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    not go : tins pen < h-opt ; and no chapter is t 6 be fou&d itt his wofk , In which an attempt is made to defeiid insincerity in the worship of Almighty God , *< The appeal is made to every pious parent , and to every ingenuous yduth , Whether the taking of oaths which are not

    to be observed , and the subscription to articles which are not believed , as the first step of a preparation for the Christian niiiiistry , would not be succeeded , as its second step , by joining- in the worship of God with ^ lying lips ; and whether such a repetition of sounds -can be called the worship of God at all . " P . x .

    . Every enlightened mind will take pleasure in the author ' s benevolent speculations with regard to the progress of •* " pure and undented religion . " " The return of peace ; the general cirdilation-of the Bible and the extension of

    the ability to read it ; the recognition and the bringing into exercise of many general principles , which in former ages were only occasionally discerned , and soon obscured by the clouds of ignorance and prejudice ,

    arc most auspicious circumstances ; and in the midst of so much enthusiasm , superstition and bigotry on the . one side , and indifference on the other , ^ -re highly consolatotf and gfrateful to the feeling- mind . "' * There is a rotation of intellectual

    taste , as well af of outward fashion . The attributes of God ; the character of his administration j the everlasting state of mankind y the tefeatift of obtaining and enjoying that felicity for which Ood has desigtied us 5 the obligations of religious

    integrity > and Christian humility and charity ; in a word , the science of religion and morals „ with a view to its practical application , -will not , in every perjod of the world , be considered as the least important of all the subjects which can employ the attention of the human mind / ' P . xvi .

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    jLVLT / tlir-r-The History and Antiquities « Vi * ' a' fit 2 Cr * of Dissenting Churcnesp cSTc . [ Continued from p . 29 « . ] ATHAMEL ilAtoNE ^ , P . D . Nis one of the few name * of which all the Dissenters make their boast .

    A full account of him is here given from the memoirs already existing . Jt is a circumstance not generally kno wn * says Mr . Wilson , I . 91 , that he commenced his stated labours in the ministry at an ancient meeting-! house in Hoxton Square . Hero he preached for a few years as assistant to fiis father ^ Mr . Richard liardner .

    " In the year 1767 , Dr . Latdner , in conjunction with the Rev . Caleb Flemings , v * tis * d tot publication wiaiatroducetj with

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    a preface , a posthumous tract of Mr . Th « nas Moore , entitled , < An Inquiry into the Nature of our Saviottr ' j Agony in the Garden/—Mr . Moore was a woollen - draper in Holywell Street , Strand ; a thinking , man and studious irf the scriptures . Ttie design of nis pamphlet is to

    account for our Lord ' s agony , from ih * series of cv&nf * which befel bhu chirifcg the latter part of hid mitttBtry , without supposing it to have been the result of any preternatural inflictions / " Pp « 103 ^ 104 ; and note .

    We take notice of this tract in order to suggest that if any person possessing it will entrust it to our care by means Ol our publishers , we will cause it to

    be re-pnnted . There ie a' sermon , ajso , on the same subject , which we beg leave to inquire after , with the same view : the following character of it and of the author is taken from

    JVakefidd ' s Evidences of Christianity , 2 nd edit . 8 vo . 1 793 , pp . 136 , 137 : — " But I forbear to enlarge on thistubject of our Lord ' s agbny , because it has been discussed with tnuch good sense * and pdrspicuitjr , by nay venerable friend , the Rev . Timothy ff ylde , late

    master of the jree-scfiool in Nottingham ^ in a sermon preached almost sixty ^ three years ago at that p lace , upon . flllatt . xxvi . 39 , * from which I shall q « ote the three reasons assigned for this ex-, traordinary emotion of our Saviour : 4 t 1 . The first ground of * Christ ' s fm and agony I shall rnentiort , is his knowing Ieforeftaild ' the patticiilar circumstances of his t 6 ri » ent and death .

    ' 2 . Another reason of our Saviour ' s fear and disorder was , the remarkable severity of his sufferings , and the miny circumstances of cruelty with which his death was attended . ** 3 . The only other reason I assign for our Saviour ' s fear of death ( and what I principally rely on ) , is his sense of the important consequences which depended on his dying well . " Thus far this intelWrtt preacher , who reasons on each or these propositions in & rational , convincing and instructive manlier . "

    Td return \ o the History : Mr . WUedh having given an accoMrtt of th £ piibltdaAiori of Dr . LaVrfrifeVV £$ m m iMfygos , drops a reftection which w ^ cannot pass ov £ r ; 1

    ¦" * " Tlie A ^ tlior is & \\ al ive , and K * s tbe fall enjoym «^ <* f hi * intelleet . 5 ^ i & ' treme olfl a ^ e . TOe seimoi * . Well « fc * rf ^ rc-publie » tioii . J '

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    ft * Kev&m . ~ Witoin ' s LHssdnting C&wches .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1816, page 342, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2453/page/34/