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Tbere were two circumstances in T ) r . B . Calamy ' s Life from which he could derive no honour . Oae was a Haltering dedication ef his " Discourse about a Doubting Conscience , in 1683 V to Judge Jjefferies , who had already shewn Himself a creature of the court .
The other was bis apparent neglect of Thomas De Laune , who * for answering that Discourse , was condemned to an imprisonment in Newgate , where he died . Dr .
I | . Calamy appears to more ad . vantage in his attentions to Alderman Cornish , giving evidence in his favour on his trial , visiting him in Newgate , and making an Unavailing intercession , with Jef « feries forhis life .
** In reward of his services to the Church of England , Dr C « was admitted in i 683 to the vicarage of St . Lawrence Jewry &c But his preferments only served to mark the vanity of all human expectations , for in the
Autumn of 1685 , his health declined , affected , it is thought , by the course o £ public even " , and he died , of a pleuretic fever , in the month of January > 1686 , being little more than 40 yeais o £ age , P , 234 . *
* The volume of Dr . B . Calamy's sermons has passed through many editions , and is still read and admired . " As a divine he has been mentioned with high approbation by Bishop Burnet ,
Archdeacon Echard , Dean Sherlock , 'who preached his funeral discourse , and Mr . Granger . Dr . C * s . present editor says , " that as a sermon . writer he is
characterized by constant good sense , by sound judgment in the selection of his subjects , simplicity in his plans , and ease , clearness and parity of style . " The sermon here : selected is On Evil Thoughts ^ from Matt . xv . \ $ r y The Seventh sermon occupies
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one hundred pages of thfe vxiluibfe * before us ^ a disproportion of which a reader will not complain , as it i& by Isaac Bakrow , and his admired Spitat-Sermon , t ) n Bounty to the Poory which < c took up three hours and a half in the
delivery . It was received , notwithstanding its length , with universal approbation ^ " and , in Tillotson ' s judgment , " there is nothing extant in divinity more perfect in its kind : it seems to have exhausted
the whole argument , and to have left no consideration belonging ta it untouched . " Our limits will allow only the following quotation : ' * Our good man is not a Doson , or Will-give , ( like that king of Mkcedon ^ who got that name from often
signifying an intention of giving ,, but never giving in effect ;) be not onely purposes well , and promises fairly for the future * but he hath effectually done it , arid perseveres doing it upon every fit occasion . He puts not his . neighbour £ at <* tedious expectations , nor puts him off with frivolous excuses , saying to him .
( as it is in the Proverbs ) fi Ge and come again , and to-morrow I vri \\ give , when he hath it by him : ' he bids him not have patience , or says unto him ,, *!>« -. part in peace , ' when his need is urgent ,
and his pain impatient , when hunger or cold do then pinch him , when skkness incessantly vexeth him , when present straits and burthens oppress him : but he affordeth a ready , « juictc , and seasonable relief .
" * He hath dispersed * an * * given /¦< while he lives , oofr reserving the disi ; posal of all at once upon his death , or by bis last will ; that unwilling will ^ whereby men would seem to gives 6 mcwhat , when they can ketp nothing ; drawing to thernselves those
commendations and thanks , which are oaely due to their mortality ; whenas were , they immortal , they would never be liberal r rio ; it is , *' he hath freely dfc v persed , ' not a « i inevitable necessitfy will " extort it from him j it cannot be sai ^ ' ' of him , that he never does well , but wh « n he dies : so he hath done it realJy
and aurcly * * ' P , 294 . ¦¦ ¦ : ¦* , 1 ¦ . ;'¦ v -i — The reader , if we mistake not ,
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56 ** Review . —British Pufpit Eloquent * .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1814, page 562, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2444/page/38/
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