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to the rfefctory of Pepef Har % by the dtfwager Lady Mid die ton , and Her son the visdount . To the literature of his own country Mr , Manning performed a most acceptable task , by completing the S&iibn Dictionary begun by his friend Mr , Lye . This dictionary , the labour of 30 years , was pub . lished under the patronage of a handsome subscription , in 2 vols , folio , in 1772 . To this Mr .
Manning prefixed an account of the rise and progress of the work , in ari elegant Latin preface , aecompartying it also with a grammar
of the Saxon and Gothiclanguages . In an appendix are subjoined fragment ! of Ulphilas ' s version of the epistle to the Romans , sundry Saxon charters , a Sermon on
Antichrist , a Fragment of the Saxon Chronicle , and other instruments . Mr . Manning was author of the " History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey , ' * arid of several sertnons which , vfith others , have beefn lately published in two volumes : and of these we are now
to give a brief account . These sermons , we are told , were left , by the author , for publication , ** in the hope of counteracting certain doctrines which appeared to be gaftiing grbund in these kingdoms / ' They are twenty-four in number , and on various
important subjects , such as The Advantages of , and Rules for , Reading th ' 6 Scriptures r- ^ alvatidn to Good Men under every Dispensation ;—On Regeneration ;
— Election ;— Justification ; —Re * ti gious Melancholy vr-The Jewish a » d Christian Sabbaths ;— Coming to < 5 bfist > - *** Phe Mercy and Works . Frojn thi sf enumeration , which * n » m * embmm hall the topic * ¦
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treated of in the volumes before Us , the reader will easily perceive that they are amply sufficient to give full scope to the preacher ' s talents and zeal in displacing the true Christian doctrines * He had , it appears , ever been anxious to lead the people entrusted to his care to a rational knowledge of
the perfections of their Maker , as they are set forth in the Old and New Testament : that they might look to , and worship him as the God and Father of all men : as
being no respecter of persons , but the rewarder of all who sincerely endeavour to obey his commands . He considered what have been called ( falsely called ) the peculiar doctrines of the Christian religion as tending to vilify the attributes
of his Maker , as j ? regnant with the most pernicious consequences when taught to the great mass of the people , and as tenets that cannot be fairly inferred from the
writings of the prophets and apostles , in which the Deity is represented as having a free , spontaneous , and unpurcbftsed paternal love for all his children . That
Mr . Manning regarded the doc * trines of regeneration , of election ^ justification , &c . as they are popularly taught , as corruptions of Christianity , against which it is the duty of the Christian preacher to lift up his voice , is evident from the discourses which he has
devoted to the discussion of these momentous subjects , and front which we could extract much interesting and irnportant matter , > would the limits of our publication allow u $ to enlarge . Tiras in the sermon on " R e *
generation /* he saya " to he converted , in its literal interpretation , signifies to be turned about .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1813, page 405, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2429/page/49/
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