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    BIOGRAPHY.

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    No . I . His declaration at his ordination . EVERY one was born for nobler ends than to go to and fro in the earth , and walk up and down in it , and is obliged to do and get r * much good in the world as he is able . And as

    circumstances now are , I do not know anyother way , wherein i may be more capable of being as serviceable to God , as useful to others , and as profitable to myself ; I am therefore willing , if I may

    he judged worthy , to devote myself to this awful work ; that I may be in a better capacity of working out my own salvation , and be made an instrument in the hand of God for promoting the salvation of others .

    < c Who is sufficient for these things ?" But I trust the grace of God will be HiifHcient for me . Therefore I promise in his strength and assistance to be diligent , faithful and constant , in the discharee of the several duties of this

    important trust . I hope , that God will ever give me . such a value for the truth , as to search after it impartially and to conform to it universally , as far as I know it . But

    insiderinor how liable 1 am to error myself , and how apt frail man is to call error truth and truth errbr ; 1 hope God will ever enable me to regulate and temper my zeal with humility , knowled ge , moderation and charity .

    I have been made so sensible of the ftad and dismal consequences of schisms , animosities and divisions among Christians , that unless I am deceived , I could willingly lay dowli my life , to cure those wounds of the church r therefore I hope ,

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    » I shall be religiously careful never to be the cause of any myself , and do what in me lies , to heal those that are . Jesus Christ is king in his own kingdom . And as such , he only hath authority to determine upon what condition any person shall be made a minister in it . Some of my brethren tell me , that they also have a ri ght to insist upon certain conditions , which our lord . and master has no where specified . In this case , I will say "with St . Paul , " I will be brought under the power of no man ; " nor bow my knee to any . but to

    him , to whom " every knee must bow . ' * For this cause my brethren have shut mf out . Therefore I am obliged to seek my ordination from those , who profess to do it upon gospel terms . In whatever relation it shall please God to p lace me , I hope to act as one that is sensible , that a faithful discharge of all relative duties is essential to Christianity , and that it is in vain to pretend to religion without it .

    If at any time I should go astray , or if any of my brethren should but suspect that t do , —if they will be pleased not to publish their suspicions to the world , but bring them directly to me , with ttieir reason for them , I hope God will give me grace to reform upon the first conviction . But if they should be mistaken , and I should see no reason to condemn myself , 1 should nevertheless , return them my Christian thanks for their godly jeslousy , and act afterwards , as I see reason . I feel methinks , a passionate inclination to cry out with Peter , " Though all men should forsake thee , yet would not I . " But T remember Pcrer fell- J

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    THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY OF Theology and General Literature .

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    No . XLI . ] MAY . [ Vol . IV .

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    A SUPPLEMENT TO THE MEMOIRS OF THE REV . HUBERT STOGP 9 N ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1809, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1736/page/1/