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      [ Mr . Hawkes was bom February 10 , 1759 . He received his academical education in part under the Rev- Mr . Robins , at Daventry ; and in part under the Rev . Dr . Aikin , at Warrington . He afterwards continued his theological studies for some time under the direction of the Rev . William Turner , of Wakefield . He first settled as a minister vt Dob-lane , near Manchester , whence he afterwards removed

      to Bolton , where he , for a few years , officiated as assistant to the Rev . Fhilip Holland . About the year 1789 , a number of most respectable and intelligent gentlemen in Manchester , from their high opinion of Mr . Hawkes ' s talents and

      merit , were desirous to have the benefit of his instructions as a minister , and with this view erected the chapel in Mosley Street , at which he continued to preach , from the time it was opened till his death , August the 1 st , 18 ^ 0 , 1

      THE late Mr . Hawkes was so averse from every species of notoriety , not necessarily implied in the discharge of Jiis professional duties , that he was much less generally known , than from his eminent talents might

      have been expected . By his friends , however , he was always highly valued ; and they may now indulge the melan * choly satisfaction of recollecting and recording , as well $ s they are able , those various excellencies of his

      character which , in their opinion , justly entitled him to respect and veneration . The distinguishing faculty of hia understanding was a most clear an 4 vigorous judgment . Thj | s was discovered , npt merely in the cprrectneas

      with which lie wsqnjapinated the various kinds of evidence , and pointed out the nice gracfotiQns by which probability ascends to moral ^ qrtjwnjy , but in particular , t > Jf the , jusjtyess with which he estimated the real value , and marked the relatfjf $ ; importance * of different vol . xv . 4 u

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      truths . * He appeared always to seize and dwell upon those which were most sound , substantial and practical . His mind was more exercised in meditation than hi reading , and hence it was not so much the compass , as the excellence of his knowledge ; not so much its extent , as its selectness , that was admirable . On the subjects which he studied , however , his information was sufficiently ample , and his

      discourses from the pulpit were not less distinguished by the comprehensiveness of view which they discovered , than by the precision with which the truths he proposed to inculcate were stated , anci the unexceptionable nature of the evidence by which they were substantiated .

      The tenor of his preaching was rather moral than doctrinal . On proper occasions he stated and explained his theological opinions ; yet whilst he expressed himself on these subjects with that decision which became his

      powerful understanding , his language never assumed the peremptory tone of controversy , and his mind appeared to be always pure from the slightest taint of intolerance . We may hope , indeed , from the mercy of God , that opinions which from the very first ages of the gospel

      have been matter of perpetual controversy , and respecting the truth of which , men of the greatest learning , acuteness and integrity , continue to form the most opposite conclusions , cannot be of essential importance , either to the present or future happiness of mankind ; and a minister may therefore reasonably be excused , if he

      * Our condition fcad been extreinely miserable . If our final state had been placed on an uncertain hill , and the way to it had been lipoy' tihe waters , upon which no ajplrlt but that of contradiction and discord did ever move . " Jeremy Taylor .

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      No . CLXXXQ DECEMBER , 1820 , [\( oL XV . ¦¦¦¦¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1820, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2495/page/1/