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Memoir of the late Rev . Noah Hill . f 1 1 HE Rev . Noah Hii . l was born B at Cradley , a large village in the neighbourhood of Stourbridge , Feb . 2 d , 1739 . His parents were much respected , both for their character and worldly circumstances . His father died in early life , and left five young children under the care of his widow
who was well fitted both by piety and good sense , to discharge the duties devolved upon her hands . Noah , who was the only son , discovered an early taste for the Christian ministry * and was the favourite scholar of the Rev . Noah Jones , a man of
distinguished abilities , who kept a school < vith great reputation in that place , and was the stated minister there-And under his instruction this promising youth received his classical
education , and was well prepared for entering upon his academical course , which he did in the seventeenth year of his age , under the tuition of the much-esteemed Dr . Caleb Ash worth ,
at Daventry . Such was the character he maintained and the improvement he made , that upon finishing his studies , he was chosen assistant-tutor to that excellent man . In this office he
continued ten years ; and how well he acquitted himself in that important station , appears from the following extract of a letter directed to his afflicted widow by a highly-respected friend , who was himself one of his pupils , and must have been a competent judge , having himself been engaged in the same office .
" When I entered Dr . Ashwortlfs academy , Mr . Hill had resided there nine years ; four years as a student and five as assistant-tutor , in the department of classics and mathematics . In the year 17 O 6 , Mr . Coward ' s Trustees appointed a second assistant for
the classical department only : after which Mr . Hill gave lectures to the first and second year ' s classes in Euclid , in algebra and plane trigonometry , also in geography , in logic , in the philosophy of the human mind , in the first principles of moral philosophy , in the doctrines of natural theology and in the theory of civil government . This course was finished in two yeaita . The lectures were very
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interesting and instructive : Mr . HH 1 possessed great felicity and copious , ness in illustration , and was very strict in examination . He was particularly clear and excellent in his mathematical lectures ; which made man y of his pupils wish that he had
carried them a little further than the elements of that beautiful and attractive science . Mr . Hill was very ami able in his manners , and possessed the confidence of the Principal , and the affection of the students in a very high degree / 1
After having spent so many years in training up others in the Christian ministry , he was no doubt well fitted , and he felt himself strongly disposed , to engage in the public and stated , as he had long been in the occasional duties of that office . This being onct
generally known , he soon received , as might be expected from his acknowledged character and abilities , several invitations from highly respectable congregations in the country , to settle among them . But after serious deliberation he chose to accept one from a church of the Independent denomination in Gravel-lane , London , upon
the removal of the Rev . Dr . Gordon from thence to America ; and with what diligence and fidelity , acceptance and success he fulfilled the duties of this important connexion is nteSl known , and has been publicly announced from the press in a furiera ! sermon preached on occasion of riis death to a numerous assembly of his
mourning friends . Such was the undisturbed harmony thsit subsisted between this excellent pastor and iis beloved flock , that nothing but Ins death , which happened the 26 th ot
January , 1815 , would have put a period " to his labours among * them , unless a painful disorder , to the return of which he was often subj ect ,
had obliged him to resign his connexion with them , which he did m an address full of affection for their merest , in the year 1808 . eW Some of the leading features ot nis character are thus drawn by the Mr , Hooper , in the funeral ™ rxnon ~ " As a man , in domestic life he \ an affectionate husband , for a sri ^ period a tender father , : in < l evtf
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1815, page 186, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1758/page/58/
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