the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians

[323] also strongly recommended it to the careful study of candidates for the ministry in the Established Church. As for the worthy author himself, though by no means indifferent to the favourable opinion of the wise and good, we cannot doubt that he would receive the idle ravings of a Macgowan with contempt, or rather with mild compassion; thinking it enough to reply in the language of the apostle, ‘with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment.’

In 1750 Mr. Taylor published a ‘Collection of Tunes in various Airs,’ for the use of his Congregation. This was one of the first collections of the kind, and a plain and simple introduction to the art of singing was prefixed to it. This was an accomplishment in which the author delighted and excelled; an accomplishment, we may add, which seems to have been inherited in no ordinary degree by not a few of his descendants. The pleasure, we are told, which the author took in instructing the younger part of his congregation in psalmody, induced him to draw up for their assistance the above useful little publication; and, in order to perfect his choir in so delightful a part of their devotional duty, he constantly devoted one evening in the week to their instruction. We have before noticed his ‘Scripture Catechism,’ out of which he regularly examined his young auditors, and impressed upon their minds the importance of attention to the sacred duties of religion.¹