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hut resolved to search the Bible - for themselves , and to study its contents with minds unshackled by human creeds or formulaties . They beld meetings purposely for searching the scriptures , and for debating on religious topic-, and by this procedure they passed through almo-t as many
revoluher advice was prudent and seasonable * and her admonitions gentle but yet convincing . Though she was well known to favour TJnitariani-m , and blamed by man * for being " too nice and particular" in her opinions , yet some of those that were the most remote from her in sentiments
tions as the celebrated York Baptists , to whom indeed they have all along borne a striking resentbfance . Their first leaders were Independents , but they soon became Baptists , which they stili continue to be : they afterward- ; exchanged Trinitarianism for Sabellianism , and Calvinism for Arminia . ni-111 ; and at one time they were strongly inclined
were constrained to admire her sense and piety , and several Calvinistic ministers in their travels that way , were unable to resist the temptation of calling to see so intelligent a person ; many of them will readily testify that some of the best hours of their lives were spent under her roof . The disorder which so suddenly terminated her existence was
an inflammatory sore throat , but neither she nor her friends apprehended any danger in it , for two medical gentlemen had declared to her there was none , yea on the very day ir ^ which she died shehad been ^ down stairs , and eaten a better 'dinner than in the whole preceding fortnight ! Alas ! how uncertain is life ! and how imperfect is man ' s judgment ! She was interred with respect and decency , though without any pomp , ? o which she always had great aver ion . Upon further inquiry we find that she had attained the 46 th year of her a ^ c , being one year more than what was stated in our last .
D- J-1808 , A pril 10 , at Sandon , near Royston , Heits , in the forty-second year of her age , MRS . FORDHAM , wife of Mr . EJias Fordham , ot that place . Of this lady we have received the following instructive and interesting account , communicated by her nearest
relation to a friend , with liberty to insert it in our Repository . Mrs . -Fordhurn ' s parents wt ? re members of the Church of England , but she was early placed under the care of a worthy female relation , a Dissenter of the Calvinistic persuasion , of whose well-meant endeavours to impress her mind with serious reli gion , she was accustomed to speak in " the language of gratitude . She was now however , frequently both wearied and disgusted with the tedious length , particularly on the sabbath , of rel gious services , the greatest part of which she could not understand * As she advanced to years of reflection her objections to the creed in which she had been educated continually "
into Sandemanianism , for they adopted the Sandemanian definition of faith , broke bread every Lord's day evening , and deemed ivashincr ofj ~ cet ^ anointing the Atcky &c . to be gospel ordinances . It is but justice to them to say , that throughout all their changes they manifested the
humble disposition of sincere-inquirers after truth , and that their debating > oc . eties were never turbulent , hut in the highest degree decorous and edifying . 'J he few that'now remain of them are settled in Universal ism and Unitarianism , and
their society is classed with the General Baptist churches that have lately so much incna :-ed in Wales . As Miss Prke ' s habitation wasbetween forty and fifty miles from the En cine church , it was but seldom that she could join her friend ? , yet she visited them as often as
she could , and some cf their preachers ( for they had two or three ) occasionally visited her ; but as this happened hut very seldom , she laboured under great
inconvenience as to an acceptable mmistry- The introduction of Wesleyan preaching latch into her neighb > urho « id , g ave her some lelief , and with several of the preachers in that connexion she was on very friendly terms ; one < f them , a Mr . Woodaii , visited her in her illness ,
and also delivered an impressive discoui'fc on her death , at Caerj > hilly , on the Sunday after her interment ; the ' auciitriice was numerous , and so affected rhlit there were but few dry eyes in the p ir . ee * Such was he excellence of JVT ' ss pj ; io > s . character that the commanded
"uimw Kil carerm ; her company was always l ^ ghly enterainin ^ and instructive ,, and it was eagerly sought for by rich y . nd poor , churchmen arjd dissenters ; «*»
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Fur the } Particulars of Miss Price . — Mrs . Fordh&m .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1809, page 108, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1733/page/52/
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