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j « 5 ^ nvedk ^ ^ ki ll of Dr . Blackibu ^ ne was } n constant requisition tfpgr their relief , and his prescriptions were sent to an omineiU
druggist , and made up at the ej « * pense of their generous benefac * tress . The l $ st lciter 1 received from her , seven weeks ago , was dated on the 18 th of Dec . and it
has obtained with me a kind of sanctity as being her last letter . It is shorU but written in her usual manner , containing , many affecti - onate expressions of esteem and regard . 4 ' You I know / ' she says , ** will be kinrj to me , whether I write or not . '*
fc _ On Monday ( Jan . 13 th ) a party of her particular friends drank tea with her , and she appeared much as usual ; they were struck , however , on taking leave , with the fervent manner in which she prayed that God would bless them ; *< as if /' ^ says Mr . . Frend , cc she had a kind of presage of her approaching dissolution . ? . ' On the "jfuesday evening , she had a slight
paralytic seizure , which deprived hej , the next day , of the use of speech : and the pressure on the brain increasing , she gradually sunk into a state , of insensibility , Vithout pain or suffering of any Jdnd , until Saturday morning the 1 , 8 th , when she calmly and tranquilly expired . It was her daily grayer that her last sickness might not he , long , so as tp be a burden to lUer friends , and her prayer was heard .
Happy will the writer of this ifnperfecti memoir esteem herself , ^ . * oy . of fcjxose whojrp it , may jitte . re ^ t , and especially faq ypu , ng ^ ih p , ^ e ji ^ t . embarking \ qi | tjbte ^ ntf ui voy ^ gv jpj JiiujSDaix hf ^ Wj-. ^ in ij ^ ed by the example ^ jp ? al ^ xcejleftjee . ili ^ ibit ^ lQ
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like the subject of ifc ^ if *? to per * fe < : t hoi i ness in the fear of &o& \ & It will be seen that this princip le ^ afflicted , as she was by the most p ^ tjjifu-mfiervous irritability , was hersupport and consolation , a pen . petual incitement to useful and benevolent exertion ; and \ t' likfe
her , they are so happy as to hav « more enlightened views than others of the Christian dispensation , ( tha % bes , t gift of God to man ) and tQ join in a purer worship , let them beware that they do not by a life of thoughtless dissipation , by con ^ forming , to the manners and gain ^* inu the habits of the fashionable
world , around them , insensibly imbibe iis spirit ; and thus bring discredit oil the sacred name they bear . Let not the question which has so frequently been asked wi ^ JU apparent triumph , have the specie ous sanction of their name for
being again repeatedj What tk > ye inoie than others ? ' * How is tbj 6 value and importance of your rt $ * ligious principles , exemplified ia your temper and your conduct K ^ If , on the other hand , this at *
{ empt at the plain statement of a few interesting facts should be read by any who on some subjects think very differently from the cha * rftcter here delineated ; . if if may not overcome tbeir prejudices , at least may it improve their candor ^ and lead them to receive with cau *
tion those vehement theological anathemas , by whatever authority enforced , which consign to < verlast * ipg petdttion whoever * hafl pre ^
sume to quesuon the peculiar , d og * * nas of theiri own ifj 8 eot or partyw r truly C / iibolic spirits so haj » pily eviuceciVby the geoeruus prdmxit ^ rs of- nhe Britwh aftdi I oreign Btibie bocte'lyV has done iiauctito wU $ tk AudL . OXAeiikQjratii tU raftcow
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1812, page 117, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1745/page/53/
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