text:  But the true censure on Secker would have been that he rose without making a figure in any thing; that he had never produced any work worthy of notice as a divine; that he had neither eloquence in the pulpit nor vigour with the pen; that he seems to have been at all times a man of extreme mediocrity; that his qualifications with the ministry were his being a neutral on all the great questions of the day; and his merits with posterity were that he possessed power without giving offence