OF

WILLIAM STEVENS, Esq.

ODLE

HE, WHO DESIRES THAT THE TABLE OF HIS LIFE MAY BE FAIR, WILL BE CAREFUL TO PROPOSE TO HIMSELF THE BEST EXAMPLES; AND WILL NEVER BE CONTENT, TILL HE EQUALS OR EXCELS THEM.

Owen Felltham.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY THE PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY,

St. George's Fields.

1812.

(1)

TABLE

OF THE

PRINCIPAL CONTENTS.

STEVENS, Mr.-His Birth, 7—Education, 7-Early Piety,

12, 51, 53, 59-Purity of Life, 10-Literary Pursuits,

20, 27-Attention to Business, 10, 19-Employment of

Leisure Hours, 9, 19-Friends, 11, 27, 28, 163-Charities,

33, 37, 41, 50-Sentiments on the Uses and Acquisition

of a Fortune, 82-Writings, 102 to 123-Deep Theologian,

20, 21-Zealous Member of the Church of England, from

Conviction and Principle, 53, 189-Attendant on Weekly

Prayers, 55-Constant Communicant, 54-Exemplary

Charity in a Year of Scarcity (1800) 49-His own

Journal of his Life for One Week, 74-Bishop Douglas's

(of Salisbury) Testimony to his Theological Knowledge,

21-His Sentiments of giving the Elements, in the Ad-

ministration of the Lord's Supper to two Persons at a

Time, 55-Presentation to a Clergyman of a Small Service

of Communion Plate, with appropriate Texts of Sacred

Scripture, for administering the Holy Sacrament to the

Sick, 94-Appointed Treasurer of Queen Anne's Bounty,

37-Will, 188-Death, 181-Interment, 185-Epitaph,

185.

NOBODY.-An appellation, by which Mr. Stevens was known
to his Friends, 117-His own description of himself under
that name, 117-Club, denominated Nobody's Club, in-
stituted in his honour, 164-His Works collected into a

iv

Volume by himself, and inscribed Oudevos Epya, 117Members of Nobody's Club deceased, mention of, 166, 171.

SCOTCH EPISCOPAL CHURCH.-Short Account and Present State of, 131 to 151-Relieved from Penal Statutes, 137Bishop Horne's (143) and Bishop Horsley's (139) Sentiments concerning that Church-Fund set on foot towards making an Addition to the Incomes of the Bishops and Clergy (149) and for the Relief of their Widows and Orphans, 141-Committee in London for co-operating with the Managers of the Funds in Scotland, 151-Mr. Stevens's Contributions in Aid of those Funds, 141, 151.

BEREAN SOCIETY.-An Ideal Institution, so called, some mention of, 43, 47, 49.

SOCIETY FOR REFORMATION OF PRINCIPLES.-Formed by Mr. Stevens and his Friends, 155.

MOORE, Dr. late Archbishop of Canterbury.-Amiable Trait of his Character, 158.

HORNE, late Bishop of Norwich.-His Sermon on

"the

"Beloved Disciple," (51) and his other Writings (127) recommended.

HUTCHINSON, JOHN.-Some Account of the Writings of that Extraordinary Man, 22 to 27.

The Reader is requested to correct the following Errata,

viz.

Page 78, line 14, for party quarrel read party quarrée.

101,.... 1, for Mr. Calverby read Mr. Calverley.

135, 12, for four read three, and dele comma after Abernethy.

....

136, ..20, for four read three.