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which we have always regarded as a -happy circumstance for him , because it was a house he much frequented whea he was ia the country .
u After he came to London , being of a firm constitution , he frequently preached , as I have heard , three times a day , in troublesome times . Hfe was sometimes in danger , the meeting surprised and himself examined ; but he had-the dexterity and happiness to conceal his character . u Alter the liberty granted by king James , ( the declaration was published April 4 , 1687 , ) he \ yas
called to tb $ charge of a congre-, Rational church , at Guestwick , in Norfolk , of which Mr , Richard Worts had before been pastor . This worthy man , and great sufferer for non-conformity , was
ejected from Foulsham and Guestwick ; but it seems he had been pastor of a congregational church before he possessed this living , $ nd was so afterward , viz , at Guest wick , as appears from the church book , from whence we
learn , * that the dissenting church , in and about Guestwick , sat down in gospel order , in the end of 1652 ,
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and chose Mr . Richard Worts for their pastor , who with fidelity and success laboured among them till his death , about May the 6 th , 1686 *"
Mr . Say further writes , " With ? in five miles from this place is Hunworthjt at which my father , in conjunction with Mr . Lemon , a neighbouring minister , erected
a meeting , which still cqntinues , and at which I have occasionally preached , though not to a large , yet « crowded auditory , and the most attentive I have ever ob *
served . u He did not enjoy m ^ ny years the little repose he found at Guestwick , seeing he died April the 7 th * ( according to the church book ,
the 8 th , ) 1692 . It appears by a letter written wi ^ h his awn hand not long before bis death , that he was then about sixty years old , and thus it must have been , as he was
born in the year 1632 . He was buried in Guestwick church . To look upon him , be seejnecj yet in the flower of his age ; aqd 4 ie ^ in his fail strength arjd vigour o £ body and mine ) . " Mr . G . Say ' s widow was living near London , August 15 , VtVJ ^
house , though the jury brought her in three times not guilty , and she solemnly declared that she knew not that he had been in the duke's army . Vi& » Neat's Hist , vol . iv . p . 542 . * Vid . Non . Con . Mem . vol . ii . p . 194 . J > la a letter with which 1 have been favoured , from Mr . J . Sykes , the present paster of 4 he dissenting church at Guestwick , he writes . " There is no gravestone over Mr . G . Say in our church , or it is obliterated . There is nothing said of him in the church book , but that he came in 1687 , and died in 169 a . ^ You are certain hr misinformed respecting Hunworth , . Asa place of worship it must be
«> JF a much later date than the time of your ancestor . It had been shut up for yean when I came , [ about the year 1776 or 1777 I think ] and was in a ruinous state . 1 opene 4 it and preached there a few years on Lord ' s day mornings ; but it gaye me the ague in winter , and the people were so poor we could not repair it . "J " . £ I began to preach at Briston in that neighbourhood , and continued to do so with J hope a little'success . So poor Hunworth is no more . " But as I perceive that . Mr ! S . Say preached there May 14 , 1704 * ( from Matt . xi . 28 . Come unto me , &c . ) which was but little more than 12 years after his father ' s death , and the sbov © account was given in his own hand writing , 1 cannot apprehend it contain * false information . At least a naceting ^ placc existed there bgt }\ ia th ^ e father > a . * 4 son ' s time , and both preached in it .
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4 SO Memoir of Mr * Gyles SayP
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1809, page 480, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1740/page/6/
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