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1723. Remarks upon Dr. Clarke's Exposition

of the Church Catechism.

1730. The Nature, Obligation, and Efficacy of the Christian Sacraments con

sidered.

Supplement to the above.

1737. A Review of the Doctrine of the Holy Eucharist.

1731. Charges: 1. The Wisdom of the An

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Christian Sacraments.

6. The Christian

explained..

7. The Sacramental Part of the Eucharist explained.

8. Distinctions of Sacrifice.

Six Occasional Sermons, including one

on Religious Education.

Thirty-three Sermons on several important subjects of Religion and Morality.

Summary View of the Doctrine of
Justification.

Inquiry concerning the Antiquity of
the Practice of Infant Communion.
Letters on Lay Baptism.

Various Series of Letters on important

subjects to different Correspondents. Soon after the publication (1720) of the Eight Sermons preached at St. Paul's Cathedral on Lady Moyer's Foundation, he was presented by the Dean and Chapter to the rectory of St. Augustine and St. Faith, in St. Paul's Churchyard. The Dean was at that time Dr. Godolphin, Provost of Eton, and among the Residentiaries were Dr. Stanley, Dean of St. Asaph, and Dr. Hare, afterwards Bishop of Chichester. This year he also preached the anniversary sermon at the Festival of the Sons of the Clergy. He only kept the rectory a few years, not long enough to become President of Sion College.

Two years later a compliment was paid him in the Northern Province. He was appointed Chancellor of the diocese of York by Sir William Dawes, the Archbishop. In 1727, on the recommendation of Lord Townshend, Secretary of State, and Dr. Gibson, Bishop of

London, the King gave him the interesting and agreeable post of Canon of Windsor. In 1730 the Dean and Chapter of Windsor made him Vicar of Twickenham, in Middlesex, on which he resigned the rectory of St. Augustine and St. Faith, in the City of London. In the same year Bishop Gibson, of London, made him Archdeacon of Middlesex, in which capacity he delivered, as Charges to the Clergy, some of his most important works on the Eucharist.

He now had ten years of life before him, and passed his time in an atmosphere of ceaseless intellectual and ecclesiastical activity.

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His residence was pretty equally divided between Windsor, Twickenham, and Cambridge; and his labours in religion and literature were carried on with unabated ardour. . . . Yet in the midst of these almost incessant avocations we are assured by his personal friends (and his letters bear testimony to the same effect) that he was not averse from habits of social intercourse, but freely cultivated and improved his acquaintance with those around him, and found leisure to assist and encourage others in every laudable undertaking." In 1734 the clergy of the Lower House of

the Convocation of Canterbury determined to make him their Prolocutor; but owing to his sedentary habits and the uncertain state of his health (as he says in his letters) he could not undertake it. The Archdeacon of London, Dr. Cobden, had already prepared the speech to be delivered on presenting him to the Upper House, and afterwards printed it, with some other works, in a volume. "Whom ought we to appoint more fitted to this office, what better champion could we find, than he who has so often toiled in the theological arena, and has brought back such great trophies from all the bands of the enemies of Christ? him, I mean, the most celebrated defender of the Articles of the Church of England, that is of the Catholic Faith; I had almost said a second Athanasius?"

He was also offered the See of Llandaff, either in 1738 or 1740; but the same reasons which made him decline the Prolocutorship were even more decisive against a Bishopric.

At Easter, in 1740, he delivered his last Charge to the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Middlesex; and from that time til July he was stationary in the Master's Lodge at Cambridge. He thus describes his life in a letter

dated July 6th, 1740: "It will not be long before I must return to Twickenham, there to stay for a month or two in the neighbourhood of the town. In the mean season I am here, in an agreeable situation, amidst plenty of books, printed and manuscript, entertaining myself, and serving distant friends in a literary way. We have lately lost here an excellent man, who lived and died in that pleasurable kind of toil: I am just come from hearing a fine panegyric of him from St. Mary's pulpit. Mr. Baker is the person I mean, as you would have imagined without my naming him. He lived to a great age, but so lived as to make it necessary for those he leaves behind him to think he died too soon."

In five months he was himself dead. Not long after his Easter visitation, "a complaint which he had many years too much neglected (the nail growing into one of his great toes) obliged him in July to call in the assistance of a surgeon at Cambridge (Mr. Lunn), under whose hands finding. no relief, and his pain still increasing, he removed to London, and put himself under the care of Mr. Cheselden. But it was now too late. A bad habit of body, contracted by too intense an application

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