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pteeaehed by / hikitttimaie friend , M r * Matthew HeJityii and v&& afterwards printed . How high his cjhara ^ er st $ o * l among flat Dissenters of that day will apgeai : from taat sermoix , aod also from the Preface to his Life , written by Dr . John Evaias , autlaar of tbe celebrated Sermons on the Chm&tia-a Tctnaer ,
anothervery intimate and particular friend of his . They bothspeak , of him in the highest terms , as a scholar :, a ramisfeeiv and a . Christian ; so that we may safely venture toreekoi * Mm amonsr
the most respectable of ihe Nonconformists of that age - His name was long revered among the Welsh i > issent « rs ^ esp ^ ially the Presbyterians , who still preserve bis memory and hold it very dear * He continued at Qswestry above twenty ymam vriOk a poor congregation and a small ilicome ^ and resi&ted for a
good while very pressing invitations to remove , especially to * Manchester and Salop ; Of the invitation to the former , he m 1699 wrote to his brother thus : < c I haye your % and another from our good Manchester friends , whose importainities I mact scarce able to resist , and less able to comply with . I £ I should
remove , Salop will urge hard that they ought to ciame ficst mto Gonsideratian . ^ In another letter he expressed hioisdf as fdU lows : ** . There was a meeting of our country ministers , wha unanimously declared for nay removal to Salop , which . I'have , after many thoughts , at length resolved on : it being a , public post , and near the Welsh country , as also to Oswestty aucL WrexharxK which are very uneasy at the thoughts of my Ieav ~
ing them , especially poor Oswestry , who keep thetnsehfles within no bounds of sorrowing . I am much afflicted at th ^ ir distress of spirit , and am ready to wish I had not passed mf word to Salop . Pray for these poor people and me , that God would settle our minds to his honour and glory m" He removed
to Salop in 1700 , and continued there to his dying day , which was about seven years after his removal thither . In the beginning of his last illness , his wife said she hoped God would spare him to bring up his children ; to which he answered , " That ' s the least in my thoughts , for if I may not live to be useful to the church of God , I desire not to live . "—He was thr ^ e tiroes
married . His first wife has been already mentioned ; she , 4 ie& in Jan . 1691-2 . In 1693 he married his second wife , who was the widow of Alderman R . Edwards of Oswestry : she died m Aug . 16 ^ 9 . In Aug . 1700 he married hie third wife * Mra , Elizabeth Hough , relict to Mr . John Hough , citizen ofChw- ?
ter , and daughter of John Wynne , Esq . of CoperJonay , in Flintshire . This appears to have been a very happy union . ¦ ' They were /* says his biogra p her , eminent arid conspicuous examples of conjugal fidelity and affection : there V was , ^ med of Vars and fel | mg 9-owt tQ r ^ new % \ mv \<* Y § . & remztk
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1806, page 405, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1727/page/13/
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