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% &&& * && > T&col \ ectiion of there being more fern one joint , or rather part ^ f a j oin t of meat brought to table at one dinner , of which he partook with moderation . Our drink , to the
best of my recollection , was mild malt liquor , which he also took but a moderate share of . There were no spirituous liquors nor wines in general , that I remember , appeared there . Indeed . such * things were then used very sparingly by our gentry in
the country , and especially among religious people ; and , permit me to add , that I strongly suspect that it would perhaps have been to the temporal and moral benefit of their children if they had more perfectly , in this respect , followed their example . Mr . Orton was tali and of a rather
spare habit , and had not the least appearance of a free liver . He often rode out on horseback in the morning " , sometimes walked in the churchyard , which was very near his home , stood high , and had a good walk round it . There I have had the
honour to walk with him and receive good instruction from him : and he often , in the afternoon , walked to-the Rev . Benjamin Fawcett's , which was a pretty good walk for an old man ; and in going , or on his return , would call for a minute or two at the
window of Dr . Johns tone ' s library to speak to him . So that he took as much exercise as could be expected by so infirm and low-spirited a person . Though he was tall he walked very upright and steady , as though little or nothing had been the matter with him . He did not like to see
young men move slowly along . The accounts that Mr . Palmer and Dr . Johnstone have both given of him are very just . He was very greatly and deservedly revered by those persons who had the honour and happiness to be acquainted with him . All spoke of him with great reverence and respect .
As to his being afflicted with the put , as Mr . Hazlitt asserts , it might he so very near the close of his life , but I < Jo not recollect ever hearing ? r it before . If he was so afflicted , it ls nothing strange that he should wake use of some large books , or any thing else , to enable him to move win place to place in his house ; but 1 much inclined to think that the
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anecdote . about G&vyVs ; w ^ tjks , r * afiwc from : wtett the lajfce . Rev * Samuel palmer , somewhere , I w persuaded * says of him , that being at Mr , Ortoa ' s * and Mr . O * wanting to reach , a book from one of the high shelves in
his library , he raised himself up by standing on one of Caryl ' s folios , $ ekJ observed to Mr . P ., " You have often heard of Caryl on Job , now you see Job on Caryl / ' Mr . O . abounded with useful anecdotes , but not with light and trifling witticisms . It is
true Mr . O . was not an angel , but he was a learned , very wise , very prudent , very candid and pious man . I am sorry that any person should have spoken of him in so dishonourable and disrespectful a manner , but I
take a great pleasure in vindicating his character , as it is not only supporting truth and righteousness in a wicked world , but making him a small return for the many favours which he so disinterestedly bestowed
many years ago on me . If any person should think that I have treated the subject too gravely , I would reply , that this Rev . Job Orton was too venerable a character for wit to play with .
There is , Sir , in your publication for June , 1809 , ( p . 337 , ) a curious account of a poor man going to Mr . Orton , while he lived with Dr . Docidridge , to inform him that he was
tempted to believe that Jesus Christ was nqt so great a being as our heavenly Father is- The account carries in it the air of truth , but I wish to have it more authenticated , Jfor at
present I believe it is anonymoijs ; perhaps some of your readers will be able to grant me and the public this favour . There has within no great distance of time been more than one account
in your Miscellany concerning Dissenters receiving the Lord's Supper in the Established Church . The following is an extract of a sermon in characters that Mr . Orton put into my hands some time after I came to Bloxham , the original of which 1 returned to him , but retained a copy of it . I sometimes wish it was in
print , for it is by no means super seded by any thing that he has s&u on the subject , if . by any others . He says , " Christians should l >< careful to attend vvitlvtbxw new
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1826, page 531, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2552/page/23/
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