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to Gloucester , and from thence to Tewkesbury , under the care of another Samuel Jones , whose character is well known , and his eminent abilities universally acknowledged . This distinguished tutor died in 1719 ; and then the seminary , I think , was removed to Caermarthen , where it has continued , mostl y * ever since * But to return to Mr . O . His studious habits *
close and intense and incessant application to literary pursuits , had brought on at an earl £ period of his life that dreadful disorder , the stone , which has so often proved so terrible and fatal to sedentary men . fle had often had most violent attacks of it for thirty years ; but latterly they had become more alarming , and he went twice to Bath on ihe occasion , for the
benefit of those celebrated waters , though it does not appear that he received any essential or very material relieffrom them . In the spring of 1706 , as he was preparing to go to Hortoti , about
three miles from Shrewsbury , where he had established a monthly lecture , he was taken very ill , and obliged to send another in his room He recovered in some measure of this fit , and the Lord ' s-day following , in the morning , he preached ; but he had no sooner done so than he was again taken very ill , and so continued all that evening and the next day * On
Tuesday , in the afternoon , he voided two stones , and seemingly recovered . On the following Saturday , happening to ride a hard-trotting horse , a stoppage of urine ensued the next day , yet he preached in the afternoon from those words— * The just shall live by faith : " but it was the last sermon he . ever preached . After the suppression of urine had continued a whole week- and all the means that could be thought of for his
relief had been used in vain , Dr . Hollings , a very eminent physician , was called in , who also used all the means he could think of , but without success . When the patient found his case become hopeless , he called for his family , and to every one of them bequeathed the legacy of an affectionate , suitable , and solemn advice , which was very seriously attended to , and made on their minds a deep and lasting impression . To his
pupils he said— < c I commend you to the grace of God , and am glad his church has such a hopeful prospect of you . " He recommended religion to them in the most pathetic terms , assuring them that he would not for ten thousand worlds but have lived as he did . " Now , " said he , I have the blessed comforts of it , and would not for the World be without those divine joys which now refresh me . " After he had declared how he was
converted in his younger years , and with what entire satisfaction he lived and died ih his non-conformity , he added , among other things , " It was the saying of a great man on his deathbed ^ that he found no Saviour but Ghrist , no religion but sin-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1806, page 403, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1727/page/11/
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