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      Review. ,, . . . "Still Pleaded To Praise, Yet X^Et Afraid To Blante .'*—~Jv≫Pje.

      REVIEW . ,, . . . " Still pleaded to praise , yet x ^ et afraid to blante . ' *—~ JV > pje .

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      AflfcTJ ( I . ~ jF 7 ie Hisf&fy and-Antiquities ^ r f > f Dissenting Churches , ® c . V ¦ ¦ * t ^<** cltkded from p . 677 ] MAN Y . of the ejected ministers vrcrfe men of solid and extensive learning . Some of them possessed very valuable libraries , Thar

      belonging to Dr . Lazarus Seaman , the fitfst pastor of the Presbyterian Church , in Sliver ^ Street , now extinct , who died I ft it * 95 , was sold by auction after his ( Jeath , ^ and produced seven hundred pounds , a , very considerable sum in that day .. This is said to have been

      % He first library that was sold by auction fa England . A catalogue of it is preserved in the Museum of the Baptist Academy at Bristol , ( III . 1 £ . ) Etr . Thomas Jacqmb , the colleague of Uf . Seaman , at Silver Street , possessed % t

      &ri incomparable library of the tnost valuable books , in every branch of learning . * ' On his death , which took ' pi& £ e in 1687 , his books were brought to the hammer , and produced thirteen hundred pounds . ( III . lp . ) The celebrated Dr . Thomas Manton , who was

      pastor of a Presbyterian congregation , g&tbeired by himself in Bridges Street , Coyent'Qarden , and who died in 1677 , ** feada fine collection of books , which sfckl lor a considerable sum after his lleathv Amongst them was the nobta Parish ft ion of the Councils , in thirty vollttries , folio , which the bookseller hi in

      ^ frered for sixty pounds , or his Sermons on the HQth Psalm ; but finding it too great an interruption to his other work , to transcribe these discourses , he chose rather to pay him the money . " ( III . 662 . ) A history of the libraries of the . Bartholomew

      Confessors would illustrate their characters , and we apprehend furnish aftecting proofs of the distress into which many of them were plunged . Mr . Wilson passes a high and deserved-en ' comium upon Dr . Toulmin ' s edition of Neal ' s History of the

      Puritans ( III . 99 , 100 ) . This , as well as the former editions has now become scarce and sells at a very high price . A person , competent to the undertaking , might render great service to the Disiwrvters , and g&m rfo- small reputatiori , by a new edition , with such improvements as the great number of

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      recent publications on English hrsf ^ fy worild enabte him . to make . Suchi work would , we cannot doubt , be countenanced , if "hot taken in hand by the mcfre respectable' booksellers . Mr . Wilson has the requisite knowledge of the subject , and we are inclined tb

      hope that we might rely upon his irnparttality . * In the . latter part of the history of the p ? ace of worship in Silver Street , which has been transformed into a Methodist chapel , Mr . Wilson makes some spirited remarks upon Dissenting Pluralist ministers ( III . 124 , 125 ) .

      The poverty of the Dissenters alone prevents the instances of trcclesxustical polygamy being more common amongst them . Some r % ceht events shew tfvat congregations would secure each a portion of the ! services of some of the more rJopular evangelical ministers , if they wete wealthy enough to procure

      them by a snttabte offer . The Independent congregation at Haberdashers' Hall is said to have been formed by a cKurfch that rriet , in the days when lords were voted useless and bishops a nufea * nce , fVrst ? in the House of Peers antl afterwards in

      Westminster Abbey . Several of Crbrnwell ' s lords and merrfbers of parliament , and two at least of trie judges that sat on Charles I . ah

      One ofthe ^ earfiesl minibter ^ her £ was TkeopMlus Gate , M . A . the 4 ulh ' bf of " The Court of the Gentiles , * w ^ o is amongst rlie greatest literary ornaments of the Nonconformists . Me

      Was born in l 628 , and died in ltOT , having lived loiig enough to establish a lastihg reputation , but too short a period to execute all the works that he had planned and his friends expected for the promotion of sacred iearrufig . Our author has drawn up a judicious and interesting account of this distinguished scholar ( HI . X 6 l— -168 ) . . 01 mis

      In the list of the pastors same cottgregcftfoH are the respected names also of John T and Thofod * tym * father arid soV itKe latter / is w # known to have beeri tHe tutbr of . Dr . Watts . He had many other pupils w \ o rose to eminence . His death was

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1816, page 722, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2459/page/30/