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ieutSotf * and completely engaging the affections , © f his readers , he adds those dovotional aad religious qualities , which render his volumes highly useful as well as captivating . In this view , Ifelon ' s Pilgrimage is the first
and noblest production of its class . We must express our gratitude that it has been rendered accessible to our countrymen ; it well merits a place in the libraries of families to whom knowledge and religion are dear , and who have the means and the desire
of purchasing books that minister to objects infinitely transcending the amusement of the hour * N .
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Art . II . —On the Observance of the LorcPs-day , a Sermon preached at Brtdport . By G , Barker Wawne , from Mark ii . 27 . Sold by C Fox and Co-, High Street , Whitechapel * London . Price 3 d . flT ^ HE interesting Sermon which 1- bears this title is calculated , from its merit and cheapness , for very ge-
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1826 . March 10 , at Lewes , the place of his nativity , aged 78 years , Ebenezer . Johnston , Esq ., formerly of Bishopsgate Street , London , and Stoke-Newington . He was the son of eminently religious parents , the Rev . Ebenezer Johnston , of Lewes , and Mary his wife . These excellent persons employed incessant care
by times to season his mind , and the minds of their other children , with a sense of the unequalled importance of religion , and to train them up in the practical knowledge of the obligations of the gospel . In Mr , Horsiield ' s History of Lewes , p . 303 and the note , there may be seen some brief account of she Rev »
Ebeuezer Johnston , which was quoted iu the Monthly Repository , XIX . 281 . To this may be added , that his first settlement as a minister was at Ryegate , in Surrey , when Mr . Mason , the author of the excellent Treatise on Self-Knowledge , resided at Dorking , as the pastor of the
then Dissenting congregation there j betvyeen whom and Mr . Johnston , much his junior , subsisted an intimate friendship and intercourse , which , doubtless , were beneficial to the latter in many reacts . Atttie termination of a year , or of ivvo years at naost , Mr .-Johuston removed to Lewes , the only situation in which fee
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neral djircufetioo . Its appearance was rendered tnore particularly desirable in the authors neighbourhood from the publication of a discourse by tke
Rev . Mr . Bishop , of Ringwodd , in which the character and practices of Unitarians , with regard "to the observance of the Lord ' s-day , are made the subject of severe animadversion . We think this Sermoa answers the end
proposed , of pointing out the true grounds for the religious observance of this day . Without insisting on that sabbatical strictness observed by some Christians , which too nearly resetn * . bles the Pharisaical opinions
reprebended by our Lord in the text , he still earnestly maintains with Our Saviour , that the Sabbath was made for man . He dwells at considerable length on the advantages which accrue to the health and comfort of mankind from
rescuing one day in seven from the thraldom of unvarying toil , and powerfully and beautifully shews the necessity of this appointment to promote the moral and spiritual improvement of the human race .
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afterwards exercised his stated ministry ; at which place Mr . Mason , as the writer thinks , assisted af his ordination , in conjunction with Dr . David Jennings , Dr . Doddridge , Mr . Snashall , of Stoke-New ingtoii , and other respectable ministers ,
particularly Mr . Johnston ' s elder brother , the Rev . Wm . Johnston , who died at Tunbridge Wells * where , for many years , he filled the office of a Christian minister , well known and truly estimable for Ma knowledge , piety and benevolence .
Though the person who is the chief subject of this brief memoir , ( which , from certain unfavourable circumstances , must be drawn up with less accuracy and fulness than could be wished , ) saw reason , as the result of reading , conversation and serious inquiry , to adopt views of the doctrines of Christianity different from some of those in which he had
been early instructed , he never lost * he < ever cherished , thai pious aaid devotional spirit which his parents had exemplified and inculcated . To his care , in this important respect , Ms frequent . suggestions in conversation his religions exercises in his family , and a diary he has left behind him , hare borne and bear aw edifying testimony . — He was twice married . His first wife died a few years after their
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Obituary o ~* ° » Ehenezer Johnston ? E $ q * 297 i -- " ' ~ \ \ _ \
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1826, page 297, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2548/page/45/
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