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OBITUARY .
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* hvti % Vfry be done without offence $ afe l &tf without afFording any just grou net o f offen ce . For we wish to conduct ourselves , at afl times in the spirit of the jostle ' s acjvice already referred to ; or , in the words ot an a the r apostle , c < in meekness to instruct those wbo oppose themselves - , * ' since , by this , if by any means ,
^ Gpd may give them a change of mind , rto . ifce acknowledgement of the trurru *' 2 T » m- « 25 . The ;* e passagesdnay serve as a directory for the plan of our association , as well Tegarding the principles on which it should be conducted , as the motives which jfocruld animate its members .
First , we rrmst be ready to give a reason for the tovpe that is in us : " in other words , to r defend the evidences , ^ explain the doc trines * and pcint out the sanctions , of the gospel . I Plain and short treatises on the
existence anti perfections of God , on the necessity and advantages © f Revelation , on the Evidences of the Jewish , and especially of the . Christian , Reve ^ latiori , should be provided for distribution by ihe society . Many valuable treatises are found in our libraries on these impoitant subkets ; but they are ,
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RicJtard Reynoldst Esq . * On f 1 > e loth of January * died , ItiCH ~ ari > Rexnolds , E&q of Little Paxton , in the cpunty of Huntingdon , in the 8 / th year of his age ; a gentleman reared by ; fhe neighbourhood for his truly CJuistlan . character , and by the readers of this work , his memory will
bexherished from the long and intimate friendship that subsisted between him and Mr- Lihdsey . . His grandfather was bishop of Lincoln , und his father a dig iutary in that cathedral , and frorn the la « ter he icc ^ fiyccl a sufiicient foityne for "« v .. ' cofapl « 'y gwnitle tpan , tie was admitted earl y a . t ; St . iohn ' s College , Cambridge ; . ari'di . ^ ' . ' Cep . ^ , the peculiar solicitude pf ? ¥ w fatfeVr and . graodfalhcr
. tha ^ 1 ic N ; riiJgbt be ass ^ &te ' d . w »? h a re smecia&le \ fvwR K nian , he became tlje . chum of Mr : tipd ^ i ^ ™ those - early years was , laid the , fidundation of * Ul& ^ sm $ M $ x * &d * m ^ ¦ ' > 'H . » j- t . tl ^ i » - .. C , ' . ' ^ * . ¦ „ . ' J *
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many of them . ^ w ^ ri | % ofng ^ eat reseairck and laming , which the bul ^ of Ch ris - tians have neitfeer the requisite previous information , nor * time , to read wftk advantage * -Other-works- there are of a more popular nature ; but most of these are written ia answer to the
objections of particular writers * whose bold assertions and delusive witticisms it is not worth while to save , by the circulation of replies , however solid , from the oblivion t * which they arc hastening . The labours of the rational friends to the interests of religion in the rising generation may here have a fair and almost open field .
II . The reasons of our hope being thus provided for , we may proceed tcr the hope itself ; or , to the -contents of that scheme of revelatioii which , r * he Lord Jesus Christ has bees ^ cqHyrjM *' ^ ioned to publish in the gospel ; coraprehending , the doctrines which he
taught concerning God * concerning man as the creature and childf ^ ol God , what Cod requires of man c and : wh ^ t ¦ . roan has to expect ^ from God ^ For all , this is included in . ** the hope rfhat is ^ in hiro , ' * of which every on « is required 44 to give a reason . . " . - - ( To ibe concluded > i % ouv ^ ne&t . ) -
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uninterrupted during their joint fivjej . On quitting Cbltegj& he" l \ ved a slior ^ tirric with his father / and was taik < 6 n by Lord Sandwich , pur mmistef plenipotentiary , as his private secrc ? tarj- to Aix la Chapelle , arid he probably is the las £ surviver of the diplomatic characters t hat cnti red the great room in that city , to confer on the celebrated treajt y orx certain ( fays of ceremony . ^ Wis taste
was not , however , for public life , and as he had sufficient fortune to live independent , he preferred the situation of a country genttemati , in . which he performed the duties of a . magistrate of the county , and wa $ at all times the advocate for its liberty arid independence . His political principles >* ere similar to those of Dr . Jebb and Mr .
WyviH , with whom he acted in concert ^ i all ih&it m ^ asui ^ s fot Parlirnentary Keterihn , art object of ^ reat &Iicjtufti to him troni % i $ firpi cdfivic ^ iort t > t tfxp
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1814, page 132, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2437/page/60/
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