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ffali . It is but justice to add Hfrtkt nothing but unworthy cony ^ utrt ever induced him to with'draw the friendship he had once given . The distresses , on account V > f the smallness of their stipends , to which many of his brethren , in
Uniformly kind and beneficent . It has already been remarked that his preaching was eminently J > racticial . He very seldom brought controversy into the pulpit , or delivered what might properly be denominated doctrinal sermons .
the Christian mi nistry , are ex posed , ! &y ' nea : r his heart ; he was often ^/ Successful advocate with persons tlf affiuente , for their relief , and , fe some of them , he was himself
He made ho secret , however , of his religious sentitnents : they were those usually styled Aridn ^ but he had too much knowledge of the real difficulties of theology , &nd too much Christian candour , to condemn n with asperity the
breeds of any of his brethren . Those views of Christianity to \ vhich he Adhered through life , It appears "he embraced very early , at least he w&s thus congratulated upon his steadiness by a friend and fellow student in the
irnonth of August 1806 , in the dedication of a volume of lectures to him . " Of the same standing in life , educated at the same AAcademy , and class-fellows for five years , " we embraced the same system of religious opinions , which farther lekaniination has not indqced us fo relinquish . Your active mind and " popular ' talents poised outy&s your proper sphere , ' 4 h ^ r tietropoK * j ; - and ; that rc ^ peCt-HHbW Sbef ' &f , Which invited you ' ' t&tty&Mto&lhefr ' minikter . There , ttf « Mllfliig ^ in ^ h ^ M ^^ '& { ydttr Ve * Kerable and excellent father , you
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have maintained the caused ® f rational piety , and laboufred ^ with undiminished acceptance and use . fulness . *' He was the eldest son of the venerable Hugh Wotthingtdii , A . M . who was , fot above forty years , minister to a numerous a ' nxl respectable society of dissenters at Leicester . He received hfs
academical education at Datoentry , under the tuition of the Rev . C&-leb Ashworth , D . D . Immediately upon leaving the acadeniy , Mr . Worthington " invited to
Salters Hall , as assistant to the Rev . Francis Spilsbury , wftose funeral sermon he preached Marth 17 , 1782 . It is a little remarkable that he also had filled that
pulpit for forty years . What a jarge portion of a century do these two periods make , and in that space , or rather in seventy-two years , &s Mr . Worthington \ vas eight years assistant preacher , Sailers' Hall has had only two pastors ! Mr . WorlhingtonV last sermon was delivered July I lib ,
1813 . After this he left the metropolis for Worthing , which for many years had been his favourite resort . He had frequently found relief from sea-air , and was willing to make the experiment again . Here he passed a fortnight without any
material change , but with occasional alterations for the better . On Sunday , the 25 th , he attended public worship , expressed himself plea&ed with the performance of the services , although those services were conducted on the
principles of Calvinism , from which he was ever aVersev" tie spent the evening with -bis ' 'usual cheerfulness , and retired &t hi « accustomed hour *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1813, page 548, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2431/page/60/
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