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The Person of Christ ; the first of a series on the Doctrines of Revelation , published in the Calm Inquiry . 5 . The Holy Spirit . 6 . The Atonement . 7 . The Doctrines of Original Sin , Election , &c . 8 . The Constitution of a Christian Church , and the Positive Institutions of the Christian Religion . Published , at least in part , in ' Christianity Pleading for the Patronage of the Civil Power / ' and in the " Plea for Infant Baptism . " 9 . The Nature and Foundation of Virtue and Moral Obligation , also published ; and , 10 .
The Phenomena of the Human Mind , concluding with a review of the natural arguments for the doctrine of a future life , for the purpose of shewing that the resurrection of Jesus is the foundation of our hope of immortality . One season afterwards was occupied with a recapitulatory view of the whole , " arranged in proper order , and according to their natural connexion , " and prefaced with two sermons , which were published , On the Love of Truth , end , The Benefits arising from Theological Controversy . And thus closed this noble and useful portion of his public labours .
Mr . Belsham was in fact the Tutor of the junior members of his congregation ; though who was there of the mature , the aged , the best informed , who might not profit abundantly , as so many did , by the instructions which he gave ? It seemed like the voluntary and gratuitous prolongation of an office which he had held in earlier life , so honourably to himself , and so advantageously to others . We may apply to it much of the judicious and grateful praise of him in that capacity , with which one of his pupils has consecrated the memory of a relation which reflects lustre upon both .
" The office of a tutor in most seminaries of education , certainly in those which Mr . Belsham superintended , has two parts—the delivery of appropriate instruction and the exercise of faithful discipline . For his most exemplary fulfilment of his duty , under both these divisions of it , he will be remembered , by his surviving" pupils , with no common gratitude , esteem , and admiration . I could but inadequately describe from this place , nor would the attempt be proper , what he was as a lecturer ; how regular and
punctual , how intelligent , accurate , impartial , attractive , skilful , and impressive—with what graceful ease and fluency , and what variety and aptness of illustration , he enlarged on his subjects and his text books—and with how much address , talent , and knowledge of character he ascertained the proficiency of the several members of his classes ! But are there not those of us , my brethren , who owe yet higher obligations to his memory ? For he was most anxious that we should be ' wise unto salvation : ' and he laboured to
inspire us with supreme love to God and Christ , and religious truth and goodness . Who , among that portion of my hearers , to whom I now immediately turn , —who of us—can forget what were justly styled his devotional lectures , so calculated , under God's blessing , to render us firm , yet conciliatory , pious , and sober-minded , yet actively kind and useful ? The mansion where I first and chiefly knew him , in the character of a tutor , was the abode of order and
of concord : the rules of the house were impartially and wisely administered ; and if , among our number , any deemed authority to have been excessive or misplaced , it was not long before our reflections made us fully sensible of our error . So , I conceive , it will , usually , if not always , be , when the original or the delegated authority of a parent is lodged in capable hands , and exerted over ingenuous minds , I have noticed the fact , not only in grateful recollection of my honoured tutor , but , further , in the hope that the statement will
not be altogether lost on my young mends of this society and circle /'—Kentish's Sermon , pp . 16—18 . [ To be concluded next month . !
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1 72 On the Character and Writings of the Rev . T . Belsham .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1830, page 172, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2582/page/28/
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