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Roy. Sarnud Whitinf. 177
In relation to the public and private charac-
ter of the Pastor of Lynn, the testimony of
his contemporaries is singularly explicit and
unanimous. In connection with the passages
already cited from Turner's Journal, we may
add the foIlowing extracts from Dr. Mather's
Magnalia, first published in 1702 : --
" And he (Mr. Whiting)was no less a man
of temper than of learning : the peculiar sweet-
ness and goodness of his temper must be
deemed an essential stroke in his character:
he was wonderfully happy in his meek, his
composed, his peaceable disposition: and his
meekness of wisdom outshone all his other
attainments in learning ; for there is no humane
literature so hardly attairl_d as the discretion of
a man to regulate his anger. His very countenance
had an amiable smile continually sweet-
ening of it; and his face herein was but the
true image of his mind, which, like the upper
regions, was marvellously free from the storms
of passions.
"In prosperity he was not much elated,
in adversity he was not much dejected; un-
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