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    I am persuaded * was not the ch # .-frfKfjfejar ispd dressed by Y ? F » , and ind £ e *| t $ e views anjd CHristi ^ n attain | ti 2 nts Wftic ^ he at ^ rTbjites jo lils yduh ^ fnend go fcr beyopd thatf Character . It \ yas ^ tlijer puer who , tirolii Christian motives , liad fiefvoted himself to the offices of Christian instruction . He ba 4 j&Sv&n bis nights and days to the itvidy 6 f the scriptures , valuing

    bther studies > chiefly as they might feubserye his greai purpose ,. Christianity , in the character of its founder , its evidences , duties and fexjpectatiohs must be familiar ; to $ uch a jnind : nor after &n educalion especially calculated tpsup *

    ply a copia verborumy could he Easil y fail 4 o utter , out of the abundance tf the heart , those short petiUoris , counsel ^ and consolations suiifed to the case of a sick or dying fierson ; a person certainly in no

    condition to become a critical hearer .

    As to a Form of Baptism , * Wiill my views of the subject ^ a ininister 3 ouiig or old , n ^ ust , as the lawyers speak , travel out of tliet ^ cord , and go bey on cl the N . Testament , if he would justify in . font sprinkling in aiiy age , or adult !> &l > tism in the later ages of Chris ^ tianity . But as to " an office for the burial of the dead / ' that

    minister must be young indeed wbp ^ standing beside a gf ^ ye 3 cannot dweSl for a few minutes with propriety and to edification , on the familiar topics of mortality and i . m » tit iotttitUy , ^ es ^ eciiilly if he have in ^ hi ^ han d tfcat book of bookjSj for his-. tSfse ^' albHe wohhy of patent t 4

    ftdihg , " ^ tnd ' to be carried always in itt&focteiJ * As to the bjana ^ of fBfe dead , I / jtiestion wWtber p \\ rr ^ tii'diea pr ^ ycfsi aoijf , OS ^ ^ ^* * ljkK ? keh ^ raljfy lavQur of the

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    lan > p , formapy improvement m ^ Vi tfee more simple motl ^ recommended , by the Assembly of Di , vmes , in their < c Directory fpr P ^ bKc Worsh ip /* which i ^ still adopted by the Church of Scot . land * Th ^ y say , cc We judge it very convenient , that the Christian friend ^ which accompany the dead body ta the place appointed for public burial * do apply them , selves to meditations and conferences suitable to the occasion .

    And that the minister as upon other occasions , $ o at this time , if he be present , may put th ^ m in remembrance of their dftty , " Andi now , wjll V- F . exm $ t me , if I confess what passed in my mind , when I read his account oif

    44 yoting ministers at a loss , if sgd . denly called upon to perform any of these officesV I bad lately read th-p u Memoirs of Ludlow /* and j imTnediately i : ecpllected tht piteous case of an episcopal di g * nitary , which Xudlbw t ^ us de . scribes , " when speaking of the l ^ st

    hours of Charles I ., ^ The king having refused stich ministers As the court appointed to atteaid-him , cVesired that Dj ^ . Juxod , late Bishop of London , Bright be pptmitted to come to him ; which

    being granted , and Adjutant General Allen sent to acquaint the doctor with tlve king ' s condition and dtesires , he being al together unprepared forsqcha , wort , broke out into these expression ^ Od save me f what a trick is & $ ,

    that I should have np more W ^ ing , and I have nothin& rf&dy ^ but recollecting himself a little nc tur

    put on his scarf and his o | her - niturc , and went with him to the king , where having read the commoa pray ^ t aiul one of hh ol sermons he adnainiaei ^ d tbo ** & *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1811, page 604, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2421/page/28/