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Dissenters * and discovered , as a senator , an nuh p < nck-nt spirit . f « Whilst he was purftuner this truly Christian career of independence and charity , and was in pei feet health n all other respects , * a known infirmicy , from an unknown Ciuse , twat had been easier to cure than it was to di ^ cover ,
* tole upon him ami soon became hxu Tabled * He languished for some days , during which he v \ as visited by his distinguished friends , !* who found him Sensible of the approach of death but neither surprised nor dismayed ,
main-$ aining serenity of mind and decency of behaviour , an . expressing his cheerful fcopes of eternity , and expired , at Dr . Tillotsorfs house , in Chancery Lane , ^ London on the 19 th of November , 16 ? S . " P . 3 Q 8 , 0 .
The Sermon of Bishop Wilkins here selected is , on Hope of fieward a proper Christian Motive , from Heb . xi . 26 . In the Editor ' s opinion , c 4 bis sermons are plain , artless , judicious ; designed rather for the understandings than the affections of his hearers , '
, ; The fith and concluding Sermon in this Selection is , on The difference of Times i » ith respect to Religion ; from Ps . xcv . 7 * by Benjamin Whichcot , the friend of Tillotson , whose Funeral
§ termon has supplied the principal materials to the present biographer . € iJDr * W . published nothing . He was an extempore preacher , and the volumes that bear his
: < - ? * Dr . Lloyd's Funeral Sermon , ut ¦ Up . pp 31 , 32 . ' ... v > > f « Not many months after the dcafh qi Mr , Willowghby , Mr . Ray lost another of his best friends , Bishop Wilfcine ; whom he visited in London , on
November the ] 8 th > 1672 , and found him near death , by a total suppression of urine for eight days ; and the next morning , Nov . 19 , about foiir of the Clock , that great man died , to Mr . Ray's unspeakable loss and grief 9 as he express-9 & k . Select Renupia pi lUy , ui « zp .
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name are compiled from his short manuscript notes , and from the papers of short-hand writers who attended his church and took down
his notes . ' One volume has a Preface now known to have beea written by the noble Author of the Characteristics ^ and lor which the Earl has been deemed by many , a sceptic rather than an unbeliever * ' Dr . VVhichcot closed a useful
and happy life by a calm and Christian death , in the year 1683 | and the 73 d of his age . ' ' From the impartiality obseTved on the incidental mention of questions between Conformists and Nonconformists , in these biographies , it were difficult to guess to which class this anonymous Editor belongs . It is , however , remarkable that the preachers were all Conformists * Some divines of
the Separation will doubtless appear in a Second Volume , which , we trust , the editor will have en * couragement arid inclination speedily to publish . A work like the present must have been often de *
sired by persons of religious cariosity . Such will find an agreeable variety in the sermons selected , while the biographical introduce tions bring before them the preachers in connection with many of tbeir
contemporaries * who were learned and pit us , but not remarkable for pulpit eloquence . Here , as on every occasion , is seen bow a-chf ©* nological order of biography «»• eels the alphabetical .
Since the art of writing with tolerable correctness has be ^ n common , it is to be iegretted , for th # sake of a reader s valuable time , that the art of dhcreeity bl&i * i * g has been so little cultivated . W < think the present Editor has avoidea th ( T fitfitf " of l > rol&if
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Sfi 4 Review . —British Tulpit Eloquence ; ¦^ 7 ' . - ¦ - ¦ ¦< ^ . r * » ¦
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1814, page 564, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2444/page/40/
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