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nothing can be more false and unjust . When Mr . E , left thfe church it was his constant practice to have regular service in his own house on Sunday , and for this purpose he at first adopted the form of prayer drawn up by Dr . Samuel Clark
ters in that village , whose worship was Unitarian ; here he pretty regularly attended , and on the indisposition of Mr . J ervis , although he had not been in the pulpit for more than twenty years , at his request he very readily undertook to officiate for him . This he did several times . Mr . E . amongst other accomplishments , had a good ear and a fine taste for music ; his violin was a pleasing source of amusement , and
filled up many agreeable hours in a life of so much retirement . He was a warm friend of civil as well as religious liberty , and ready to contend for it oh all proper occasions , but he never suffered himself to be agitated or much interested with party politics ^ on . this subject bejdepicted his own character in his address to the King , prefixed to his Doctrine of a Trinity—€ * The Sr $ t ambition of niy soul / ' says he , " is to merit the title of a good Christian j the second , to be a good citizen of that country of which I have the happiness to be a native . "
It was an amiable and pleasing trait in his character , that he could accommodate himself to all ranks of society with unaffected ease ; mixed as he had with the great , where his company and conversation were always acceptable , he so regulated his behaviour and conversation to all ^ even the lowest ranks of society , that he never made any one feel his own inferiority either in talents or learning . Whenever he resided he met
with general respect and esteem , and his departure from every place was attended with the sorrowful regrets of the poor . At Colford , where his residence had been but shorty his sisters were frequently met by some of that class ^ during his last ijlness , with anxious inquiries , accompanied with tears , ¦ from an apprehension of the loss of a friend—and a friend ( it was painful to hear them say ) they had never before his arrival
experienced . He was remarked by all who had the happiness of his acquaintance for the urbanity and politeness of his behaviour and his attention feven to trifles ; it was striking at first sight , and
impressive after better acquaintance , because it appeared not lo spring from the studied art , of what , is called gopd-brecdixxg f fcjut
( now used in Essex-street chapel ) ; and when he had any friends at his house ^ always made the administration , of the Lord's supper a part of tl ^ & service ; lat terly instead of Dr . Clark's liturgy he made us < $ §( P prayers of his own composing . At Lympston he became intimately acquainted with the Rev . John Jervis , the worthy pastor of a society of Dissen-
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62 Rev . EdwardE % > anson > A . M .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 62, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/6/
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