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    of a true disciple of his Saviour 2 It was the great object of the ministerial labours of Mr .

    Buckminster , to produce under the influence of these views , the practical religion of the heart and life , as it is explained in the teaching and illustrated in the example of our

    Saviour , How near this purpose was to his heart , is very strikingly displayed in the closing passage of a sermon in his posthumous volume on the mutual influence of

    knowledge , piety and charity * *• It is the constant object of my wishes and prayers , and may it be the effect of my preaching , under the blessing of God , to contribute to 4 he formation of that noblest of

    characters , * the Christian , whose love , as the apostle describes it , abounds more and more in know , ledge and in all judgment , who approves the things which are exfcfellent , and who remains sincere

    and without offence till the day of Christ , being filled with the fruits of righteousness , which are by Jesih Christ , unto the glory and praise of God . " These are the ^ brds with which he closed his eartbly'labours in the desk of

    instruction . His people bear him witfl < 6 ss now : and , will hereafter , if ^ accounted worthy , be&r him witness before the tbrone of God , that all his preaching justified this declaration , and all his life harmonized with this prayer *

    e ; It is impossible , that a man , tvho entertained such views of the nature of religion ^ should be exclusive or intolerant . Mr . Buckminster was eminently charitable towards those who differed from

    him on speculative points . He felt with all who have had opportunities of extensively observing the human character ^ that great

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    errors of the understanding , on at most every subject , an consist ^ with uprightness of heart . How indeed can any one fail to acknow . ledge , that this may be $ > o in rtligion , who remembers , that e * en

    the disciples of our Lord were confessedly full of prejudice and misapprehension , before their Mas . ter ' s death ? Mr . Buckminster could extend his affection towards good men of every sect and com . munion . He could acknowledge in a Fenelon , with all his zeal for

    transubstantiation and Papal in . fallibility , one of the purest and most lovely exemplifications of the Christian character , which the world has seen since the days of

    the apostle John . He did not , however ^ conceive , that any part bf his or any other man ' s goodness consisted in , or was necessarily connected withr , > his errors . He

    was , therefore , a < steady opposer of what he believed to be the cor . ruptions of Christianity ; not only because the gospel is rendered incredible by them to so many

    intelligent men , but because they ksr sen , in the minds of many good persons , that joy and peace ^ in believing , which the r ^ Lrgion of Christ is fitted and intended to

    communicate * No formal description has-been attempted of the qualities of Mr . Buckminster ' s heart . A life of

    such uniform purity and rectitude , of such devotedness to God , of such disinterested zeal for the good of mankind , is the surest pledge of its soundness and its sensibility .

    C I might speak , " says his biographer , « of his perfect sincerity , his simplicity , his love of truth , his candour of disposition . 1 might remark , how little the unbounded admiration he received , impaired any of the essential fea *

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    730 Memoir of the Rev . X S . BucJcminster .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1814, page 730, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2447/page/2/