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most repgious punctuality , but to peruse six or eight , or sometimes more , sermons with so much care as to be able on the next day , to give from inembry , a luminous view of the subjects treated on : an analysis of the arguments by which all the duties had been enforced * and the doctrines
illustrated and defended , and to state with that accuracy and precision , for which he was ever remarkable , all the practical inferences deduced by each author from the topics discussed . By this method , and with the aid of his most
retentive memory , he laid up stores of knowledge , peculiarly adapted to his future usefulness as apreaeher . When he had been at Daventry the usual course of five years , he was chosen assistant tutor in the classical department , but in the interval between the completion of his own studies , and the commencement of his duty as
tutor , he came to London , on a visit to his friends ; and being invited to assist sonie of them in the pulpit , his fame instantly spread , and he was regarded as the most popular preacher among the class
of Dissenters in which he had , enrolled himself . Scarcely had he commenced the business of classical tutor , when be was invited to become assistant-preacher at Suiters * Hall , in connection with the
Rev , Francis Sp ilsbiiry , who had beeri pastor to the congregation assembling there , ' for more than thirjy years . Mr . Worthington accepted the iffvitaiiori , arid began"his services a * Saltenj ' Hall , on the 1 st of
January , 1774 , having succeeded to Aat place' bjr ttie / ' resign * tibn of *• Rev ; ttW Father , tt ^ cele-
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brated author of treatises on the " Temptation of Christ in the Wilderness : "—on " Miracles : **—on the ' « Daemoniacs of the New Testament ; " and on " The General Prevalence of the Worship of Human Spirits in the Antient Heathen Nations . *
The youthful preacher instantly drew crowds to hear him ; and though the duties which hi * performed were those of th ^ afternoon , the place was always full , and the hearers attentive and serious . He
had , from his first appearance in the pulpit , in his manner and in his discourses , that kind of eloquence which arrested the attention , and which effectually pre *
vented the listlessness and langour that are too frequently observable in afternoon congregations . The popularity which he acquired at the outset of life , never once deserted him .
He appeared before the public as an author , for the first time , in the year 1775 , when be published , at the desire of his hearers , a sermon which he had preached on the 28 th of May , entitled * ' A Good Character better than a
Great Fortune /* On the 1 st of January , 1778 , he was called to preach a sermon for the benefit of a charity-school , which had been established nearly a century in Gravel lane , Soijthwark . This sermon was published ; the subject is " The Progress of moral Corruption , ** from the wofds
of St . Paul ;— " Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump . * ' He considers the teict as a pr&verbial saying ve ^ y common at the per ^ od ^ when usjed by the apostle , and shews its application to states , churches ; fattfiilits afitf iftamdixalS . WithVej&la
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Memoir of the late Rev . ffugh Worthington . 666
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 563, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/3/
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