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must again sajr , that , in these respects , it was surpassed by Warringtoa * if not by the seminary which Coward ' s Trustees maintained « t Hoxton . Of Darentry the noble and almost unritaHfcd xKstinctioh wa ^ , that
Ideology , Metaphy ^ fi and Ethics , < $ & # What studies so important ?) were ta « gbfcfirt > sl ; accurately and Wboritfiisly , &n # irftfi thai impartiality winch fe honoured fay Ivtr . Hall ' s censures and co mb inations . As the consequence , a lar # e portion qf valuable knowledge was , communicated to the pupils , wkcy ^ e industry * in availing thetoselvel of their advantages , and whose
firmness and charity in professing what they severally esfcefe * n 6 d as truth , httve rarely been surpassed . ' - But the author of the merabir assumes the existence of '** a laxness in the terms of admission" at the
Dagentry Academy , and is desirous of tracing back to this cause an eiffect alike imaginary . Was u JSi& Toller ' s adiriisfeteft" owing tostych < € $ laxness" I Clearly not : and we will
venture to declare , that in the majority of other instances the charge cannot be substantiated . Most of the students did credit to their profession , their patrons and their tutors . To
say that ml were of this character , ^^ voiild bfe affirming t $ fr tfmch : " bui where is the seminary , in which no such exceptions have been found ? In Mr . Hull ' s jud&hiterit , the effect *
that be assumes , was further owing " partly to the adtaixture of lay and divinity studeiits . " Had he reasoned on this fact , hid arguments should have been met with arguments : but
he Contents himself with assertion : U > which therefore our own shall be opposed . We passed fbtlr happy years ill the Acadatay at Daventrjh during that tfctit ^ the ntimbei * of its pupib Wtts ibtgW th ^ Ak ttt tm tfottkier period :
atttf Witli m his ^ ry We tote Hot perhaps &&& conversant than the biographer Off Mr . tbllet . No # Wfe scrdp l ^ iiot tt > tohy , thai , taken altogether , the adirtixture of lay and divinity 6 tudento ^ Wias ^ tremely serviceable to
* When the writer of this article entcrpd the Academy at Dav ^ ntry , Mr . Robias , who had for , Home years * Retired from Ins office ia It * observed to Jiiift * tfo * % '' perhaps iim no seminary wafe business more itgulcirly and sttadily pu ^ ued / 1
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individual character , to religious prinetjpfe , and to the interests of Protestatit Nonconformity . Such , moreover , it lias' been ia t # o Dissenting coUeges besides , with which pur experience and observation hare brought
us acquainted . It is true , no human arrangements can be completely successful , no human advantages * perfectly ijnalk > yed : and , here again , it ? ' would be affirming too much" to maintain that in a few cases real inconvenience and evil < lid not result
froto the fcOrthexion , What vye mean to dfeclate , advisedly and distinctl y * is , that in the great majority of instances the admixture was a mutual and a solid benefit , that , as the consequence , nearly all the lay students
evinced , through future life , an enli £ ht&neil , a cordial , and honourable attachment to the Dissenting cause , while the divinity students ft ) und in that class of the pupite whom Mr . H . proscribes , m&ny virtudus and steady friends , not only of their youth , but
of their succeeding years . * Whither indefed shall tie sbns of Wealthy , and , let us add , of consistent Noniconfortalstis be fcerit for the higher branched ct education ; where shall they eojoy the benefits of such instruction , com * , bined \ Vith domestic vigilance , if they be excluded from seminaries , which ,
at the same time , receive candidates for the ministry ? The admixture existed long before the Academy at Daventry ; long befbre tlfe days of Jennings and of Doddridj | fe * - -afta vv ^ b never regarded , by welMnfoftafed n ^ en ^ as unfavourable eithiir to fervour of piety or to purity of doctrine . ^
Mr . TVs Biographer goes on to cbm T plain of ** the mode in which theology was taught' * at Daventry . 1 ft * e tutor in that department , it seeing did not impose his own opinions upon his pupils : and hence , according to the writer before us , * erroneous prind * pies prevailed much . " If this wa 3 rfe ^ tliy the case , we mtil ^ xcl ai ui , €€ Effect unhappy from a noble cause V
. i , - i ' - -1 ¦ -- ¦ * - ¦ <¦ - ¦ - ¦ -i * t , '' [• - . ' ... * ¦ i * jj ' . ¦ ¦ i * ' ¦ - ' * On ^ sti ch bdoved , honoured friend the writer of the presfent artide found pre-eihitoentfy in the late Saml . Pett , M . D . <* , — grat 4 semper quem mente recordor . " t Kippis ' s Life of Ddddiidg ^ p % . lxi&L Isrxii .
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230 Review . — -Memok tif the Bev . T . N . Toller *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1824, page 230, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2523/page/38/
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