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When from increasing debility * hc could no longer read , she wished that the Psalms , might be read to her . Their descriptions of the divine character as merciful to the penitent and upright , exactly comported with her ideas , but the denunciation ^ m some of them she
could not reconcile- either with the Jewish or Christian dispensation , and lavished not to hear them . The last week of her life was truly afR . ictive : not that her patience failed her , hut . her sufferings increased . She v / ould sometimes . say , Though death ha ^ no terrors , ¦ v et the hve-vvavs and avenues to death
puzz ' . eme ; besides the newness of the scene may per Ira ps confuse me . After great pain , she would - ay , I am thankful pains are not immortal . *^ PijH 9 oc ~ cus-ion she exclaimed with morethan ordinary energy , O my heavenly Father , trample me not to atoms ! already all niv bones are broken ! Am I not thine
by creation , thine by the choice I have made of thee ? As if fearful of impatience , she immediately added in the same tone of energy , Bless the Lord , O my soul . During the Jasr . few days of fier life she frequently beckoned me , and in a low voice sard , I ieel my pains come on so quick and so strong ,- and my faculties so feeble , I wish to have
suitable petitions- and portions of scripture often repeated to me least my patience faiJ . O may I descend into the grave without ingratitude and 'without a murmur . -Thus was she diligent to the la > t to 4 < be found of God , in peace , without
• ipot and blameless ' * She was heard frequently to repeat suitable texts of Scripture and detached verses of hymns , particularly those of VV ;< tts , and recommended the continuance of the custom
\> f requiring proper portions of scripture to be- committed to memory by the children , obseiving that she felt in her present circumstances the benefit of that early part of her education . Tluii she continued , alternately praying and
praising till she slept U > e sleep of death . Jtk-r remains were conveyed to Kelsha . ll church-yard , where the following inscription , us expressive of her character and sentiments , is designed to be placed over her giave : —
* A Christian upon rational , conviction : Kquaily averse to bigotry and enthusiasm ; . A lover of the good of all persuasions : In conduct truly exemplary , though humbled under a recollection
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of much defect and error , she cheerfully confided in that abounding ' mercy , which graciously accepts of sincere repentance and improving holiness . Her long and severe afflictions she endured without z
murmur as the kind and salutary discipline of her heavenly father . Amidst the painful di-solution of all mortal attachments , she anticipated rfie eternal happines- of heaven , indulging the benevolent hope that in the dispensations ' of perfect goodnes , the future sufferings of the wicked would Become
remedial , and the whole intelligent creation be constituted virtuous and happy . ' * Should the foregoing narrative be the means of leading any of our Christian brethren to think more charitably of those whose religious creed differs from their own , or dispose any individual of any creed to value more highly our
common Chri tianity , as affording principles able to sustain the mind under affliction , and in the nearc&t prospect of death ,, it will greatly gratify the narrator . Should any of his old religious connections deign to read this imperfect sketch , he
can assure them it contains a faithful account of the religious principles of the deceased , and that the uniform comfort those principles afforded her are not overstated , as many besides himself can testify . .
E . F . S Jihn , Pc . II , i 8 o 3 . * 8 o 2 , January the 3 d . Died at his house in Fetter-lane , after a long and gradual decline of strength and health ,
which he endured with exemplary fortitude and patience , Mr . JOHN DAVYS BROWNE , attorney at law . He was a gentleman of great > kill and knowledge in his profession , and attended to the duties of it with trn wearied
assiduity . He did not confine himself however to the ordinary routine of official business , but studied the great pi inciples of law iu respect to their tendency and dd ^ i ^ n , ujid accurately investigated the means by which laws are calculated to answer the purpose of their enactment , and the causes which occasion their
insiifhcicncy and failure . He was a strenuous admirer of the British constitution in its genuine form , unincumbered by the additions which have in the course of time stripped it . of its excellencies and tarnished its lurstre . Equally averse to anarchy and despotism , he was the warm advocate of the just rights of mankind
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1809, page 112, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1733/page/56/
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