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tiiat of UVerity-one children , which my wife brought me , 1 hav £ butlived them all but one . St > that I h&ve often occasion to say with Job—^ The Lord gave > and the Lord hath taken away i * blessed be the name 6 f the Lord . * ** £ > r . Robertson * as Mi \ Lindsey has well observed , *< retained
&nd kept tip that seretlity and cheerful trust in the Divine Providence which can only belong to the virtuous &nd inAbcent fcnind , that has always before it those prospects which theGos ^ pel opens into a happy futurity * Where the holy and the good
will m £ et again , never to part more * . " It was the will of Godj that his dortiestib afSictions should tiot close here . He liVed to bury that one and only surviving chilcJ out of so great a number . Sortte of the more remote descendants of Dr . Robertson , it is probable , ipay be now living : he had k gr&ttdson ^ whom he sent to the University of -bublm , and committed to the care and patronage of Mr . Skek
ton . This gentleman did Hot disappoint the hopes which Dr * Robertson rep 6 sfed ia his friendship : he appears to have kept & paternal eye on hifti > as he would not allow him , ton urgent t > ccask > ns , tb be in want of money f . of
Dr . Robeit ^ Oii tonclude 9 tli e retrospect his life , in th ^ tnemoir of tfc , with which he furnished , at Dr . Disney ^ s earnest solicitation , in this expressive and devout manner \ speaking t > f himself all along in thie third person , he closes by saying , ** He died # ***** # *** ### < #
^ « f # ^ -- ^ ## ^ ' ^ how 3 and when , and Where it ^ hall please his heavenly Father . ^ The pen of his respectable friend has supplied the chasm , by informing us , that < r he died , of the gout in his stomach , at Wolverhampton , on May SO , It 83 > in the * 79 th vear of his age , and was buried in the
church-yard of the new church there . * A mural stone near his grave has this inscription : >—• Here Were deposited the fiemaifcis of the Hev / WILLIAM ROBERTSON , D . D * Master of the Free Grammar School In this Town :
Departed this life , May 28 > l ? d& > Aged 97 . Mis Spirit appears in his Works * ) . To
Ni B .- ^ THe above Memoir is conipbsed , with some altera- ? tions and a different arrangetnent , from an account of the Life tof ] Dr . Robertson , commirnicated by Dr . Disney to the Gentle ^
* tindsey ' $ Historical VicW , p . 47 $ - t Burdy ' g Lite of skcltoii , J > . i $ 7 , * &
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ttei ) . IV . Robertson ^ D . 2 ) . 283
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1806, page 283, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1725/page/3/
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