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    on the Lord ' s-day , besides which he had a weekly lecture . At Creditor * too he exerted himself with success for the establishment

    of ^ Stinday schools which he instituted and conducted , principally I believe , on the model of those which our society supports . Heavy afflictions which had befallen some of the branches of his

    family , and others of a personal kind , induced him , in the course of last summer , to form the design of leaving Devonshire ^ and pf suspending for a time ., his stated-labours . But it was the mysterious will of God that those

    labours , however valuable , should now be closed . Very early in the present month , Mr . Edwards lost his life , while he was bathing , in an , ama of the sea , on the southeastern coast of Dlorset . Tender

    interesting and affecting are the reflections and feelings awake / ncd by th ^ e event ; and though the wound which it inflicts on the heart of grateful and mourning

    j rieijdsbii p ^ refuseth not to , be Sealed , still it ad & rits of no other remedy , than what Christian faith and hojpe are fully able to supply .

    Something remains to be said Concerning { the characteristic ta * lents , virtues and principles of Mr . Edwards . J ^ ne rgy and ardour appear to have been predominant qualities in his mind . Hence in the

    services and investigations which he thought proper to undertake , he vasindefatigablydiligent , as well as decided in support of the opinions which he saw reason for entertaming . Another effect of his possessing these qualities was that iris ideas were usually communi-

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    cated , not simpiy wnn eerrje ^ , but at the same time with $ trengt ^ This , in rny judgment , was a main distinction of his composi * lions . On some occasipus howr

    ever , they were enlivened Jt > y touches of taste and imagination ^ faculties which he seenis to havt ? gratified and improved by the &*> quent perusal of our best poets . The following passage is , I think , an illustration of this remark :

    Speaking , in a discourse oxi C ( the hlesseciness of those who are persecuted for righteousness sake , " of the Christian martyr , he says z " To his honour ^ me morial is written in the everlasting remembrance of God —For him let no -weak drops be shed .

    For the virgin snatched on her bridal day by the hand of death , from the husband of her choice ; for the youth failing in the midst of his strength ; for the darling . cjiild whose opening blossom promised in anaturity , the richest fruits of wisdom and of -virtue ; for

    these let the tears of pity tall and Lthc strains of elegy be heard . «« JBut the tears of Jp ity would ill accord with a fate like his . The harmony of the scene would be disturbed , and its greatness debased by grief and lamentation . No , rather let the most exulting

    notes of congratulation > be sounjded over the ashes of those who die in the Lord : let posterity be called upon to eye their glories ; while in expectation iof & second life , in those brjgUt ^ r , & cepe 3 which shall Tim

    be disclose ^ when e , lifee the hero of Gaza , shall pluck down the pillars which support this globe , their sacred dust sleeps with greater dignity than chart of kings and 'heroes in their tombs of grandeur . "

    Mr . Edwards * s generaj delivery of his sermpns , is stated to have . been at once correct , striking , an 4 energetic . He had ^ certainly . paid gueat attention £ roo > . an early pe * , iiod , to the theory and the arji of qlocuti 6 n , with particular re ~ fevence to the services of the pulpit : and his acquaintance

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    Memoir of the Rev . John E < Jwjard $ » ( 5 ^ 5

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1808, page 695, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1706/page/3/