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the rectory of East Horsley in 1818. By the patronage of Lord Liverpool he became Bishop of Killaloe in 1820, and in 1823 he was translated to the see of Down and Connor. This diocese he adorned with his learning and piety, till, full of years, he ex changed toil for rest on the 2nd of November, 1848.
Bishop Mant was a voluminous writer ; his works are too nume rous even to name. The following were his principal prose works: in 1804, " A Familar and Easy Guide to the Church Catechism ; " " Puritanism Revived, in a Series of Letters from a Curate to his Rector," 1809 ; " An Appeal to the Gospel ; or, an Inquiry into the justice of the charge alleged by Methodists and other objectors that the Gospel is not preached by the National Clergy." This was his Bampton Lecture for 1811, and went through several editions. Between 1812 and 1814 he published three volumes of sermons. He was joint-editor with Dr. D Oyley, rector of Lambeth, of a " Commentary on the Bible." He also wrote " Biographical Notices of the Apostles," 1828 ; " Scriptural Narratives of Passages in our Blessed Lord s life and ministry ; and " The Happiness of the Blessed, &c.," 1838. This was his most popular work. It had reached a sixth edition in 1848. In 1838 he published a volume of sermons, " The Church and her Ministrations," and in 1840 his great work, "The History of the Church of Ireland."
From his early years Bishop Mant courted the muses. One of his earliest pieces was a poem in honour of his father, to whose care in his education he was much indebted. In 1802 he wrote some verses in honour of his schoolmaster, Joseph Warton, and edited the poems of Thomas Warton the poet laureate. In 1P04 he sent forth a poem called " The Country Curate." Even the reasons for his choice in marriage were put in verse and sent to the object of his choice ; and, losing his fellowship in consequence of his marriage, he wrote his " Farewell to Oxford." In 180Ghe published his "Poems in three parts." In 1807 " The Slave." In 1824 he sent forth " The Book of Psalms, in an English Metrical Version, with notes critical and illustrative." He wrote
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