The principles which ought to regulate the procedure of a Christian minister in this respect, both in his private studies and his public ministrations, have rarely been stated with more distinctness and ability than by one of Dr. Rotheram's pupils, Mr. Lowthion, of Newcastle, in a sermon on the reasonableness of ministers speaking freely to their people, preached at the ordination of Mr. Caleb Rotheram, his tutor's son and successor, And the names of Seddon, Dixon, Holland, Walker, &c., which appear in the list of students educated at this institution, are sufficient to satisfy any one in the slightest degree acquainted with the history of Protestant dissent during the last century, that these principles were consistently and fearlessly acted on by the excellent person who conducted it; at the same time that fruits like these, of his labours as an instructor, afford abundant proofs of his competency to guide his pupils to the acquisition of sound and accurate learning,
