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    verity ; and Selden , one of themost le&aeg men e £ -&M 4 eft » owned , towards the dose of life , that of the ^ bi ^^ S volumes he had read and digested , nothing stuck so close to hi »

    heart y or afforded him such sojid satisfaction a » d com &ffa m JS ^ i ^ - 1 l *? & % ia one of p aui » epjst ]^ , « Tfeegfaee 0 | ** od which brmgeth salvation , hath atpe ^ d toal l men ,. * e 4 ghJ 0 <* us that , denying ungodliness and woridJy h ^ s , we shpuld . Uv soberly , righteously , aad . godly , in this , orosgi ^ t w < erM i lop kLng tor that blessed hope and the glorious abj > earmir of the Great

    Vrod and our Saviour Jqsus Christ ; who gave hims ^ f ; for Ms , that he might redeem us from all iniquity * and purify unttf mmselra peculiar people , zealous of mod «/ nrtajTit . ;; .. 11 hja

    12 \ h \*) Qretws also , a wp ^ der of leaj ^ ijag , said t t he would give all his honours af d l ^ vaiqg f ^ the-sincerity of mm John of Utrecht . " A relation of his , who Nyas a student . thtPe at th t time , and had- been , guilty of ijnbeccaiaing behavj ^ ijr toward him , asked , * Sir , will you fegiye me ? ' Upon whieh he took him by the hand , and with a smiling aspect , said , « Forgive thee , child ! ay , and pray for thee too ¦ : be not * as Esau , the bad son of a good father—^ be holy , hwmfcle , diligent / ilis children he charged to be frequent in prayer , and reading and studying the Scriptures . He a ^ Yised them to supplicate the Divine assistance before they read » and always to meditate before they went , to prayer , « Speak nothing , " said he , « the Divine Being without serious premeditation , and take heed cio not

    you pour out any crude and undigested expressions before him . •«* When the commission of death was opened to him , " says his biographer , " he received the awfuWummons without any discomposure of mind , and submitted to the final stroke with cheerfuand

    ^ l triumphant smile . He died replenished with those joys which the world cannot give or take awav . He passed through the gloomy shades in a perfect freedom of mind , and in the transports of a soul that had a believing and a sensible view of the supreme mansions . The terrors of dying were ef fectually , ^ cev en ted by a holy life . When in the dark

    V « e of death , gasping for the last brea , th , his conscience was *» e mos . l ? eFene ^—heavem entered into his soul , and the eternaj voice sovinded , » Cpme up hither to the general assembly of the first-born , to God the Judge of all , to Jesus the mediator the

    q / new covenant , and to the spirits of just men made per-T ' , T" e di ^ A pril * , 17 O 6 , aged " 42 , Oa the nth of April hg was decently interred in the ahurch of Su Chad ' s , in S *» 9 P » "'^ n ^» >? says his biograpfajer , ^ by a numerous and aiP «» ttuI tram . The pall was supported by eight ministers in eomes . and n ^ mrBiu ^ c k »» kg . " The iuo « i « a aeraw w > as

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1806, page 404, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1727/page/12/