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Tlie tlirep period * alluded to are , first the resurrection of Jesus -him * self—se condly , t } ie remuneration of life faithful disciples when Christ shall
appear to judgment—and thirdly , the errand era of the restitution of all things , when God shall put all things under feet , when sin and death shall be destroyed and all mankind shall become virtuous and happy .
The Reviewer also observes , p . 419 , that Mr . Belsham , after Mr . Wakefield , reads the second clause in the text ' John xii . 27 , interrogatively ,
viz . " Now is my soul troubled , and what shall I say ? Father , save me from this hour ? " Not being- very conversant with Mr . WVs translation I did not know that he had read the
clause interrogatively . But I certainly did not borrow it from him , nor take it after him : for the sermon was preached with very little difference in its present form , in March
1789 ; and the punctuation was borrowed from Dr . Doddridge , from whom I suspect that Mr . Wakefiild himself borrovyed , and who might , for any thing that I know , have taken it from one of his learned and pious predecessors , as great critics are apt to do .
T . BELSHAM . P . S . It is a little surprising that the Mon . Itepos . ( p . 382 ) should lend itself to such a gross caricature of the late venerable Mr . Orton , to the falsehood of which there are still
many living witnesses . Mr . Orton . was hospitable , bat not luxurious . In his person he was muscular , but not corpulent . He was cheerful , but not merry \ and least of all a punster . His nerves were shattered by the too copious use of laudanum before
preaching ; from the use of which dr in his latter years , he was stnctly prohibited by his friend and Physician , Dr . Johnstone , of Kidderminster . He was grievously afflicted w « h piles , and therefore not very capable of the exertion attributed to aim .
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surprised and truly « jnotified * to &m \ that the respected Editor hm l > eenya& tlie trouble to bring into notice a . » old ridiculous story respecting Jievu Job Orton . Had you realty vyisbfcd for information , the living witnesses *
Mr . Taylor , of Carter Lane * and Mf * Behhatn , weFe at hand . A more silly , improbable tale is seldom o * £ t with — impracticable , consequently untrue ; the reflections thereon are of a similar character , the insinuations not only false , but totally unlike the individual in question .
That this eminent divine ( though of abstemious habits ) ate and drank , sat at his desk and table , and was removed from the pulpit by nervous indisposition several years previous to his death , is true . That Caryl and Folio , Job and Patience and Aniline :, Folio , Job and Patience and Ang ling ^
are to be found in many a jest booky and that his name may have been coupled witE the Patriarch ' s- by some of his witty or witless contemporaries , is likely enough ; it is probable that he read Caryl and other bulky volumes . The works of the learned Mr .
Perkins , his maternal ancestor ia Queen Elizabeth ' s time , were much esteemed by him : and here permit me to borrow a flourish from your " Plain Speaker "—Mr . Editor , Didst thou ever hear of Perking ? I dare say not .
Whether this author b ^ of Non . Con . extraction , as you intimate * I know not . He no doubt is one of those sublime , clever" spirits , or plain speakers , or writers , with- whom plain truth is in little esteem , or rather their greatest enemy . Thistale was introduced , several months ;
since , into the London Magazine ,, with various other , perhaps equally correct , lucubrations by the same * writer , who , I think , received a suiartt reproof from the conductor of the * said periodical for the flippancy andl want of examination of his ( stated ))
facts . However , he no doubt ( free ^ easy and fearless ) resolved to compose a , book that might sell , and na-Uirally laid hold of such riistinguiahedl characters as Baxter and Orton , to ) shew off what you term , I suppose ,, " his pithy remarks" and " vigorous * 0
style , and to please the prurient ! fancy of his readers by his miserablea wit and egotism . ¦ But JuU Ortow was a r € ^ i * jus& * rf £
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^ Birrn ingh am , vS&mn August . 8 , 1826 . BEING - Anecdotes of Job Or . S of t in * 8 * - in the taMe . of content * J tUe Mon . Repos . for last / taomh , 1 c ° ur » e perused the article , and wa *
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Anecdotes of Job Ortony fyc . 46 J
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1826, page 467, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2551/page/23/
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