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    the Historian of the Long Parliament . It appears from the following passage in a Biographer , too often calumnious . Speaking of May ' s having been " graciously countenanced by King Charles h and his royal consort , " Wood

    remarks" He , finding not that preferment from either , which he expected , grew discontented , sided with the Presbyterians upon the turn of the times , became a debauchee , ad omnia , entertained ill principles as to religion ,

    spoke often very slightly of the Holy Trinityt kept beastly and ath e istical company , of which Tho . Chaloner , the regicide , was one ; and endeavoured to his power to asperse and invalidate the King and his cause . " ( Ath . Oxon . 1691 > col . 205 . ) -

    The conclusion of this passage will easily account for those unsupported charges of irreligion and immorality , among which is placed disaffection to the doctrine of a Trinity * Lord

    Clarendon , in his own Life , written at Montpelier , 1668 , could find nothing worse to say of his early associate than that " he fell from his duty and all his former friends ; and prostituted himself to the vile office of

    celebrating the infamous acts of those who were in rebellion against the king . " He adds , indeed , " Which he did so meanly , that he seemed to all men to have lost his wits , when he left his honesty ; and so shortly after died miserable and neglected ,

    and deserves to be forgotten . ' ( P . 35 . ) JLord Clarendon may be suspected to have suffered a temporary loss of his wits , while thus depreciating May ' s History ( which lias found an enlightened modern Editor ) and , venting a royalist ' s spleen against the Author . So far from having died miserable and

    neglected , unless the expression refer to the circumstance of liis having been found dead in his bed , May was buried , probably with a public funeral , in Westminster Abbey , where , according to Wood , there was erected to his memory ' * a large monument of white marble , " by order of the Parliament , in houour of their

    Historian , as appears in the following conclusion of his epitaph , by Marchmont Need ham : Hoc in honor em servi tarn bene mcriti , Parliament . Reipub . Ana . ] P . P . May died in 1650 , and

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    shared with Slake and Cromwell in the disturbance of their ashes by the royal profligate Charles , and in his puny attempt to disparage their memories . The minute biographer

    Wood has , however , recorded that the place where Mays tomb occupied " the west wall , " was in 1670 , devoted to Dr , Triplet . It was near the tombs of Gamden and Casaubon . LIGNARIUS .

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    466 Unitarian Hymn-Books .

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    wMa ^ qPBMM ^ Sir , AMONG the subjects relative to public worship that of late years have come under discussion , there is one which , I think , deserves more consideration than has usually been allotted to it . No sincere Christian

    can doubt the importance of whatever has a tendency to kindle a spirit of fervour , and to rouse that feeling of inward devotion , without which the mere outward forms of worship become not only mechanical , but no longer acceptable to our heavenly

    Father , who must be worshiped in " spirit ai ^ d in truth . " It becomes , therefore , a question for our consideration , what are the means best adapted for cherishing the pure flame of rational devotion and thanksgiving . In this connexion it is that I regard

    the importance of that delightful branch of our religious services , which receives the soul-inspiring aid of poetry . It is this which has added sublimity wherever she has been associated , and in proportion as her

    influence has been felt , she has united refinement to the exalted pleasures of religious adoration . With this conviction , w * e surely cannot too highly prize the admirable effusions of those excellent men who have thereby so nobly served the cause of piety and virtue . Who then can reflect on

    many of the beautiful productioiis of Doddridge , or read the simple measures of Watts , without regretting * that we are not permitted to enjoy them till they have passed the ordeal of the

    modern refinery ? I do not mean to deny the necessity of omitting certain portions of the writings of many of our sacred poets , in order to render them consistent with modern ideas

    of scriptural truth : in the most important of these our Unitarian Editors coincide , nor would there otherwise

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1819, page 466, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1775/page/6/