controverfy in which he appeared, was 
‘that produced by Mr. Dodwell’s cel brat- 
ed Trac, « Chriftianity not founded on: 
Argument ;”. to which Mr. Mole replied 
ina Piece entitled, “* Phe Grounds of 
the Chriftian® Faith fational,’? 19743 5 a 
Piece which did honour to‘his’ ability, 
éandour, and liberality: 
Previoufly to this publication he: had 
removed from Rotherhithe’ to Hackney, - 
where he fpent fome years, till at length 
he returned to ‘the neighbourhood of Ux- 
bridge, where he died ‘about the year. 
3780, in a very advanced age. 
In an early period’ of his miniftry he 
was engaged, in conjunction ‘with Mr 
Lardner, Mr. Chandler, and feveral other. 
Minifters, in carrying ona Courfe of Léec+ 
tures, ona Tueéfday evening, at the Old 
Jewry. trax a 
In 1745 he printed a Sermon, from: Jo. 
nah,’ if. 8,-9,; preached at Court-yard, 
Southwark,on December 4.—He employ- 
ed the latter part of his days in writing 
in Latin a Life of the-celebrated Lau- 
rentius Valla, including the relizious and 
literary hiftory of the time, The manu-. 
-fcript of this work Mr. Mol:’s executors, 
with an inattention which, as’ Di.“Kipp's 
juftly. obferves, ** can never be fultified, 
permitted to be fold with his books at a 
common auétion.”” Some other fruits of 
his retirement were not loft. “= 
In r768 he publifhed “a Sermon * On 
Repentance and ‘Remiffion of Sins,. witha 
Prayer adapted to the Subjeft’;””'a Dif- 
courfe, in my opinion, well calculated to 
anfwer the views of the Secieties ‘formed 
to ** promote Chriitian. Knowledge, and 
‘the Practice of Piety and Virtue,” by the 
diftribution of books. A larger and’ ful. 
Ter Treatife on the fame fabject, entitled, 
* A Difcourfe on’ Repentance,” came 
‘fiom his pen in 1776- cid orrisacas 
In 1782, after his deceafe, were pub- 
Tified, as his compofitions, by an anony- 
mous éditdr, two pieces, one entitled, 
** Piety ; or, the happy “Mean between 
*Profanenefs and” Superttition ;” the other 
"with this title, «* The Cafe of 4 Diffent 
“and Senaration from a civil Bftablifhment 
*of the Chriitan Religion, fairly tated. 
This jaft‘affords pleafing {pectmens of the 
‘author’s learning. All his Traéts*and 
“Sermons evince a folid judgment, accu- 
racy, and precifion of thought, and a libe- 
“ral Spirit. “Dr. Kippis might*with truth 
fay, ‘‘ that he was the author ‘of fome 
\ 
valuable’ publications ;” while* he -alfo - 
ranks him; in point‘of learning, with Lard- 
‘her, Benton, and Chandler. Dr. Lard. 
mer, in his Remarks on Dr. Ward’s 
~ Memoir of the Reo. Thomas-Mole.., 
st Differtations,”” has paid ajuft tribute off 
refpe& ‘to Mr, Mole,'whom he calls his © 
© much-efteemed friend,”” by adopting, 
“61 
and in¢orporating with his own fome- 
‘very correct and ingenious obfervations 
which he received in a Letter’ from ‘him, ~ 
on the cafe of the Demoniac who refided © 
'. among the tombs onthe coaft of Gadara™ ~ 
-I‘conchide from a Letter, with which E~ 
was favoured by him in the year 17735 
that he was very converfant with the Polith 
Unitarian writers, ‘© who, (fpeaking of 
then in the fpirit of ‘true candour, he 
fays,) weremen of eminent learning and- 
piety, though their diftinguithing tenets,’ 
whatever be their merit, have undergone 
the fevereft ceniure.”” p.. 269, &c. ‘The 
following fhort. paragraphs, ‘from one er 
two of his publications, may, ferve to’ give 
the reader an idea ‘of Mr, Mole’s {pirits’ 
character, and views. ‘© It” were ‘to “be~ 
withed (fays he,) that all parties. of Chrif- 
tians would ceafe to jook, upan themfelves:: 
aS parties, and confider themfelves as en. 
gaged sin'common in ‘the caufe.of God 
and virtue, and the Chriftian dodtrine—- 
not in 6ppofition to one another, but to 
the ungodly and unbelieving world; for 
‘all the other marks of diltinétion are only 
fo many marks of the corruption of Chrif- 
tians ; and could. this fpirit of love and 
peace once prevail, how perfeétly fhoald 
we all be knit together in one; how ami- 
able woul this {pirit of union makethe 
facé of religion look in the world, which 
now locks. fo deformed, through the op- 
ofition and contention of fuch as proféfs 
it.” f Tn another place he expreffes him- 
felf thus: §* It is much to be wifhed, that, 
in all inquiries about the Chritian reli- 
cion, that only: fhould be confidered as 
fuch, and come into the queftion, ‘which 
lies originally in the facred writings of the 
New Teflament ; for Chrifianity as it is 
there laid down, and as it lias been fince 
eftablihed in the various writings and laws 
of men, are different’ things, and very 
wide of one another, To intereft’ Chri. 
tianity; not in what Chrift, but in’ what 
men have made-it, and’ to direét ‘our ‘in- 
Guiries and “determine ‘our {entimens- 
“about it from thefe later gloffes, is much 
‘the fame thing, ~ as. if'we were tojudge of 
‘the natuie and meaning or the, Law ‘of 
Mof-s from the: falfe interpretations and 
“fpurious additions with which the Phari- 
‘fees had- corrupted. it 5. which, however 
“they. went under the name of the Jewith 
. o® Lardbevs Waikss Byoed.volixts . 
t Farewel Difcourfe, p. 22. . Wr 
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