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progenitors , and can enter more completely into the spirit of the events and deeds , of which we become the witnesses . A biographer , so ancient , a memorialist coeval with his subject , at once supplies future historians with materials , and enables us either to establish or to rectify , either to illustrate or to impugn , the narratives drawn up by authors of a far later age . minded the
As we mark the firm and high- consistency , uncompromising fortitude , of many of our ancestors , and then glance at the manners and character of several of their descendants , the sight gives rise to mingled feelings . Surveying one side of the picture , we are tempted to exclaim , " There were giants in the earth in those days . " On beholding the reverse , we are disgusted and mortified by that indifference to the voice of religion ,
which is shewn by not a few who bear their name , and are exempted from their perils . It is truly painful to view any , of whom we might have hoped better things , fainting beneath the sickly , luxurious breezes , the sunshine and the smiles of prosperity , and becoming the sport of fashion and the determined votaries of the world . Of many an enlightened confessor , of a former period , we could at most say , as Homer of Diomede , ——— 6 5 e % ep u , a , § i <> v Xa £ e X P 9
Ti > $£ i §^ $ , pvycc epyov , o ov Svo yai / Bpe ( jjepotsv , OlOl VVV tpOTQl BKT * ' 6 $£ [ AW p £ OC KOlWe Y . OCI QlOq . We are grateful , nevertheless , for our acquaintance with some delightful ex amples of religious integrity in private life ; examples of men who , prefer
ring above all things the answer of a good conscience towards God , give proof , by their steady resistance to the blandishments of their situation , that , if other days returned , they would be as inflexible under a tyrant ' s mandates , his frowns , or his sword , as they are amidst the solicitations of Gain , Pleasure , and Ambition .
These reflections have been suggested to us by an interesting little volume , on the perusal of which the reader , we think , will share in our sentiments and feelings . For the Life of Professor Wodrow we are indebted to the pen of the well known , the faithful , and pious historian , of " the sufferings of the Church of Scotland : " * it contains the memoirs of his honoured father , and was designed to be published by the late Dr . John Campbell , of Edinburgh , in consequence of whose death the final editorship devolved on some of his friends and brethren in that city . We make an extract from the
Advertisement : " In drawing up the memoir of him [ Professor WodrovvJ , his son appears to have been actuated , not only by the laudable wish to preserve the memory of an excellent father , but also by the desire , which formed his ruling passion through life , to throw light on the transactions of the Church of Scotland , and on the lives of her most distinguished ministers . Besides what
relates to the Wodrow family , the memoir will be found to contain notices concerning" several contemporaries of his father , facts respecting the public affairs of that eventful period , and important information as to the state of theological instruction both before ajui after the Revolution , which are not to be found elsewhere . It discovers the same industry in collecting , and honesty in stating , facts , and is written in the same plain and unambitious style as the author ' s history . * * * * . It is printed exactly from a manuscript in the
* Hist , of James II ., &c , by the Right Hou . C . J . Fox , p . 208 . " Wodrow , whose veracity is above suspicion . " Sec , too , p . 288 . Other testimonies to the merit of his Hist ,, &c , appear in the Advertisement to the New Edit ., ( 4 Vols . 8 vo . 1828 , ) now in the course of publication at Glasgow .
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400 Life of Professor JVodrow .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1829, page 400, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2573/page/32/
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