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their prevailing features , the successivechaog ^ s which seem , from * the nature of the case , to belemg' to tiie ^ ercessi of t ^^ th ott ^ h midoiditjedfy >^ ithi d ^ odr rdeal © 6 ^ exGeptficmv (> f irriegularit ^ aid > cif anticipation , have aefcuaVly pr ^ aehted themselves in the > history © If Wfc&fcftot ^ ism * We believeit tcihbe ^ the fact ^ a ^ d ^ greatlyiin ttert fact do t * e irwoi (^* h&t
the prevailing tafcte of ¦ Uaitariartis is 1 best gr&tified by those < diiplay * ^ f 1 tte spirit of Gbriatianity which most tend to purify ^ expabd , and ekf ^ ate the he ^ nv We are ready to do ^ battlef ^ itmtiiwheQfever aii assault is to be fepteltedv ^ f a couquest may be made ; t » ot our i&eligat is to feel its&rjawer * ahd 'Wfrokf > it £ glofVi ' ¦ f r > , __ -. ' , \ , - y- > . .-, i ( .... .. ;; . f ., - pf , p ; . iy , : i-ivr . * * t r >> ' -v -oi ' i ' ' i ^ ; : itr . rrtc jf ^ Of Mr * -Bebiiatii ^ moral qualities of tnVpiety , inte ^ rityv aiwi ^ feiiidries ^ we hive already spoken , in terms borrowed frona one who tvas evidfently * v ^ eil
qualified * tb f bear his Borrowing testimony to fchemU Respeet ; was * th «{ fee ^ ittg wfeicfethey were emiaen % -ada ^> t « i tb exeite ^ ^ n ^ l wfeteh k is certain ^ ifey did ^ eicitle , from a very early part of his life . Hence his gtppofritnidnt , vrhile yet almost a youth , to the Assistant Tutorship at Daveiitry ; at » d His ' subsequent call to occupy the Divinity chair there and at Haokne ^ ^ ^ Aadb hewc ^ , 1
to » , the harmonizing influence which his opinions and ^ example hadxtp&tt those portions of the Unitarian body which were likely tO '^ pptea * to eacti other as intemperately zealous or culpably indifferent ; ; Thelextetitno trfeich he was identified with what may be termed the Aristocracy of Unitarianisni gave so much the more worth to his hearty sanction of popular j > lansy'atid tended at once to rebuke the coldness of sorae and temper the ardour of others * And something of the same sort may be observed eveil in hiri p < y ) i *
tics . He was a Whig of the old school ; and if in any thing he was tmphilosophical , it was in a reverence for Whi g Lords almost as profound as that of David Hume for Royal Stuarts . But his feelings were ever warm and strong when rights were invaded or injustice perpetrated . And long after the most signal atrocity which has been committed with impunity in modern times , the Massacre of the Manchester Petitioners , had been co » sign ^ 3 to oblivion
by compromising and coalescing politicians , he was accustomed / to refer to it , coupled with the emphatic addition " never to be forgotten ^! ah * d never to be
forg iven . " ¦¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦¦ '* ' • • • - ¦ ¦ ^ ' ^?• ' i ^ i / ori * But it is time ^ to bnog these observations to a elorei If hey have extended themselves far beyond our , original design . Nor . / MH ^ , we ^ jqppclude them better than by remarking , ^ e perfect un ^ ty whfqh pei-y ( ^^ flj ?^ * - Belsham ' s labours . Diversifi ^ , ^ , ^ hos e laibou ^ s were , ar ^( lv ^ jj ^ a | f | e . as , ^ y would be , considered only as sb manyandepeudent cp ^ t | r ^ ution ^^ tjg ^ ciljnjrnon stock of human knowledge ^ ^ c ] ec ^ d ^ ' s ^ , it V ^ nifnjgoens ^^ crea ^ importance and worth , and ccjns ^^ ijptagfjy $ fW $ ^ ^ m ^^ ^ jphf ^ ssk ^^ recollection of him , that one common aim and tendency runs throughJKem all , binding ; them into a consistent atttf f ^ rirtiletfe ^ vrWIe , dhd ^ n ^ niail ril rhettfiby one spirit of life and pow ^^^ fifn * U ^ ftpl ^ Mg ^ record of his life , and one motB ^ lr ^ ye ^ Hne ^ rhto ^ is one God , and one MdBOfflmMj ^ lM ^ In whatever department of tbeftlrjW - W ^ M history , or controversy , he 4 W ^ TCc&ffl ™ the pulpit , the desk , or | h « Gpwg ^ Jcibna ; MWf qwwh « c < 3 « djilt 4 w ^ i $ fr . Bel sham always appeared ir ^ ttinifai ni ^ thbfMime Jeh ahtctop , ^ tydiwhtffiidlft * advocate of Unitarian Christiam ' t ^ siiriksitis ^ to do ; and he did it witblfeisiiiii (^ dqdDhtfJ ^^ which exh \\ nl * th $ Jfoi \ y ^ ( tkm < i > ett \ w&s \ xty ^^ glory of his personal unity ^ > which irire « cntee € < thtfT » or ^ rii ^' o # t'heJ > FAher in spirit
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252 On the Character and writing's of the Rep , T . Belsham .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1830, page 252, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2583/page/36/
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