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      any degree , have been obstructed by the operation of constitutional disease , that such a life should have been suddenly cut short , at what appeared its very prime , are

      among those appointments of the "M ost High God . which it were now presumptuous and fruitless to explore , but to which we subjiiit * as our duty and happiness require 5 with reverence , gratitude and faith . Wise and benevolent

      purposes , with regard both to the individual himself , and to-his connexions , are assuredly to be answered by the most afflictive dispensations . Let death meet the good man in what place , at what time , and in what shape it may , still he is an infinite earner bv his

      exchange of worlds ; and his removal admonishes us to be , like him , always ready .

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      59 S Memoir qf the Rev . John Edwards .

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      It Is proper to reprint here this valuable directory of conduct ^ not simply for its intrinsic excellence , ' but moreover , in testimony of Mr . Edwards ' * cordial interest in the happiness of iiis younger friends , from—whom on all occasions , he received marks of the warmest

      attachment and regard . JRev . John Ed ivdrds * s Ansiver to the Ad dress of the Ifbung People , My kind friends , I return you many thanks for your very affectionate Address , which

      encourages me to hope that the labours of more than ten of the choicest yejars of my life * will not prove altogether fruitless ; but will contribute to incline you also in your several stations , to devote the choicest years of your lives po

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      Publications by the late Rev * John Edioards x . . Letters to the Rev . Mr . Medley , 5 cc . Liverpool , 5791-a . Vindication of the Sentiments contained in a late Address ^ . Liverpool ,

      1791 . 3 . The Blessedness of those "who are persecuted for Righteousness * sake : a Discourse delivered at Kingswood , Bir-s m ing ham and Warwick , iamo . Birmingham , 1793 .

      • 4 , Letters to the British Nation , ( on the riot at ( Birmingham in 1791 . ) 4 parts , & vo . Birmingham , 179 c * . 5 . A Sermon preached on the Fast Day , April 19 , 1 793 . 8 vo . Birmingham , 1793 .

      6 . I nattention of Christians to set days of public fasting justifiable : a Discpurse , ^ delivered in the Union Chapel , Livery Street , Birmingham , the Sunday after the day appointed for a National Fast , March' ' 13 , 1796 . 8 vo Birmingham , 1796 .

      7 . A Sermon occasioned by the death of the late Hey . Dr . Jo seph Priestley , delivered in the Dissenting Chapel in Monk well Street , pn Sunday evening , iVpril 15 , 1804 . & vq . London , 1804 .

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      8 . A Thanksgiving Sermon , at the Old Jewiy , on occasion of the JVictory at Trafalgar . London , 1806 .

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      No . 1 . This gentleman afterwards settled with a society , of the congregational or independent denomination , at Wotton und-er lidge , in Olocestershire , where he died a few years since . He published " Sermons to the condemned . Literally intended for the benefit of those under sentence of death

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      by the laws of their country : spiritually , for all who feel themselves under con * demnation by the law of God , and who may properly be sti'led prisoners of hope * To which is added an original dialogue , between the minister and a convict ordered for execution . " iamo . zs .

      A friend informs me that this work * which contains seven sermons actually preached to convicts under sentence t > € death at Ipswich , who were brought by the goaler to Mr . Edwarde * s meetinghouse , was first published in 1765 , and came to a second edition in 1777 .

      Mr . Edwards also published " A minister dead , yet speaking : The substance of two , discourses preached at Ipswich , November 11 , 17 70 , on the death of the Rev . George Whitfield , A . M . *

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1808, page 698, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1706/page/6/