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furnished a subject for panegyric . Mr . R . 's discourse on the occasion was published and very
highly applauded . His own modesty led him to say of it that it was received with more respect than it merited . On new year ' s d ay ^ in the following year , he preached and printed ^ at the request of the managers of the Free School in Gravel Lane , in the
Borough , an excellent charity sermon in behalf of that institution , entitled " The charitable man the test economist , patript and Chris - tian . "
In-the course of this year , lToi , £ / lr . R . succeeded to the pastoral charge ; of the congregation in Jewry street , which-had long been under the care of those illustrious ornaments of the Christian church , Djs . Lardner and Benson- To
the former , who has been emphatically styled the prince of modern divines , he < paid a noble tribute of respect in an Oratioji , which , to say every thing in a word , was worthy of the occasion that called it forth . It has been
in great part , transcribed into the life of Lardner , prefixed to Dr . Kippis ' s edition of his works , and Hvill descend to the latest posterity in connexion with a name , which will be an everlasting" honour to
our country . Upon the death of I ) r . Benson , which had happened some years previous to this , Mr , R . had paid the , last honours at his grave . This Oration appeared attached to the Sermon and brief
Memoir by the Kcv . Mr . Picard , and is in the same style of simple , manly eloquence as that fur Lard * jner . In 1762 , ] M [ r . R . published . 11 Fast Sermon , and in the following year a discourse on the anriiiprsuvy of tlje Hanoverian succes-
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sion , preached at thfe' Lord ' s-day morning lecture " , at Little ^ St . Helen ' s , both published at the request of those who heard them . In the latter the preacher ^ from our Lord ' s words , My kingdom is not of this world , " takes occasion to lay down , and in his usual , clear and forcible manner , the genuine principles of religious liberty . In the year 17 ' 6 $ , Mr . R . was united in marriage to Miss Parish , eldest daughter of the late Edward Clarke Parish , esq . of Wal - thumstow . This lady survives to tement his loss , a loss heightened by thoihigh value which her own
excellent understanding enabled her to set on his distinguished talents , and by the affectionate and unremitting attentions which he considered it both his duty and his happiness to render ^ under the loss of sight and other
distresses , with which it pleased heaven to afflict her . lie left one Onl y child , a daughter , married to S . Iveson esq . of Black Bank , near Leeds . At a period when the public mind seemed growing decidedly liberal on religious subjects , the penal statutes against Dissenting
ministers and schoolmaster * , who could not conscientiously subscribe to the doctrinal articles of the church of Kngland , had fallen into disuse ^ and it was hupedttke tirnv was come when parliament
would cordially join in repealing tbejn . The great Dodd ridge had himself had a prosecution
commenced against him for keeping ail academy ; but the late king had interfered on ' that occasion to put a stop to it , and it was presumed that as the country seemed now ashamed ofexecuU
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Memoir of Ehenezer RadcUjfe , Esq . fOO
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1809, page 709, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1707/page/3/
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