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Apology for University-learning , as necessary to country Preachers : * being an Answer to Mr . Home ' s ( John Home ) Books , wherein he gores all University Learning . " Printed in foL with Sancti Sancitu Fur pro Tribunalu Examen dia-{ oo-ismi , cut inscribitur , " Fur predestinatus . " * Owon . 1657 , 8 vo . De Doctrina Neopelagiana . Oratio habita in Comitiis . Ocoon . 9 July , 1654 . — Twissii Vita et Victoria . De Scientia
Media brevicola Dissertatio in qua Twissii Nomen h , Calumnis Francisci Annati Jesuitce vindieatur . —Dissertatiuncula de novis Actibus sint ne Deo ascribendi ? These two last things are printed , and go with Fur pro Tribunali .
At length , after a great deal of restless agitation carried on for the cause , our author died at Co / ton on the 19 th of August , 1663 , and was buried in the chapel adjoining to his house there ,
leaving then behind him the character of a person well read in polemical divinity ; a ready disputant , a noted preacher , a zealous and forward Presbyterian , but hot-headed , and many times freakish . ( Athen . OwonJ LIGNARIUS .
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allude to the limits which the minister ought to prescribe to himself in his intercourse with the world , Iu the ; determination of this question , the different habits , dispositions and tempers of men will necessarily have great influence . Some are of a cheerful , social turn ; others of a more retired and austere character ; and what appears to the former only an innocent acquiescence in the customs of society , will be deemed by the latter a mark of a light and frivolous mind , and wholly unsuitable to that grave and dignified demeanour which the minister of the
gospel ought on occasions to maintain . " The first suggestion , then , which I shall venture to offer upon this subject is , that we be careful not to put a harsh construction on the conduct of our brother , nor to fancy that because his religion does not wear precisely the same appearance as our own , he is not therefore impressed with a due sense of the
paramount importance of religion , and the awful responsibility which attaches to the discharge of the ministerial functions . To prescribe a general standard of manners and demeanour , the slightest deviation from which shall be regarded as a proof of deficiency in religious feeling , is not more reasonable than to require that all men shall frame their countenances
precisely according to the same model . Religion is not of this exclusive character ; it will combine itself with all tempers and dispositions ; with the lively as well as the sedate ; with the cheerful as well as the grave . " I shall observe , in the second place , that in determining to what extent it is lawful for the Christian minister to mix
in the business or the pleasures of the world , the error against which he should be most careful to guard is excess . When we were admitted into the priesthood , we bound ourselves , if not by an express , yet by an implied promise , to give ourselves wholly to that office whereunto it had pleased God to call us , so that , as ' much
as lay in us , we would apply ourselves wholly to that one thing , and draw all our cares and studies that way . The mode in which we discharge the obligation thus contracted is the criterion by which men of all classes , but especially those in the inferior ranks of life , estimate our sincerity . If , at the very time that we are in our discourses , enlarging upon
the infinite superiority of heavenly to earthly interests , and inculcating the necessity of constant and earnest endeavours to abstract the thoughts from the present scene , and to fix them upon eternity—if , at this very time , we shew in our conduct a restless anxiety for worldly riches and distinction , or an immoderate eagerness in the pursuit of worldly pleasures , can
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The Conclusion of the Bishop of Bristol s Charge to his Clergy . 581
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Bristol , Sir , September 24 , 1821 . DR . KAYE , the new Bishop of Bristol , made his primary Visitation last month , and the Charge delivered on the occasion I have read with great pleasure . The spirit displayed through the whole , is worthy a Christian teacher , and the practical advices
and admonitions addressed to his clergy , such as it would do all Christian ministers good to attend to . The chief of these I have transcribed , and shall be happy to see them placed in the columns of the Repository . E , B .
The conclusion of the Bishop of BristoVs Charge to his Clergy , delivered in < August , 1821 . . I proceed to another topic , the most important perhaps to which your attention can be directed , but , at the same time , the topic on which the greatest variety of opinions is likely to prevail ; I
% This was a dialogue between a cri-HUnal who excuses his crime , on the plea w Predestination , and the judge who is ^> out to sentence him .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1821, page 581, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2505/page/13/
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