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lity,’ which he introduced with a Pre- 
face, exhibiting a concife retrofpeé of the 
nature and views of that eminent writer’s 
ftudies and publications ; and, by diligent 
refearch, he procured and furnifhed mate- 
Vials for his Life, to accompany Dr. Lau- 
rence Mofheim’s tranflation of his great 
work, intitled * The Intellectual Syf 
tem,”’ into Latin, in 1734. ” 
Dr, Newton, afterwards Bifhop of Brif- 
tol; who, when a young man, was in the 
habit of paying the Bifhop of Durham 
frequent vilits, ‘* found him eafy and com- 
municative in all his converfations.”” A 
letter from him to Mr. William Whitton, a 
fhort time before his death, and preferved 
in the Memoirs of that fingular but very 
worthy and upright man, leaves om the 
mind a pleafing impreffion, as a fpeci- 
men of the condefcending and liberal tem- 
per of Bifhop Chandler. Mr. Whitton had 
written to him, onthe dateof the book of 
Ecclefiafticus, about which he conceived 
the Bifhop had committed anerror. His 
reply was thus couched ; 
‘© MR. WHISTON, 
January 6, 1748-9. 
«© T thank you for your learned re- 
marks on the age of the eldeft fon of Sy- 
rach, which I am at prefent in no condition 
to confider, and doubt I never fhall: my 
infirmities do fo multiply and increafe with, . 
my age, that my comfort is, that my life 
can’t laft long. But, while I am on this 
fide the grave, I fhall always remain, Sir, 
‘© Your affectionate friend and brother, 
‘ok, DuRESME.” 
It was a ftrong proof of candour, that, 
as Mr. Whitton relates, he gave up the 
double fenfe of the prophecies, on his re- 
prefenting the argument againft it. 
RicHaRD SMaLBROOK, born at Litch- 
field, and the fon of a hatter in that city, 
was fellow of Magdalen College, Oxtord. 
His firlt preferments were thofe of Canon- 
refidentiary of Hereford Cathedral, and 
Treafurer of that of Landaff. On the 
ad of February, 1723, he was confecrated 
Bifhiop of St. David ; and, on the 20th of 
February, 1730, he was tranflated to the 
fee of Coventry and Litchfield. He died 
in 1749. 
Bifhop Smalbrook publifhed, on diffe- 
rent occafions, various fingle Sermons, a 
lift of which may be feen in Cooke’s Index 
to Sermons, vol. ii. p. 306, 7. Several of 
thele were adapted to the controverfies of 
the day, of which he was not an uninte- 
refted {pe&tator. In one of thefe, preach- 
ed before the Univerfity of Oxford, June 9, 
‘ 
Dr. Richard Smalbrook. 
‘literal Senfe are fet in 
143 
1706, on the doétrine of an Univerfal 
Judgment, Mr. Dodwell’s peculiar fenti- 
ments concerning the mortality of man 
were confidered. In two others, delivered 
in Hereford Cathedral, in December, 1719, 
the charge of idolatry was brought againtt 
Arianifin. It was not in this inftance 
only that Dr. Smalbrook difcovered his 
zeal in the qucftions concerning the doc- 
trine of the Trinity, that were then agi- 
tated. He evinced it by’ feveral other 
publications, as ** Reflections on the Con- 
duct of Mr. Whifton, in his Revival of 
the Arian Herefy ;’°—*« The New Arian 
reproved ; or, a Vindication of the Reflec- 
tions :"-—** The pretended Authority of 
the Clementine Conititutions confuted by 
their Inconfifttency with the infpired Wri- 
tings of the Old and New Teftament, in 
Anfwer to Mr. Whifton;”’ and “ An En- 
quiry into the Authority of the Primitive 
Complutenfian Edition of the New Tefta- 
ment, in order to decide the Difpute about 
1 John, v. 7. ina Letter to Mr. Archdea= 
con Bentley.” 
He printed two Charges to his Clergy, 
one in 1725, the other 1728. The firft 
offered direétions for ftudying the Holy 
Scriptures to the greateft advantage, as 
the foundation of Chriftian faith and mo- 
rality; the fecond exhibited a corcife and 
judicious view ef the evidence of Chriftias 
nity, as a religion founded on faéts, fuip- 
ported by the beit and moft authentic tef- 
timonies, preferving their credibility to 
this day. In an Hiftarical and Critical 
Account of the beft Apologifts for the 
Chriftian Religion, his Lordfhip mention- 
ed Fauftus Socinus’s httle book ** On the 
Authority of the Holy Scriptures,” as a 
valuable performance; though, at the 
fame time, he endeavours to depreciate the 
character of the author, by anilliberal in- 
finuation, that lie was ** a writer, other- 
wife, ju@ly of ill. fame.”* The merited 
praife beftowed on the treatife itfelf had, 
however, a good effet: it drew from the 
pen of the Rev. Edwaid Combe, Re&tor 
Sc. Martin’s, Worcelter, in 1734, a Tran- 
flation of it, after the Steinfurt copy; and, 
ina prefixed ‘** Short Account’’ of the au- 
thor’s lite, he did fome jultice to his abili- 
ties and character. | : 
The chef d'euvre of Bifhop Smalbrook 
was ‘* A Vindicationeof the Miracles of 
our Bleffed Saviour, in which Mri. Wool- 
fton’s Difcourfes on them are particularly 
examined; his pretended Authorities. of 
the Fathers againf the TFruth~of their 
a jut Light: and 
Pee his* 
