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will l > e entertained aBd edified by a perusal of tbe Memoir which precedes this sermon . Far the length of it the editor makes an unrecpiired , though sufficient apolc&gy , deeming with Tillotson , that his " author was one of that small
class of incoraparabJe divines ' of whom either not a little , or nothing at all ought to be said . ' " Dr . Barrow died in l 67 J 9 in his 47 th year , and it is remarkable that be is the fourth divine in
this selection who never numbered fifty years , but they remembered that c < tfee night Cometh in which no man } can work /* and were " made perfect * ' in a short time . It would be difficult to name the
scholar and divine whose life and writings , as exhibited in the Memoir before us , afford more proofs tljan those of Dr . Barrow , of the height of excellence to . which the
mind may attain by judicious and unremitting cultivation . We have only room for -the editor ' s com . parison between Barrow and an illustrious predecessor , in the present volume .
" In eomc traits of eloquence , Barrow resembles Jeremy Taylor ; but his beauties and his blemishes are neither of them so striking as those of that father of the British pulpit . Barrow delights in description , but does not attempt personification and the bolder figures
of . rhetoric , of which Jeremy Taylor had so complete a mastery . There is a splendour in Barrow's style , but without those flashes of genius which in Jeremy Taylor so often seize the mind , arid suspend it in astonishment . " * - — fy . £ 84 , 5 .
Dr * Barrow is followed in this sdeeti pa by u John Wii-kin& , typtt it * 1 &L 4 , who , though he attained to one of the highest dig «* -1 lfi i -n . - i ¦ ¦ ' * See our Memoir of Jeremy Tay-
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ni ties in the Gh urcb of England , has been denominated , by friends and foes , a Puritan DiviueJ * On his ordination he became chaplain , to Lord Say , who , with his three
sons , took the part of the Parliament against Charles I . Unlike the divines before-mentioned , Wilkins took both the Covenant and the Engagement :
" But his political predilections did not divert him from his studies : he continued to apply himself closely to the mathematics and natural history 5 and , disdaining to tread in the beaten tracks of philosophy , be struck into the
new road pointed out by the great Lord Bacon ** For the sake of making experiments and discoveries , he promoted a philosophical meeting in London which led eventually to the establish ! raent of the Royal Society . " P . 390 , 1 .
The earliest of this author ' s writings were philosophical . On their appearance they attracted attention . We have now before us printed in 1640 , the third im * pression of * The Discovery of a New World . " These works ars still respected for their ingenuity .
They are also respectable for the devotional turn with which the author concludes his airy speculations . He , however , soon ap * peared before the public m a man * ner more directly suited to his profession . .- ?
During the Protectorate , Dr . Wilkins married the widow of Div French . This lady , whose daughter married Tillotson , was the sister of Cromwell , with whom
Wilkins ventured to plead i 6 in behalf of an episcopal national church . ' On the RestoratioTih soon obtained preferment , and in 1668 was made Bishop of Chester * He promoted the toleration of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1814, page 563, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2444/page/39/
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