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tist cause loses one of its firmest advocates . Having retired , from , business for some years , and being much confined by the rheumatic gout , most of his time was employed in defence of what he considered to be the truth . More than 20
years ago , he published an Appeal to the Scriptures on the Universality of the Love ot God to Man , supporting the idea , that the mission and Gospel of Christ were designed for the redemption of all mankind . Of which publication a large number closely printed in octavo , of nearly 400 p ges , were distributed amongst different religious societies in the kingdom . Since which he has also printed many smaller things on different subjects , mostly , as well as his larger work , circulated gratis . He addressed several letters to the Rev . John Wesley
on the subject of Baptism , occasioned by Mr . Wesley ' s censuie or the Baptists , because when men were converted , they directed them , as in primitive times , to the duty of baptism ; upon which Mr . Wesley said they might as well tell them to cut their throats . At the time of his
decease , he had in the press , and which will soon he published , Centenary Traces of the Baptists . In early life he devoted himself to God by public baptism , and entered into union with thje Society of General Baptists , meeting in the Black Friars , Canterbury . No one in that society was mpre zealous than he was , in the cause in which he had embarked . The
ministers he much encouraged in their labours , and for years was a liberal subscriber , with his brothers , towards , the support of two or three ministers to preach in the surrounding villages , which was done with considerable success . He built several meeting houses , one
at Broadstairs , one at Sidling , and another at Whits table $ and his friends have reason to suppose , that be principally defrayed the ex pence of another lately -erected in Suffolk .
Particularly did he encourage the young to be religious , and that by exportation , and by distribution of suitable books . On , Lord ' s day evenings he had a parry at his house , for the purpose of engaging in social religious duties , adapted to inform the judgment and raise devout affections in the heart .
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His character as a Christian is well known . * He abounded in acts of liberality to the poor . He was circumspect in his conduct , an of exhibited an example
of ardent piety . Though his deafness prevented his hearing the minister - in preaching or prayer , yet unless illness prevented , he steadily attended public worship , wishing by his example to patronise an institution so much calculated
to advance the cause of * Christianity . In an illness preceding , and which seemed more to threaten his dissolution , than the last attack of disorder , a gentleman who visited him could not but observe ,- —That in the dignity of his mind , the composure of his heart , the resignation of his will
to the providence of God , and in the cheerful solid hope of a future state of happiness , he never saw the power and excellence of Christianity more fully exemplified . | So many concurring ciicum- * stances of his life , made him a living ; epistle of love and piety to all around , and the remembrance of him will be
deeply impressed on the minds of his friends and relatives , who have to lament that he is no mor % ~ The following , being the preface te his book of private accounts , will exhibit the temper of his mind , and shew that he habitually lived relying on the providence of God , and enjoying his mercies with a thankful heart . — " I acknowledge
that all I have comes from God ; it was he who caused my lines to fall in pleasaat places , and gave me a goodl y Heritage 5 and my desire is , that he will be pleased to give me grace to consider myself as , a steward of his manifold mercies ; and enable me to use them to his glory in , promoting the general good of my fellow Christians , my family and fellow-crsatures . "
He was buried at Westbere , where some of the family are interred . A funeral sermon was preached , the JLord's day . following , at the chapel , Black Friars , Canterbury , bjr the Rev . James Gilchiist . The congregation was numerous and attentive , and the subject appropriate to the deceased ,- — 'Mark the perfect man , and behold the upright , Jhr the end of that man is peace . ( ¦ '
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402 Obituary . —William Kingsford , Esq .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1812, page 402, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1749/page/58/
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