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and wished the prerogatives pi the sovereign and the privileges of the people to he preserved with yi gilarit jealousy inviolate . In his religious inquiries , he was unable to resist the forcible arguments of that celebrated illuminator of
the human mind , Dr . Priestley ; and though brought up in the faith of the established church , he became convinced that its creed was erroneous and its doctrines unscriptural , and its mode of public worship unworthy of a well-informed Christian . Accordingly , for the
last eleven years of his life , he discontinued his attendance upon its ordinances , and united himself to v the congregation assembling in Essex Chapel , at that time under the care of Dr . Disney , whose conscientious resignation of his preferment he ardently admired , and with whose ministerial services as well as
those of his successor Mr . Belsham , he felt himself enlightened and edified . He was a friend to innovation accompanied with real improvement in every instance , and was highly gratified with the labours of that society , which favoured the public with an Improved Version of the New Testament ; as be had been
before with the pains which his brother took in publishing Selections of the most useful and valuable parts of the Old and New Testament , in the language of the most improved versions then extant . The more his knowledge
© f theology increased , the more satisfied he became with the opinions entertained by that description of Christians now usually denominated Unitarians , and his faith remained firm and unmoved in the
pure , pen > onal u % ity of the divine Being , and his original inherent placability to penitent and reformed offenders to the last moment of his life . January 30 , at Wedmore , Somerset , Mr . S 1 M 0 N TINCKNE 1-L , aged 69 years . His death has occasioned a
severe loss to the General Baptist church assembling ' in that place , of which he had been a leading member for many years . His manners were those of a plain farmer , and his religious opinions plain farmer , and his religious opinions
were strictly Unitarian ; - he had adopteji rhem chiefly in cofl ^ eqtlence of examining the scriptures ^ and Heading authors on both sides of tjie question , and was never backward in avowing and defending them . This confirms us in the
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opinion , that the middle 2 nd lower classes of society are capable not only of understanding but even of defending the Unitarian doctrine . —Mr . Tincknell has we understand bequeathed a certain sum for the support of the cause at Wedmore . D . J . 1809 , February 9 . Died at h ^ r daughter ' s , Gosweli-House , Ooswellstreet . Mrs . . CATHERINE
MATtTER , in the 85 th year of her age . Nature gradually declined , and atlength sunk exhausted into the grave . Her remains Were interred at Worship-street , by the Rev . J . Evans , who improved her decease the succeeding Sabbath , at Leather-lane , from Psalm xc . k ? . Threughout a Jong Fife she was active in discharg ing the duties of the Christian religion , attcl felt its consolations at the close of it . Resigned to the Will of her
Maker , she with her characteristic calmness and placidity yielded up her spirit to God who gave it ; She has left behind her Jive sons and tvvo daughter sy and it was her happiness to live to see them comfortably and respectably settled in the world . They were all present at the delivery of the funeral dis * course , though some came from distant parts of the kingdom . They will not fail to cherish her virtues and revere her
memory . The memory of the just is blessed . Islington * E « February 10 . Died at Aulcester , in Warwickshire , Mrs . GREAVES , late of Kingscoughton . She had been
lingering for these Jast twelve months with an incurable and painfuldiseass , which she sustained with exemplary Christian fortitude , frequently intimating it was only a link of that my&tcriou .- ; chain cf events which is held in thn hands of an all ~ ivhe and ban + jolc / et Go : / .
She was a tender mother , and her greatest solicitude Was the promotion of ail . her children ' s happiness . Benevolence and sympathy towards all in distress wa-. the most conspicuous ttn \ % m her niiuri . She > , ever made ic an habitual prtlctire < 0 f bestowing sonic » mall donation 011 every
object that solicited at her door , and when chidetl for this promiscuous relief , she won 14 reply that if •' rhc-y do impose upon aiie , ic docs uot alfs / r my motive and intention in the opinion of-tf- ////» who * V .-w . ' £ ths imagination of the
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j \ fr . Smon TinclnelL Mrs * Catherine Mather . JWrs . Greaves .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1809, page 113, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1733/page/57/
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