Grs 
they ftand, aré given below*; to the xf. 
vol. are prefixed an admirable portrait of 
eur Author, and a very refpectable litt of 
fubfcribers. 
Thus clofed the public literary labour 
of the fubiect of thefe Memoirs, and we 
fhall conclude ovr account of his writings 
with obferving,that, in his laft four pamph- 
lets the fame. ardour and independent 
fpirit are confpicuous that diftinzuifhed 
his former publications, on political fub- 
jects, which the circumftances of the times 
called forth. ' 
Firm in his attachment to the catife of 
freedom, he preferved a ftrict uniformity 
of conduc 
Yah the political creed, which from his 
early days had ever his ftrenuous fupport.. 
Steady as Dr. Towers was in his prin- 
ciples on political points, he was not lefs 
fo in his fentiments on theological fub- 
jects; hecften, and buta fhort time before 
his Seach, mentioned, that the opinions he 
had formed on controverted points of Di- 
winity, at the time ke fent his firft pamph- 
let into the world, he had feen no reafon 
to his. maturer Yer, to retract or doubt 
of. 
warmly agitated of late, refpecting the 
doctrine of the Trinity, he adhered to the 
epinion of the iate Dr. Samuel Clarke ; 
except only that he was not fo high an 
Arian as that great man. Though he 
was in habits of intimacy with many dif- 
tinguifhed chara&ters, who embraced and 
were warm advocates for Unitarian prin- 
ciples, in the ftricteft fenfe of the word ; 
he expreffed no doubts of the pre. exiftence 
of Chrift; nor did he become a convert to 
their notions ref{peéiing materialifm, or 
what is called philolophical neceflity. He 
* Vol. I. A Vindication of the Political 
Opinions of Mr, Locke.—A Letter to Dr. 
Samuel Johnfon,—-and Obfervations on Mr, 
Hume’s Hiftory of England. 
Vol. Hl. Obiervations on the Rights and 
Doties of Juries.—-A Letter to Dr. Nowell,— 
An Examination of the Charges ‘brought 
againft Lord Ruffell and Algernon Sidney.— 
A Dialogue between two Gentleman, concer- 
ning the Application to Parliament, for Re- 
lief, in the Matter of Subfcription, &c.— A 
Review of the genuine Doétrines of Chriftia. 
nity..—and an Oration delivered at the Inter- 
ment of Dr, Caleb Fleming: 
Vol. Ill. Thoughts on the Commence- 
ment of a New Parliament.—A Dialogue be- 
tween an Affeciator, and a well-informed 
Englithman —Remarks on the Conduét, Prin-- 
ciples and Publications of the Crown and An- 
chor Afiociationn—And an Effay on Pe Life, 
&c. of Dr. Samuel Johafon, 
~ 
through life; retaining to the, 
As'to the queftion fo frequently and 
Memiir of thé tate Dr. Fofaph Tower’. 
had enlarged views of the divine benevas. 
lence, and was difpofed to think that 
whatever might be the means of melioras. 
ting the hardened and wicked in another 
ftate, the whole human race would ulti- 
mately have reafon to acknowledge, that 
‘their exiftence was a blefling beftowed by 
the Father of Mercies. 
Dr. Towers kad. enjoyed an unvfaal 
fhare of health and {pirits, until about the 
beginning of the year 1795, when both 
appeared evidently to decline. 
The lofs of his great and excellent 
friend, Dr. Kippis, “towards the end of 
that year, was an event which we have 
reafon to think dwelt much oa his mind ; 
their friendfhip was. of the moft lafing 
kind, tounded on mutual efteem, and fixed) 
by mutual worth ; it had been many years, 
ripening, knew no interruption, and by 
death alone could be diffolveds’. Soon after 
this event his activity abated, and he lived 
more tetired than ever; few of his evenings 
were {pent from home, nor did he mix 
much in the fociety of literary men, as he 
had hitherto been accuftomed. It is pro- 
bable, that the want of his ufual exercife 
occafioned the jaundice, which had feveral 
times attacked him,, to gain ground, andy | 
undermine his :conftitution. ,-When free. 
from this diforder, his ftrength fometimes. 
appeared to be renewed;.and his mind to, 
refume its accultcmed vigour; which af-. 
forded, both to his family, and friends the 
flattering expectation, that his health 
might. be completely; reftored: but the 
winter of 1798, which proved. very long 
and trying to many perfons of delicate 
habit, and particlarly.to thofe in advanced 
life, evidently fhock and fhattered his, 
frame, which brought’ on a perceptibley 
though gradual, decay. 
continued ogaahealty to vifit his. friends 
and regularly te difcharge his duty asa 
Minifter, until the Sunday but one pre- 
ceding his diffolution. - His family did 
not apprehend that this event was fo near 
as it proved. Though low, and extreme- 
ly weak, he retained the extrcite of Bis 
mental ahs to the laft, and on the 
very day of his deceafe, Mrs. Towers and 
his fon talked fome time with him, on the 
moft fericus fubjects; when he briefly, but 
f{carcely articulately, began a ‘religious 
converfation, in which he fpeke of the 
fteadinefs of his faith: he pronounced a 
bleffing on his fon, who addrefled a prayer 
on his behalf to the Deity, at which heex- 
preffed his cordial fatisfaétion ; at the fame 
time declaring his thankfulnefs for the cares 
and attentions of an. affectionate wife, 
_ + Altera fhort interval, patientand refigned, 
: -withe 
He, howevers | 
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