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    ^ is abqve all . Jus works , ' aj *< J abara a ^ U ours , greater than the creatien ^ and mater than biir Bids . ** P » 60 .

    The biography , which intro-Jtices this sermon , will be found , We think , peculiarly worthy of perusal . The following are the editor ' s observations on a remarkable occurrence in the preacher ' s eajrjyJiJG :

    <^ At Oxford , Taylors talent * and vorih secu red general love and a d m irsAiaiiv It is perhaps a proof of this that some eaigefc proselytists of the Romtsh ^ Dmtrmnion sought to convert him tOh | K > J * fy * . ; J ^ Qt unwisely was it judged , qn& } itiie before in the case of

    Chillirl ^^ oiirth , 'Wat &uch a man would be ita ^ dmSffreynt'tb a religious party . Some bave Supposed that for a time Taylor lyaveifid in his faith , and . tjbe opinion is Tendered n ^ t irnjprobable by the welliictawri warnith of fiis Imagination and Jer * 6 ur £ > f hh ^ trotion , tfabits of mind -mth ; stitch the solemn mysteries and ^ he splendid ceremonial of the Romish

    fhwffSi ^ matf $ e thought congenial , and al ^ o Tby ^ the peculiar state of the religious world at that period , when it seenie ^ unavoidable that a thinking irnari should lean to popery on the one ^ p 6 f ^ pSMtainistti on the other . TCe 1 iiMo * iar { of " our English Athens

    ^^ i ^ 0 tevknC 6 to the opinion , and » pS ^ ihfcr ^ it from Taylor ' s inti-$ gte : i £ 0 Lai # zancp with Fr . A S . Clara , ^^ omi ^ n priest 5 acfrcunisUince which |^ ff y ^ n ^ icat : es only liis charitable temfpt * % \ $$ jwfiijch M itself is no more a > r $$ t ^ ffi . his swerving from Protest-| Stisra » tlfew > the impartiality and abiffl y yfkti ^ Wch he has in one of the « $#£ qejeluate ^ t of his works stated trie' ar « Kumeht " of the mis-named

    Anal ^ ptBjtsl ^ is aji f evidence , as has been |^ y ^ CQpjectMred , V 6 f ht > being of their p ^ s ^ sio ^ t v " Bi » t whatever temporary y /> ut > t ^ : P ' r * # yliave disturbed his mind , it is , Wuin that he nevei left the & 9 * t ^ ran t ^ raith , an 4 that after a very J ^ o ) c ^ > 4 me at least and fcr the whole & ( & * W ^ ¦ ¦ , ¦ i " ^ ^— - ^ ' ' ¦ ' ' ' ' ¦ ' r —«

    " ^^ Wabd / AtHen Oxon- Vol . II k ) -: X . v :.- ; , ¦ - . ; - -r .: ¦ .: ¦> \ ¦;¦¦ « i ; . - ;" - . ¦; : ; - .

    fcve ^ oAor The Liberty o ^ Piophesyin ^ g . 4 to Sect xviii . p . 223 , & ; c .

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    ojF his H % ibllowing Jhc ,- € ? oii $ f < fe « l 4 ! ll as tl ) c purest system of Chriktian 4 pc ^ trm £ Few wtiters have riefe&d e ^ ' it

    with more wisdoirt " 5 hone hare

    It was little to be expected tha | the protege of Laz / rf and the , feyouriie chaplain of Charles ^ sb ould | have understood and defended the rights of consci « nfce and religioii # profession better than almost . j& $ M

    nonconformist of hi «^ Bge , oVfWl--have even anticipated hocke ^ nn Toleration by half a centory . Y ^ such was the Liberty of "Pr &j ' ^ B sy wg * ^ ' . publUJieS'A . in ^ i ^ j ^ On the subject of tWs work ^ be editor thus happily remarks ; ^ ' ^

    € l A more bold or successful assertxM and defence of Ghrisdan liberty- ^ a ^ never made * It gave great dffetiele 61 the Presbyterian party at the tirw of its appearance ^ and has since been some * times reflected on by menibers ' 62 tfc 6 Churchi of England , amongst irhom

    writers have been found to suggest that Taylor was not sincere in his argument but handled it * to weaken Presliytery ^' by introducing distractions amongst its partizans . J . Happily for his rtpatiafr tion , this sinister interpretation is

    justified neither by the work itself nor hf the author ' s language and conduct wheij he was no longer one of a vanquished party : in the episcopal chair in Ttd * land , as well as in his obscure retreat in Wales he is equally the advocate of ch arity , peace and freedom . " jj Pp ; 74 , 7 ^

    X " Lloyd ' s Mem . p . 703 . W ^ cwit A then- Oxon , Vol . 1 I # p . 234 . l Sit P . Warwick , in his Memoiies of Charles I . thinks it fit to deny that the king

    had" given that countenance to Dr . Taylor ' s Lib . of Prbpb . which some believed he had / " and the editor oftht new edition of this work [ Edinburgh * 1813 . 6 vo , p . 337 > iVd ( e , 3 tak e * up the notion of the ifmdjoiisnefs of its qc-¦¦ ¦

    sign . * ¦ : i - > i * ¦ - •' - - > •¦•/ JJ *« For ji proof of dii ^ ( ht reader h referred to - * Rulcs ? aad Advices t # the Clergy of the , t > ioccsc of Down and Connor , &c , given by Jeremy Taylor ,

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    Review . —British Pnlpif Eloquence . 451

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1814, page 491, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2443/page/43/