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Islington , Sir , Feb . 1 st , 1824 . ' VOLUME of Sermons by the A late Rev . T . N . Toller has just
aj > peared ,= to vvhieh a Memoir of the Author by Robert Hall , A ; M . is prefixed . The Discourses afe , as might be ekpeeted , truly ekeeftfent , aad the Memoir renders clue honour to the
preacher ' s memory . But whilst the biographer extols the intellectual and moral worth of Mr . Toller , he seems anxious to have it understood that from whatever source his eminence as a Christian divine may have arisen , none can have beeii derived from the
institution where he was educated for the ministry . The tutors , indeed , receive a large portion of his praise . " At the early age of fifteen his
parents sent him to * the Academy at Davfentry , in Northamptonshire , over which Dr . Ashworth , the worthy successor of the celebrated Doddridge , presided ; his assistant in the Academy was the Rev . Mr . Robins * who
afterwards occupied the same station with distinguished ability ! Of both his tutors lie was woht to speak in terms of high respect : of Mri Robins he was often heard to say , that hie considered linn as the wisest and best maa he
ever knew . The qualities of his heart corresponded to those of his genius ^ and though long * before his death his bodily infirmities obliged him to relinquish ) a commanding station and retire iiito obscurity , he retained to . the last such an ascendanc y * Over the jwinds of his former pupils ,, ami such
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aii interest ih ^ tlieitf affections , as nothing btitt yvbrth of the highest order can command . * Under tiitors ^ likfe these , the studies of the pupilstntist beentightly directed / and whilst understandings vvere stored with choicest treasures of learning " ,
have their the have their the
their minds would be trained to the purest emotions of piety . But ; no ^—just the ettotrary * Every thing seems wrong 5 the system of tuition is rotten at the core ; for the young men l £ ft the Academy with views hostile to the
'' principles generally embraced * ' bi modern orthodoxy . But Jet Mr . HAt , ii speak for himself , not forgetting Ms own account of the very superior eftdo wments of the tutors , which must have admirably fitted them for their
station . : ^ "At the time of Mr . Toller ' s adinission into the Daventry Academy , the literary reputation of that seminary was higher than that of any arnong the Dissenters ; but partly owing ^ to a laxness in the terms of
admission , and partly to the admixture-of lay and divinity students , combined with the mode in which theology was taught , erroneous principles prevailed much , and the majority of such as were educated there , became morie distinguished for their learning than for the fervour of their piety or the
purity of their doctrine . The celebrated Priest let / speaks of the state of the Academy while he resided there with great complacency : nothing , he assures us , could be more favourable to free inquiry , since both the tutors and students were about equally divided between the Orthodox and Arian
systems ! The arguments by which every possible modification of error is attempted to be supported , were carefully marshalled in hostile array against the principles generally embraced , while the theological professor prided himself on the steady impartiality with which he held the balance betwixt the
contending systems , seldom or never interposing * his own opinion , and still less betraying the slightest emotion of antipathy to error or predilection for truth . Thus a spirit of
indifference to all religious principles w&s generated in the first instance , "which naturally- paved the way for the prompt reception of doctrines indulgent to ' the fcorniptidn and flattering ip the prijleof a depraved aad fallen
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• As it will be necessary , in order to satisfy the law , that there should be 5 < xme notes m such a wiork , they should be iio more than what the law demands , that the price of the work
Hcfratey ' s ^ Sermonis , Vol . HI . pp . v € * ~ ' £% ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ '' ¦ " . ' ¦ ¦ - ' ¦ ¦ ¦ f > * ¦ ¦ -, ¦ ¦> , - ¦ ¦¦ '¦ ¦ ' ¦ r ¦¦<< ¦•¦ —rxy ^ - - ¦ , . »> -. ¦ . . . . • • So Dr ^ Watts s ay s , " It had been mack better if the Hebrew name jfeho ? &h itself had been always written in the English Bibles ; ^ Dr . Watts ' s Glory of Christ , &c . p . 2 .
l ) e not needlessly increased . The notes should relate to the text , and not illustrations of the pure text . And tiieyj should be ¦ taken from the most learned and accredited authors . If it
was published" in numbers it would promote thfe s ^ le . J . JEVANS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1824, page 83, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2521/page/19/
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