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tural ... jt ( & £ ^ y tTian should lay most « tress upon his own means of usefulness : Mr . Simpson ' was the pre 6 s : but we cannot see why the different means may not be
of his deceased friend , lt No man was ever more zealous for the spread and propagation of truth , although he differed from many worthy persons in his view of the methods most proper and efficient for this important purpose , He was not impelled by the
sanguine temper of a restless activity , a janaiicalimpatience to ccmp ' oss sea and land in order to make proselytes . " ( p . 20 . ) — -This woulu seem to . be the temper of the worthy persons from whom Mr . Simpson differed 1 Yet we beg leave to remind Mr . Jervis that he himseK
would not have explained the tlifFerei > ce or justified his standing aloof from certain plans of religious activity , in such terms * We write , in the distinct recollection of a conversation with the deceased on this very point 3 when we yejaturse to ajssert , that he would not have rebuked unrandidly what he
thought immoderate zeal , or have violently enforced moderation and quietilfcss *^ -M r . Jervis adds , Nor was it bis practice to ? preach polemical sermons . Controversial subjects he conwd ^ red as ^ tlie proper province of the press rather trian the pulpit . The tittle commonly occupied in this place ,
he thought might be more profitably applied to the purposes of general instruction , of consoling and animatingthe hearers , of inculcating upon their minds just and rational notions of God , and of their duty , and imparting to them the true spirit of the gospel . " ( zfiu ) Upon this we might ask , how € < instriictfon ' can be " general" but
by being particular ? a » nl how * ' just and rational notions of God" can be successfully taught without removing such nations of God ( aud in Mr . Simpsoii s judgment , ia Mr * Jervis ' s ,
and in our ' s , the popular notions are such ) as are unreasonable and unscriptural ? Bftt it will be sufficient to refiaaxk , in order to shew that Mr . Simpson ' s authority is not adverse to controversial sermons , that the only
sermon which he published was con troversial ! { See No . 3 , of his Wri
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consistently adopted by the same person , and wh y he may not avail himself equally of the press and of the pulpit , and not merely of the regular , canonical puipir , but also of that which convenience consecrates for the occasion .
We have it not in our power to enumerate Mr . Simpson ' s more particular friends , which as it would be a most pleasant , so also is it a most useful office of biography ; but we have the authority of Mr . Jervisf for saying that he was in habits of occasional and
friendly intercourse with Dr . Stock , Bishop of Waterford , who translated from the Hebrew originals tlie book of Job and the book of Isaiah : these two venerable
persons closed their lives , which had been directed to nearly the same objects , about the same time , Dr . Stock )) dying on Sunday , the 15 th of August , and Mr , Simpsoa on the Wednesday following .
Mr , Simpson appears to halve attained to a very rare degree of moral and Christian excellence . He was held in general esteem :
the rich reward of his various virtues . He was firm in his principles , steady in his conduct , and counvous in his manners ; modest , humble , atiectionate , disinterested and generous . iC His life was innocence—^ his end \ vias peace . When he approached the close of his mortal career , his disease , in us first attack , was unexpected , sudden and alarm . ing ; iti its progress to its fatal termination , rapid and awfully affecting . Providentially , his
suff Ser . Note . p . 50 . || We should be extremely obliged to any of our correspondents whe * would favour lib with a Mejuoirof Um learned and amiable prelate *
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Brief Memoir of thtJate Rcxi * John Simpson * 85 . r'
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1814, page 85, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2437/page/13/
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