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CHRISTIAN GUARDIAN,

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Church of England Magazine.

JANUARY 1835.

MEMOIR OF THE LATE BISHOP HORNE,

THERE are perhaps few of our own college and the leading memreaders who have not been more bers of the University, that shortly or less instructed and edified by after taking his degree of B. A. he the devotional compositions of this was elected Kentish-Fellow of amiable and excellent Prelate; Magdalen College. though possibly many of them are In June 1752, Mr. Horne proaltogether unacquainted with his ceeded to the degree of Master of history; especially as the Com- Arts, and on Trinity Sunday in mentary on the Book of Psalms, the following year, was ordained which is his principal and most by the Bishop of Oxford, and very popular work, is not in general soon became eminently distinguishaccoinpanied with any account of ed as a zealous, devout, and suits author: we shall therefore en- perior preacher. His first disdeavour on the present occasion course was delivered at Finedon to insert a brief notice of his life in Northamptonshire, where his and writings.

valued friend and biographer, Mr. Mr. George Horne, the second Jones, resided; but he was freson of the Rev. Samuel Horne, quently found occupying the pulwas born at Ortham, near Maid- pits in the Metropolis, and adstone, Kent, November 1, 1730. dressing numerous and respectable His early years were spent at assemblies with great acceptance. home under the careful instruc- During Mr. Horne's early resition of his excellent father; and dence at Oxford, a controversy at the age of thirteen, having made arose concerning the sentiments of considerable proficiency, he was Mr. Hutchinson. That gentleman sent to the Grammar School at maintained that the Holy ScripMaidstone, then under the care of tures are not only able to make us the Rev. Deodatus Bye, an able wise unto salvation, but also that scholar and sound divine. Here they contain at least the rudiments Mr. H. made such progress that of arts, sciences, and natural in less than three years, when little philosophy. These opinions Mr. more than fifteen, he was elected Hutchinson maintained in volumito a Maidstone scholarship at nous publications with considerable University College, Oxford, where ingenuity and great etymological he commenced his residence in research and acumen ; though his 1745. Here also he pursued his productions met with decided opstudies with great diligence and position in various quarters, and success, and was so highly and especially among those best acgenerally approved both by his quainted with the Newtonian JANUARY 1835.

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