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Wortbington ' s account , a matter of doubt whether Mr . S . were
attached to the doctrines of Calvin or Arminius , whether he Was * Trinitarian or au Arian , far no one , at that period , would suspect him of the species of Unuananism , which admits only of the simple humanity of Christ . On the death of this gentleman .
who was universally respected , and who , " instead of amusing the flock of God with things of a trivial nature , or perplexing them
with those of a controversial kind , insisted upon plain practical subjects / ' * Mr . Worthington was chosen to succeed to the pastoral office , and on the 15 th of the
following May was , with Mr . Rol > ert Jacomb , ordained . The service was performed at Salters ' Hall ; and the principal officiating ministers were the Rev , Dr . Kippis , who preached from the words of the apostle Paul , ic I am liot ashamed of the gospel ofv
Christ : " the Rev . Dr . Rees , the Rev . Michael Pope , and the Rev . Hugh Worthington , senior , who delivered a charge $ founded on the words , * ' Make full proof of thy ministry ^ '' which contained a number of excellent
observations and much good advice . The Se ^ ttion and Charge , together * tfith the questions put by Mr . Pope to the candidates for ordination , and their respective Answers , which were , - in general , liberal- ) - and : iifranly , were published .
• See the Funeral Sermon above referred to . f Mr . Jafcomb was a few years morning preacher at Salters * Hall : he afterwards removed to Leicester > as assistant t& th ^ fleW H ^ h Wbtthihgtori , seiii 6 r , whom he aftcHmds ^ ucceetfed , as palter to Che society * Mr * Jacomb , in his
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In the summer oi this year , Mr , Worihington married Susanna , the eldest daughter of the Rev . Samuel Statham , < ai Nottingham , a lad y in whom were united an excellent
and cultivated understanding , and a mildness of manners and disposition . > adapted to render the mar * riage life a state of mutual comfort and happiness . By h « r he had two daughters , both of whom died within a few hours of their births . This amiable and
excellent lady , after a long illness , died in the month of March , 1806 . Very early in the year i 7 $ 6 > a plan was torm ^ d to establish an academical institution , in the neighbourhood <» f London , forth * education of ministers and others .
Mr . Worthington was one of nrnt ' persons selected as a Committee to consider and arrange the means for carrying the plan into execu * tion . An appeal was made to the Dissenters at large , for their approbation and pecuniary assistance
in the promotion of this scheme . Several thousand pounds were , in a short time , subscribed ; tutors wete chosen ; and the lectures commenced in the month of September , 1786 , at the library in Red cross Street .
Mr . Worthington undertook the classical department , with which were connected the study of logic and other branches df knowledge .
He attended , ' during that session , three , times a week , and alsa twice or thrice a week after the college was opened at Hackney . In the spring of l 78 # ? he sent ili his
reanswers referred to , avowed himself a believer in the horrible doctrine of the Eternity of Hell Torment ^ a doctrine from which the mind , of his colleague , at Sailers' Hall , was ever abhorrent .
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566 Memoir of the late Rev . Hugh tVorthingtoit *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 566, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/6/
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