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    lower branches of mathematics , he went to Daventry , to pursue , under the late Dr . Ashworth , * those studies which are esteemed

    necessary to qualify a young man for the ' duties of the dissenting ministry—a profession to which he had devoU-ci him > elf , with the consent and entire approbation of his father , on a conviction of its great utility . There are those

    living , who , as his contemporaries and fellow . students , weTe the witnesses of the early career of his studies tor the sacred ministry , and who bear the most ample and decisive testimony , not only to the irreproachableness of his moral conduct , but who add , that

    * Dr . Caleb Ash worth was born in Lancashire , in 1709 , was a student under Di . Doddridge , and eventually his successor He died in July , 1775 ^ See a Sermon on th * occasion of h . s death , by the Rev . Samuel Palmer , who mentions that Dr . Ashworth had desired

    that no character might be given of him : c But , " says Mr Palmer , if it had not been for this prohibition , nothing more needed to have been said , than that he was the immediate

    successor of the illustrious Dr . Doddridge , and was nominated by him to this office " f [ r Worthington in his Memoir of Mr . rabfy , to be noticed hereafter , says , for . Ash worth was a man , who , though not distinguished by that acumen of genius and vigour oI imagination , which

    some l > ave possessed , yet by strong sense , inflexible resolution and indefati ~ gable , labour , acquired a store of theological learning , no ^ o fte n exceeded , and through a long train ot years discharged the office of Divinity Tutor ,

    with a respectability and a success , which have seldom been equalled . «*—Dr . Ash worth was author of three single Sermons *• a Collection of Psalm Tunes , with an Introduction to the Art

    of Singingt a Collection of Anthems : an Hebrew Grammar ; : an easy Introduction to Plane Trigonometry , of wbict * an enlarged cdjtion wag published , in the ^ xxthor qi % h * Scienti / if Dialogitai ,

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    bid habits of industry , regularityf and almost incessant diligence , in the pursuit of knowledge were sin * gularly exemplary-

    Independently of the learned languages , and the blanches of sciences taught in dissenting-colleges , he spent much of his time in the study of the works of those divines who had

    flourished in the precedingcentury , and who were distinguished for their talents and zeal in the cause of Christian truth ; and so satisfied was he of the vast importance of this kind of reading , that in his Address to the Students of the

    New College , t he says , " Let me exhort you frequently to read the practical writers of the last age . Some of their sentiments may not accord with your ' s or mine ; but there is a fervour of

    piety breathing through all their works , which no modern improvements in knowledge or elegance can supersede , and which will be of infinite service to us , in all our prayers and discourses , "

    Mr , Worthington , while a stu * dent at Daventry , was likewise a great reader of sermons : he was well acquainted with the merit of all the waiters who were distinguished in this sort of composition he did not read them for mere

    amusement , but for the purpose of irrjbibing in his own mind whatever was excellent in Tillotson , in Clarke , in Bates , in Seed , in Jor . tin , and many other preachers , in

    and put of the pale of the established church . It was his custom on each returning Sundayf before he was himself called to the pulpit , not only to attend the . duties of . public worship , with the . *" '^—

    t Sice a Sermon pf ^ M »* */ r ? - Jewry , May 6 $ , 1 7 * $ >*

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    562 Memoir of the late Rtv . Hugh WorthingtoH *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 562, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/2/