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A * hWa £ terU emiflfent Wti iti-40 i ^ dfi ^ i ^^ ; & ^ Apl \^ ^ S forget tfcfe netes ^ iairy - t ^ uft it $ o fi & * Review . With the felfeivihg- % ftlr ^ dt we te-Is ^ n tly pass ( tefri tS ^ B ibgrafy hy 0 f Jer ^ hiy Taylorr
" * His elevation made no change in hi * character , hut only enlargiea the circle of its action and caused it to be better known and more admired . His learning and wisdom and eloquence did laot excite greater reverence than his piety , hurniliiy and charity . He still jdevojtsd to the composition of books ,
fpr the instruction of the world and of J ^ osterity , all the time that he could Spare from the duties of his high station and from his attention to public -Works and private beneficence . At
length , having enjoyed his ecclesiastical dignities and served the church of Ireland , not more than six years , he was stimmoiled to another state by death , on the 13 th of August , in the year I 667 , and was buried in the choir of
the church of E / rornore , which he built « t his own expense . He left three daughters , ' for whom his charity bad suffered him to make only a moderate provision . They had however a rich bequest , in his virtues and bis fame . 4
' Bishop Jeremy Taylor Was one of the corhpletest characters of his day . His person was uncommonly beautiful , his voice . musical , his conversation plea , # am , his address engaging * .:: ' **« To sum up all in a few words ; this ffr&t palate had the good humour of a
gentleman , the eloquence of an orator , lh ^ . fancy of a poe t , the acute ness of a . choohn * n , the profoundness of a phi losopher ^ the wisdom of a counsellor , ^ e sagacity of * prophet , the reason Iff an angel and the piety of u saint /*
^ - * Th © British pulpit is indebted tp Jeremy Taylor , a ore than to any other divine , for its reformation He was iot without some of the faults of his * g < V but he * et an example of excel-I ^ ncics . in the presence of which all ^ xn isheA disappear . He wa $ « the
"bishop of that Diocese ^ at the Visitation at Listtegarvey , " printed in the supplement to the Course of Sermons , vtml * " ;^ ,., ; , 3 § . f J ^ ust * F * c , Ser . j > p , ? o , 2 u »
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Barrow of aii earlier date / fbttt $ uperl «^ ^ a Barrc ^ Wt in tfee force ojF ^ ri Vs , ? > e £ prflf » sipns ujpid above all in the s ^ lendciur tjt his imagery . In so ) ne poinIs ' there' is a great Tes ^ mijtan ce between" thtee ^ two eittineni orators , and on <; remark made bjr . a very competent judge : Ugoii them
both is strikingly just : Wit bout any attempt to preserve the peculiar jTdrm of philosophical investigation > mthout any habit of em ploying the technical language of it , without any immediate consciousness of intention to exhibit their opinions in what is called a philo sophical poin t eff view , their incidental
representations of man in all the vanetiei of hL moral powers and his soqial relations , haye sf rnxich depth , so ^ pupH precision , and so much comprehension , as would have procured tliem inb ' naffltd of phflosophers , if ikef hid rfyiibotm the different and Dot , lc $ * v ^ oixou cgtb k name of Christian teachers . " * ! % Jf P »?^ 77 ^
An account of the fp ^ lier cbn ^ tents of this v < biume we must r ^ w serve to another Nlimber » c , ^ a ^
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Akt . IT . —Z > i ^ . M , < age& $ Qigityurses and Dissertations on Aivn c menp ana Sacrifice * ^ } 1 > r ; s .
( Continued franvp , 424 c ) ^ 3 No method of interior el ing scripture is more cornmoa aaid none more delusive , fchanito read it under the influence bf r ^ irgious opinions which were formed ia early life and have Taever h $ &n made 1 he subjec t * of i m partial-a nid ¦
deliberate reView . The fact : > tp notorious : nor are the-coh $ equances less visibly iillrtfuK ; -1 # this source we may feiriy track much of the sophistry aad ^ arro * - gance , the bitterac ^ and rancourf
b ^ which theplaglc ^ i cantraveusy is frequehtly disgtaced . *• Ouf readers will determine ft how far ' ' 1 1 ' ' ' ¦ ¦ ' \ , ¦ i . ' ^ V " ' i . ' .. ! i ' ,, ^'^ t Birdi ' s life eff f aioftsbn ? 2 ^ * d , 1753 . >^ r ' - V " - "' ¦ " " ' l ^ ¦^ -- ^" Dtr-i ^ rs Spittft Sewwnx . 'W ^ 4-ito . Note » . 1 , 8 ^» *> . : ^ - »
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1814, page 492, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2443/page/44/
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