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tinguished ability and piety , who on the first of January , 1809 , was ordained co-pastor with the Reverend Dr . Freeman . The talents and the
virtues of this excellent young man are spoken of in the highest terms by all who had the happiness of his acquaintance , and especially by those who enjoyed the great privilege of attending upon his ministry .
' ' The greatest advantages were naturally anticipated from this auspicious connexion . The venerable pastor of the society whose precarious health led him to apprehend that his own labours might be speedily terminated , or at least frequently
interrupted , was delighted with the prospect of leaving the people of his charge , the objects of his affectionate solicitude , and particularly the rising generation , in whose welfare and improvement he felt a peculiar interest , tinder the care of one who
'would follow his steps , and perfect the work of instruction and edification which he had so happily begun . The members of the society also rejoiced that they had found a minister who inherited so large a portion of
the spirit of their admired andbejoved pastor ; and one who would be so well qualified , with divine assistance , to support and to carry pn the great cause of truth and goodness when his venerable colleague should in the course of nature be dismissed from his
labours , or by declining health and the infirmities of advancing years be under the necessity of retiring from his official duties . ' With such an affectionate people' ( saith this exemplary minister of Christ , in a charge delivered upon the solemn occasion
of Mr . Gary ' s settlement as a co-pastor with him ) * my brother has reason to hope that his life will be happy . And you , my friends , on your part have cause for pleasing
expectation . The youth and health of your iiew pastor promise you many years of usefulness and love . And long after I am laid in the grave , the light of his instructions will shed a kindly influence upon your children . '
" Alas ! how little can we see what lies before us . For what is human life ? It is even a vapour , which appears for a little time , and then vanishes away . «* How much nearer to the truth , much nearer indeed than any one at
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the tittte could have s ^ pected , were those sadly prophetic words which occurred a few sentences before in the same discourse , and upon the same occasion . * You are still young : bu | death will soon overtake you . This solemn truth furnishes you with a
strong motive to diligence . The world abounds with comforts and even pleasures . It is a world every part of which displays the goodness of God . But the present scene is not permanent . All its joys are passing rapidly away , and you look for something more substantial . *
• ' These prophetic words have been but too literally and exactly fulfilled . After a connexion of six years , the result of which was the increasing attachment of his reverend colleague , of his numerous congregation , and of all who had the honour and the
happiness of his acquaintance , Mr . Cary was arrested in the midst of his days , and in the prime of liis usefulness , by the hand of death . * His purposes were broken off , even the thoughts of his heart . His sun is gone down while it was yet day , AH his schemes
of usefulness , all his flattering hopes of glorifying God and Christ , and of contributing to the diffusion of truth and virtue and genuine evangelical piety in the world are cut off in th $ bud . And his family , his colleague ,
his congregation , his friends , aud the public , are left to deplore their irreparable loss , and to adore the unfathomable mysteries of Divine Providence which baffle all human sagacity , and whose ways are past findincr out .
* Endued with a vigour of constitution which promised length of days , and which perhaps occasioned the neglect of prudent caution , he was seized in March last with an accidental cold , which not exciting immediate alarm , was not treated with sufficient attention , and which of
consequence went on increasing m - lence , awd gradually sapping his excellent constitution , till in the month of July he found himself incapable of continuing his public services , and retired for a few weeks to what was
conceived to be a more salubnoui climate . He returned somewhat relieved , but without any radical
im-* Dr . FrecinaiTs Screens , pp . ^ %%$
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730 Some Account of the lute Rev . Samuel Cary ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1815, page 730, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1767/page/2/
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