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

[340] parties for whose accommodation it was set on foot chose, after all, to avail themselves of it, the experiment, after a few years, was abandoned. It is believed that none of the ministers who were concerned in the preparation of this form of prayer ever attempted or wished to introduce it into their own places.

The devotional spirit of this tract is of that deep and ardent kind which is quite characteristic of the confessors of the preceding century; ‘excellent men,’ he says, ‘because excellent, instant, and fervent in prayer;’ whose eminent zeal and sacrifices in the cause of religious truth he eulogizes in such terms of glowing and affectionate reverence as drew commendation from many of those whose prejudices had accustomed them to consider him in any other character than that which, in reality, eminently belonged to him.

The ‘Scripture Account of Prayer’ was prepared for the press by Dr. Taylor in the spring of 1761, (his prefatory remarks being dated 25th February,) but was not published by him. Early in the morning of the 5th of March in that year, while asleep in his bed, it pleased God to remove him to a better world. From the composed posture in which the body was found, it was judged that his departure had been perfectly tranquil. On the second of June, in the same year, his wife followed him, after having acquitted herself as a true Christian under a long course of bodily weakness. They were both interred in the chapel yard at Chowbent, near Bolton, in Lancashire. A plain mural tablet is fixed in the chapel, with the following inscription:—