Salary (^ 50 ) on be * coming also a tutor . His Lee * . tures on Oratory , and on Gram * mar , were prepared with great care , and rweard Witt great atteju tkm afrid pleasure . A copy of both , in three 4 to volumes , fairly

    written out by hirpsvlf , was placed in the library after his death , and continues to form a part of lh « library at York . The Institution had now the

    And he cannot but wish that every ^^ nctefr" ( p . * 84 ) as well a » narrow Dissenter , would give U , wa attentilfc * perusal * Th ^ y , might learn tram * t many salutary Icasoas- Fas etf et ab h * U doceri .

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    % 9 & Historical Account of the Warrington Academy *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1813, page 290, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2428/page/6/