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      Some Account of Doctors Baron and Bullock * Deans of Norwich ^ by Mr . Edward Taylor . Si r * Norwich . MR . TOMS ' * notice of Dr . Baron [ XII . 389 ] will , perhaps , excite

      the curiosity of some of your readers to know more of hitn t and especially to see the Epitaph to which GiHitigwater , the Lowestoft historian refers . Baron was Rector of the Saxliughams , in Norfolk , succeeded to the Deanery of Norwich in 1733 . and was the

      same year made D . O . by the Arch * bishop of Canterbury , being then Archdeacon of Norfolk * which he resigned not long' after . He died at his Rectory-house of Saxlingfiam , July 11 , 1739 , and is buried in that church . On the south side of the altar is a

      neat mural marble monument , with the following inscription , written by the Dean : Cujns ossa hie sita tunt , Si rerutn novariim curiosus , scire desidera 9 , Qtiisquis ades spectator , Saxo nihil , viciuis dubia respondentibtfs , Me forte met certiorem babes indicem :

      Fui Johannes Baron , Clericus , Hujus ecclesiac quondam Rector , Ecclesiae Cathedral is Norvici tandem Db

      can us , Qui Exuvija hie depoaitis , nh Vertmbus deficerent pabula , Animus in Create ris mamis transmisi i

      Reducem , Sttcnla expectantem taeliora . Si fortunse dates in primi * qumitis , qu « ras ; eas vix esse uostra * Existtma , Dko tamen daute , me fuisse inteiligas ,

      Quogque per iiigeuiuoa , per malevohs licuit , Doctrind , opibn * , fa ma , loco , sic satis , Cum hoc mibi potUsiinum in rotii fuerit , Vt decliuata invidia , otia fmerer

      honesto primorum © xlrrmut , Si vitac jam exact * rationem queeras ; frustm quseris in presentift Cum neqtle r # » pondere prob ^ sciam Ipse ^ N « c curat populut oninino , aut carat nu mium 9

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      In aliutn diem difFerenda est cognitio , Quando omnium judici Dbo rationeui sum redditurus ; Tu , quoque , Jnterea , Tu candide spectator , Hunc hominem considerans , teipsum re *

      spice , Tu Jtidex acquissime , Pater optime , Servum de multis maVis male admissis do

      leu tem , absolve + Filijque immereutid , et si » pplicis Miserere mei . Natus 31 Octobris f Ann , q ^ i .,, * ? 1 677 Obijtundecimo Julij { Anno Salutis J 1739 Dr . Baron was succeeded in the Deanery of Norwich by Dr . Bullock , who was of a very liberal turn of

      mini ! , as appears from a volume ot sermons , which he published under the following title : " The Reasoning of Christ and his Apostles in their Defence of Christianity considered , in seven Sermons , preached at Hackne y * 17 £ 4 . " I believe your readers will be pleased with a few passages from the first of these discourses . Its title

      is ** Divine Revelations how proved . '" The text , " Hereby know we the spirit of truth from the spirit of error / 1 After explaining the terms , and shewing the meaning of the apostle in the verses whence the text is taken- he

      proceeds to ' * some observations which may serve as rules to us , whereby we may distinguish between the spirit of truth and the spirit of error " t € I observe , that the apostle supposes the use of our natural reason * necessary to distinguish a revelation

      coming from God , from that which does not . The rule prescribed by him fur the trial of spirits , whether they be of God or not , is this , that we compare their doctrines with the notions and apprehensions we have of God . This plainly supposes that

      we ought to h $ ve some just and true apprehensions of the Divine nature * before we can be qualified ( accordl ^ to this rule ) to judge of a reVelatioh coming from him . How Jiheq Sire these apprehensions pf God to Ve acquired 1 Not by re vdatioD , ii is plain :

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      . . . N < k CUII J SEPtfeMBER , 1818 ; [ Vol . XIU .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1818, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2480/page/1/