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    Store almost , to the last . He has ieft behind him a very lar ^ e collection of manuscript sermons , which he composed during a period of 46 years at Beckington , and which he had delivered to his people from the pulpit , besides other manuscripts .

    In his theological sentiments he ws-s liberal but firm ; ready to concede to others the right which he also claimed for himself . For many years past he had embraced

    the doctrine of the Divine Unity , and was well acquainted with the controversy on that subject . This probably stood in the way of his election as president in the Caer * marthen Academy . Metaphysics he . had also studied with close at .

    tention , particularly the controversy betwixt Dr . Clarke and Leibnitz , and which of late years has been revived by Dr . Priestley and his opponents . In his sentiments he was a libertarian . As a

    preacher he was not popular ; I mean that his elocution was not that which secured the attention of the multitude . But his discourses were always judicious , connected and practical ; perhaps too much so , to secure the attention of the

    crowd of negligent and superficial hearers . As a minister and Christian , all who knew him will testify that his whole life was in perfect harmony with his ministerial character . Unsullied purity , exten-

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    Anecdotes of Fenelon and his JF * amily . [ From « Thc 5 life ot Fenelon , Arch-Wshop of Cambrny . By Charity Butler , Esq . i * mo . 1810 . J The Marquis be Fenelon , his uncle , took on himself the

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    sive benevolence , unfeigned hiu mility and goodness adorned hi * life and dignified his ministry . He lived what he taught . He was twice married , and has

    left behind him an only child , a daughter , by the first marriage , to whom he was warmly attached , as he had been a widower many years before his death . It was at his

    daughter ' s house , at Coomb ; , near Bath , he finished his course , having the happiness of receiving the kindest attention from a daughter , who revived in his mind all the amiable virtues of her mother , which had dwelt so near his heart !

    He died on the 25 th of May , 1812 , and was interred at his meetinghouse at Beckington , on the 30 th of the same month . His complaint was a disease of the liver , attended with excruciating pain , which he bore with exemplary

    patience , fortitude and resignation to the Divine will , cherished by the promises of a resurrection to everlasting life , revealed by the gospel . The Divine mercy , good , ness and love by Jesus Christ formed the basis of his trust and

    hope ; and on this rock he calmly resigned his breath , counselling and blessing all those who were around him . The funeral service was performed and a sermon delivered on the next Lord ' s day by his friend the Rev . Mr . Griffith . J . D .

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    charge of his education * The marquis ' s character appears to have been truly respectable . The Great Conde u * ed to say of him , that " he was equally qualified for conversation * for the field , and

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    Anecdotes of Fenelon and his Family . 537

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1812, page 537, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1752/page/5/