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Above a year before his death , he lost his sight , and was at the same time struck with lamensss . But he was huirTbly submissive to the divine will , and never suffered any murmuring * to break from his lips . When he was unable to turn upon his bed , he said to those who assisted him ,
that lie wanted to go home , not knowing * that h = c was then hastily approaching his last home , where he now resteth , and is at peace . He would have rejoiced , if he could have foreseen it that he is now succeeded by a thorough Unitarian . This imperfect tribute of respect is paid to him by an old friend , W . II .
P . S . The Taunton paper says , that Dr . Toulmin died in the 75 th year of his a ^ e . This is a mistake , as he told me above two years ago that he was 73 . I mention this , as you will probably communicate an enlarged account of that excellent man .
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ginning of July , 1807 . From that period to his death , he discharged the duties of his station in a manner honourable to him self , beneficial to his friends , and ornamental to the cause which he had espoused By an assiduous application to the acquire , ineiit of religious knowledge , his mind was
amply furnished , and by mature delibera - tion , his ideas were generally marked by clearness and precision ; in his opinions of rclig-ious truth , he had experienced considerable alteration during- the last seven or eight years ; but as no doctrine was embraced by him in place of his early-received sentiment , till he had deliberatel y
examined it in all its bearing ' s , and duly weighed the arguments on both sides of the question , it is easy to perceive that , on some speculative points his judgment was not decided . Although he was inclined to retain the Arian hypothesis , yet he firmly maintained the perfect Oneness of God , his unrivalled sovereignty and claim to religious adoration . From the
Sermon delivered at the General Baptist Assembly as mentioned [ x . p . 319 . ] of this publication , bis views of Baptism and General Redemption may be ascertained . In his private conversation he "was pleasing and instructive ; in his public labours he was affectionate and engaging ; his me . thod of conveying knowledge and instruction was easy , yet impressive , — 'he w ^ s fervent without enthusiasm : bold without
rudeness 5 bis language was nervous jet plain ; in all his deportment there was a modesty , whieh to a stranger might appear to indicate an uninformed mind 5 but which spoke to those who knew him a dignity of character and intellect . Tfie duties of a husband and a father were discharged
with faithfulness and affection ; and wp have to lament , that a widow and four small children are left to deplore his early death . His interment took place on Wednesday the 9 th inst . when a tribute of respect was paid to his worth and memory by addresses od the melancholy occasion , from Mr-Robert Pyail , elder of the Society , —Mr . T .
Rofe , a preacher in the Wesleyan connexion , resident in Headcorn , and Mr . S . Pobell of Cranbrook . A funeral sermon was preached on Sunday , the 13 th , by Mr . Benjamin Marten of Dover , from Heb . xi . 4 "He being dead yet speaketh ;"
, the service was introduced by a short address from Mr . S . Dobell , prior to the devotional exercises , a large company v * aS assembled on the occasion , anxious to shew their attachment to the decease ^ , of whom
it could not be said , " The righteous perish eth , and no man layeth it to heart .
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526 Obituary . —Mr . F . Webb . —Mr . J . Coupland . —Professor Zimmerman .
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August 2 nd , died at Barrington , irtthe county of Somerset , to which place , after a long and diversified life , he had retired , Fjbancis Webb ;—the friend of mankind 5 and a friend to their sacred rights and liberties both civil and religious . He was
born at Taunton in the year 1735 . A regard to the expressed wish , or ratber injunction of the deceased , that his death may be announced only and precisely in the above forrn ^ and that he may not be made the object of posthumous praise ^ prevents the pen of friendship from 1
attemptingto give at least a faint delineation of a character , whose splendid talents and eminent literary attainments were surpassed only by the moral excellencies with which it was adorned , and which were cherished and strengthened by a firm faith in the important and distinguishing" principles of Unitariauism .
[ Notwithstanding' the wish expressed by the deceased , we earnestly hope that some friend will favour us with a memoir of him . Ei > - ]
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On Sunday , August 6 th 1815 , died at Headcorn , Kent , Mr . John Coupland , assistant-minister to the Society of General Baptists at that , place . This amiable man had not completed the 30 th year of his age 5 lie was born ( it is presumed ) at Conning's-|> y , in Lincolnshire , on August 28 th , 17 JB 5 . His early piety led him to embrace a life of public exertion 5 he began to preach at the age of eighteen , and in the
course of the following year entered as a student , at the Academy of Mr . Dan Taylor , at Mile-End , London . At the expiration of two years he removed from the Academy to Cauldwell , in Derbyshire , where he remained only a few months , being invited to Headcorn an Kent ; this invitation he accepted ^ and removed thither in the be-
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Lately , at Brunswick , in the 73 rd year of his age , Professor Zimmerman , tfee aU " thor of the work on Solitude .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1815, page 526, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1763/page/62/
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