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pendently of victories over our enemies , we have reason , he said , to be very grateful for our insular situation : ~ our climate / — our commerce T * r-our attainments in r 0 w m * f 9 w \^* " » -w w »^> w — - —¦—¦ — - - — — — _ _ _ _ —
^^ ^^ ^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^ science and literature : —and our privileges ^ with regard to civil and religions freedom . In speaking of the death of Lord Nelson , he says , < 4 The Eternal Disposer of events has , on this
occasion , most awfully proclaimed the truth , that he is alike able to save and destroy * Interesting lesson ! In the very moment of victory , he has withdrawn the
instrument by which he wrought it ; Unnerved the arm which had just been directing the British thunder ; and for ever closed the eye , which day and night used to watch over our safety and happiness . ' *
In adverting to the religious improvement that national mercies demand , the preacher exclaimed , 4 The man that will not sincerely and ardently pray for his country , deserves not to breathe its air : let
him go to a clime , the atmosphere of which is as frigid as his own soul ' . " Mr , Worthington published some other sermons , to which the wri - ter of ihis article has not access
one of these was preached before the u Corresponding Board , in I ^ ondon , for erecting Schools , and propagating the Gospel in the Highlands : " another was a Sermon preached in behalf of the Charity-school in Wood Street , Spital Fields .
His avocations , as a pastor of a large congiegation , were numerous and frequently pressing : he was likewise engaged' in several publib trusts : of the Presbyterian Ptmd he was an active member : and at Sellers' Hall he had
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pleached more than fordy sfcr ~ mons , in recommendation of that excellent charity : he had also preached , forKjlyfe same purpose , at the chapels in Princes Street , Westminster 5 Hanover Street
Long Acre ; Leather Lane , Hoi . born ; perhaps , likewise at other places , and upon these occasions the collections were always considerable .. Mr . Worthington , was a patron to the Orphan Working School , in the City Road ; and he had been one of the trustees
to Dr . Williams ' s estates and library twenty-eight years . For many years , previously to his decease , he had been afflicted with ill health , which probably prevented him from those extra
exertions , in the way of literature , which , in many cases ^ seem not only compatible with the profession of a dissenting minister , but which are likely to augment a minister ' s happiness , by rendering him more independent of the
people among whom he labours . A dissenting minister , to be useful in the highest possible degree , to say nothing of his own personal ease and comfort , should be , and feel perfectly independent of his hearers , nor suffer himself to b «
dictated to , as to the doctrines which he thinks it his duty to promulgate and insist upon . He has , in general , a better opportunity for pursuing speculative enquiries , than those who attend upon his ministry , because he is
enabled , by the support which he derives from his office ^ to devote a considerable portion of time to enquiries connected with hifr profession , and he should claim , as his right , the utmost freedom in stating the progress of his convictions ; for if a man b «
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StG Memoir of the late Rev * HughWbrtbingim
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 570, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/10/
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