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tial to acceptable worship . His sermons were instructive , plain , scriptural , and adapted to the young . —Almost all of them a-
bounded with short and energetic sentiments , that might be treasured up in the mind as striking and important axioms , easily remembered , and of great practical utility in life . What he uttered , seemed to come from the heart ,
and instantly made its way to the hearts of his hearers . He inte ~ Tested persons of all ages , but the young were particularly captivated by that earnestness and zeal "which he everdisplayed in recommending to their attention the duties of religio n *
c < With what ardour did he , from the commencement of his public ministry , warn others still less advanced in the progress of life than himself , against the seductions of vice!—In what
striking colours would he exhibit the folly and danger of those who did t \ ot , as far as it was possible , avoid the enticements and company pf those who had lost their own character , and who were run
ning , down the road to destruction . He studied the human heart , and was quick in the application of his knowledge to the purposes of jnoral instruction . Hence he was
perpetually urging those just em * barked on the dangerous ocean of life , to mark with a firm and steady opposition , the ~ earliest allurements intended to draw them from the
path of rectitude : to be satisfied with such pleasures $ s were simpie , innocent and manly ; such as a benevolent Creator had appointed to cheer the path of life ; and to have recourse to them always as a recreation , not as the main business of existence .
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u frequeritly and successful * ly exhorted young persons , in every sphere of life , to keep their eyes
constantly fixed on some object that required jictivitj of mind and energy of thought , and that mi ght prove useful to themselves , or beneficial to others : he did not
cease to admonish them , that history bad transmitted no name to posterity with honour , that ha 3 not sacrificed pleasure to dutythat had not on important occa * sions , proved its magnanimity by self-denial , leaving the application to their own reflections .
4 C There are those living who recollect with pleasure , who remember with gratitude , impressions made by the discourses of Mr . Worthington , much more than thirty years ago ; to which they willingly impute any little ardour
they themselves have evinced in life , in the cause of virtue and sound knowledge . He , we may venture to assume , now thait he is no more , seldom or never pleaded in behalf of the interests of
religion in vain . By his exhortations he has warned multitudes from rocks , that would have wrecked their frail barks : he has enabled them so resist or subdue the gay passions of youth , and to put a decisive negative to the seductions of those who hati themselves fallen
victims to the fatal snares of unlawful pleasure . 46 By means such as those , which have been very feel / ly described , few preachers have been more useful ; and very few , as
preachers , will be longer remembered . By the impressive style of Ijis preaching , he excised in many other persons , intended for different pursuits , a desire of becoming ministers of religion , and then
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% fl Memoir of the late Rev . Hugh WorVMagtmt . s
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 574, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/14/
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