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Rev . John . JZeverley * The Rev . John Beverley , who lately died at Hull , aged seventy-nine , was forty-two years minister of the Unitarian chapel in that town . : >
He was born at York , of respectable parents , and had bis grammar- learning under the Rev . J , Root , minfister of the chapel in St . Saviour ' s Gate in that city . For the prosecution of academical studies , he went , in th'e- eighi teentb year of his age , under the care of the Rev . Dr . Rotheram of
KendaL He was the last student admitted into the institution there , which produced many learned and pious rnenf , whose praise has been and will continue to be in the ponconformist churches * .
-After the death of Dr . Rotheram he removed to the College of Glas - gow . Here he had gceat advantages of Jmprovero ^ en-t in every branch of literature , which he did not neglect . Dr . Leechman filled
* t that time the theological chair , who was justly admired by all that knew him for the extent and profiindity of his scriptural knowledge , the liberality of bis opinions and
, ——^ imL ^ t-fc ^ . ,. IIU ,.. r i * ¦ u- ¦ ¦ ¦ - - - For jpi Account of Dr . Rotheram , *| d faistfapils , ace our 5 th Volume ; p . »* 7 , * c . E » .
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the candour of his temper . Mr . Beverley was happy , moreover , iri the acquaintance and friendship of several excellent young men whd were then at Glasgow , from South Britain . The late Mr . G . Walker , Mr . Cappe , Mr . Urwick and others were his collegiate
associates . On ^ ompfeting his course of education he was , in 17 ^ 7 * chosen ; assistant to the Kev , Mr . Cordirigley , of Hull , and , on his decease , ihe next year succeeded hirn irt the pastoral office .
This office he diligently and faithfully executed , till a paralytic seizure , in 1799 , laid him aside from public services , and confined him almost entirely to his house / in' a state of gradually io * Creasing debility , both mental And Corporeal , to the day of his death .
What he was 4 < the day tvill declare . ' * In the mean time ^ U who were acquainted with him know that there was much in him to adrnire and ! to imitate .
His heart appears to have beeii early imbued with piety . In a letter written io him whilst be was at Kefidat , by his affectionate pastor fttfd'frieWri ,. ' Mr . lluot / on te
the subject of ^ xniipo ^ a ry prayer , the latter remarks that he Would be much tiidt ^ d in the / iieryicfe vby his acquaintance witli sCrjptiital
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY ¦ ¦ ¦¦ - ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ - . ¦ - ¦ ¦ ¦ Op Theology and General Literature .
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No . LXXXI . SEPTEMBER [ Vol . VIL
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1812, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1752/page/1/
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