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Mr*. Elizabeth New. Died at Evesham, on ...
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Samuel Brent ^ Esq * Died, Sunday, June ...
$$$ & , ijioral improveraent of the rising . generation . He had fora
Jptiff series of ^ ears enj oyed an uncommon share of health and strength , but an insidious disease which baffled the combined skill of the faculty , undermined for these two last years , and hath at length overthrown his constitution .
Amidst his bodily sufferings he was supported by the hope of a blessed immortality ^ founded on the di . vine mission of Jesus Christ , and was thus taught to view death as introducing him to the haven of r § st . With a serenity becoming the exalted views which the believer is empowered to indulge ,
he would frequently utter those well known lines of the Dying Christian ** - Cfiase fond nature—cease thy strife , And let me languish into life ! And also that fine stanza of Dr . Watte—FiHffaise tay Maker tfitfi my htenth ,
Aiid when my voice is lost in death Praise shall employ my nobler powers ; JVfy days of praise shall ne ' er be past Whilst Jrfe or thought or beirtg last Ot Ittimottatity endures ! - — / The writer of this imperfect record had the honour and bappiiness of intimately knowing this
excellent man for upwards of twenty years . And it shall be his huml / le endeavour to recollect and imitate his virtues , whilst it wjlj be his delight to cherish his memory . The deceased , with his characteristic modesty forbade a funtjral Sermon—but this brief effusion of ' individual regard and
private affection cannot be supprejssed —His widow and nume * rous famil y who knew his Intrinsic Worth have the distincuished consolation of being enabled to aritjic | pate tfre plai | dit ( jfa rifth r teous arid " merciful budgie , frtfl
Samuel Brent ^ Esq * Died, Sunday, June ...
w done good and faithful ^ -s ^ r ^ i ^ M ^ - * enter thou into I At jwy * & f th $ Lord ! He was interred in the family ^
vault , at Deptf ^ rd , amidst a weep- * ing train of relatives and friend ^ by the Rev , W . Moon , who paid an affectionate and appropriate tribute of respect to his memory . Islington . J * E .
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Mr*. Elizabeth New. Died At Evesham, On ...
Mr * . Elizabeth New . Died at Evesham , on the 214 t of May , of a dropsy , in the 5 Sth year of her age , Mrs . Elizabeth New - the wife of Mr . A , Netar *
woolstapler . In her were exem « plified the efficacy of Unitarian principles to form the devout Christian , and the estimable
character . The following account is taken from her funeral sermon ^ preached on the 29 th of May , ta a large congregation , of weeping friends and relatives .
" The * three sources of consola * tion which have been mentioned as contributing their united in * fluence to form the Christian ' * joy at the close of life , were open to the worthy person whose much lamented death has occasioned
this discourse , and she derived from them the most solid satis foe * tions , when all earthly comforts had failed * " Tbe retrospect of her past life ,
* The subject was taken from Aets xx . 34 . " So that I might finish tny course tfritb joy / ' The words were considered at * reminding us of the
nature of our present circumstancesmidcr the moral government of God , whictt require vigilance and exertion , 9 * i 4 likewise that the time of attending to the great business of lite will $ oca $ It
terminate ^ was further observe ^ that die sincere Christian on the v € i ^ of time deri ¥ e » \ ay from cdiitenupbtting hi * past life , his pie » o « $ ** U \ 8 , ana future pro » pccti .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1814, page 367, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02061814/page/47/
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