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stowed . In the sarrie year he removed with his flourishing academy to Bow , in Middlesex , to a house and situation in every respect suitable to his purpose . In consequence of his acceptance of
the office of pastor to the congregation of Monk well Street , which had always been distinguished for its liberality , he became a manager of the Presbyterian Fund , to which it ; has annually contributed : and not long after , viz . 1787 , he was elected one of Dr . Williarns's
trustees . To both these institutions he was much attached , and he devoted to them as much of his time and attention as his numerous engagements would allow . Those who still survive
and who always found him a lively and cheerful as well as an useful coadjutor and associate , will recollect the hours which they spent with him in those societies with a mixture of pleasure and regret .
The following list of Dr . Lindsay ' s publications is affixed to the Sermon and Address : " 1 . A Sermon preached at Monk wellstreet Meeting-house , Oct . 16 , 1796 , on occasion of the Death of Dr . James
Fordyce , formerly Pastor of the Congregation worshiping in that place , who died at Bath , October 1 st , aged 76 . " 2 . A Sermon occasioned by the Death of the Rev . Joseph Towers , LL . D . delivered at Newington Green , June 2 , 1799 ; to which is added the Oration , delivered at his Interment , by the Rev . T . Jervis .
3 . A Sermon on the Influence of Religious Knowledge , as tending to produce a gradual Improvement in the Social State , preached at the Meeting-house , Monkwell Street , on the 3 d of January ,
1813 , for the Benefit of the Royal Lancasterian Institution , established in the Wards of Aldersgate , Bassishaw , Coieman Street and Crippiegate , in the City of London ; and the Parish of St . Luke , Middlesex . [ Mon . Ilepos . VIIL 412 . ]
' 4 . A Sermon preached at the Meeting-house , Salters' Hall , Cannon Street , on the 8 th August , 1813 , on the Death of the Rev . Hugh Worthington , in the fortieth Year of his Ministry in that place . With Explanatory Notes . [ Mon . ttepos . IX . 704 J
. ' 5 . A Sermon preached at the Meetwg-house , Monkwell Street , on the 9 th ™ November , 1817 , being the first Sunday after the lamented Death of the Princess Charlotte Augusta . " 6- A Sermon on the Advances in AnowJedge , Freedom and Morals , from
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the Reformation to the present Times ; preached to Young People at the Meeting-house in Monkwell Street , on the 4 th of January , 1818 . [ Mon . Repos . Xlll . 522 . ]
" 7 . Sermons on various Subjects , 1 vol . 8 vo . 1819 . [ Mon . Repos . XV . 37—44 . " ] 8 . Also printed , but not published , an Oration , delivered at the Library ,
Red-Cross Street , February 7 , 1816 , being the Centenary of the Founder's Death . " [ Inserted Mon . Repos . XI . 309—314 . ] To these should be added : " A Sermon preached at St . Thomas ' s , January 1 , 1788 , for the Benefit of the Charity School , in Gravel Lane , Southward By James Lindsay , A . M . Printed at the Request of the Managers . Goldney , Paternoster Row . " It is designed to giye to the public another volume of Dr . Lindsay ' s
Sermons , with a Memoir and Portrait . In his theological opinions Dr . Lindsay is described by Dr . Rees as agreeing upon the whole with the late Dr . Price .
Those who constantly attended his ministry were instructed and impressed by his clear statement and powerful enforcement of practical truth . None of them could be at a loss to know that his
sentiments did not agree with some of those which were held by persons who , in modern times , have assumed the appellation of Unitarians , and more especially such as concerned the person of Christ and the efficacy of his mediation : they must be well apprized , that while he asserted . and maintained the unity of
God , and admitted only one object of religious worship , he believed the preexistent dignity of Jesus Christ ; and thought him degraded by those who considered him as a mere man ; and that he ascribed offices and powers to him
under the Christian dispensation , which , in his judgment , constituted in part the excellence and value of Christianity , and which contributed to render it peculiarly important and interesting to mankind . " Pp . 26 , 27 . The term degraded may seem to
some readers to convey more than we apprehend the venerable preacher meant , and more than would be correct in reference to Dr . Lindsay ' s opinions . His Arianism could not have been of a very high or rigid kind , since he was for some years previous to his death a member of the Unitarian Society for the Distribution of Books . But Dr . Rees has added u note to the
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Review . —Dr . Reel ' s Sermon on the Death of Dr . Lin&say . 237
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1821, page 237, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2499/page/45/
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