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the Philadelphia !! Chapel , Windmill Street , near Finsbury Square . An acute observer of the different tenets taught by religious professors , he was never known to he severe against any , his main object being to shew the intrinsic value of truth , when contrasted with error , under whatsoever
disguise it might appear : and to this end he had acquired a knowledge of the languages in which the Sacred Scriptures were first published to mankind Without possessing the advantage of a college edci * cation , without passing the ordeal of examination bv legal authority , yet he was
ever ready to enter the lists of inquiry with the most learned of the age in which he lived : his knowledge of these languages enabled him to trace the true signification of various parts of Sacred Scripture to
their source , and thereby he often discovered that the translators had not given the best interpretation , which might have been given , to the primitive sense of the passage , the Want of which knowledge stands as a hindrance to the union of
mankind in one common faith . The congregation , who have long enjoyed the satisfaction of his pastoral teaching , have to lament that but little is left upon record 6 f his writings ; the readiness with which he was at all times gifted to t proclaim the unceasing- mercies of heaven , and the
arocations of life which occupied his mind , alike diverted his attention from that point . In the hearts of his hearers is inscribed , in characters not easily to he effaced , the remembrance of his glowing zeal for the good of mankind , and for the honour of his sovereign Lord : these are now the
consolations they have left to support them under that privation which the hand of Providence has visited upon them . His remains were interred in TyndaFs Burying Ground , City Road , on Tuesday the 6 th of April , in presence of many of his late hearers , who testified their loss in tears of unfeigned sorrow .
[ Mr . Rait was a man of a catholic spirit , and set the interests of truth above those of a party . Though he differed in many points from the tlnitarians , he was led by his love of justice to expose a malignant falsehood , which was told with a view to
blacken them by a person of the name of Sharp , in the pulpit of Zion Chapel . See the Christian Reformer . IV . 92—94 , and » iso 140—143 , where there are three letters of lUr . Raifs to the reverend gentleman , and one of his , which is a singular and ludicrous specimen of the airs and the Ms assumed by his fraternity , Superciliosutti , incuryicervicum pecus , Qui que ab aliis habitu et cnltn diasentiwnt , vox ,, xiv . 2 o
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Tnstesqtie vultu vendunt sanctummias : Censuram sibi quandam , et tyrannidem occupant , Pavidamqne plebem territant minaciis . JSd . 1
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The celebrated Daniel Encontre , President of the Protestant Faculty of Theology at Montauban , terminated his laborious and useful career at Montpellier , on the 16 th September , in the 56 th year of his age . This great loss , which the friends of religion most deeply deplore , and which has filled the Protestant Church with
mourning , has occasioned a vacancy in the faculty which it will be difficult to supply . The modest and unambitious character of this extraordinary man , prevented him from establishing himself at Paris , where his fine genius and his vast attainments would necessarily have placed him in the first rank among the scientific and learned
men who honour the Institute of France j but those who have appreciated his talents and acquirements will nevertheless pay a just and honourable tribute to his memory . Distinguished by a firm and enlightened attachment to the doctrines of the gospel .
by a fervent piety and exemplary deportment , he could not fail to maintain an ascendancy over his students , and within the sphere of his exertions ; while his noble disinterestedness and his amiable temper conciliated universal confidence and esteem .
He was the first to calculate the probability of his approaching dissolution 5 and having set his house in order , he determined to proceed to Montpellier , at the commencement of the vacation , that his ashes might be united with those of a beloved and only daughter , whom he had suddenly lost at
the age of 18 . She had been his companion , his friend , and the assistant of his labours , and he never fully recovered the shock which his gentle nature received by this afflictive bereavement . It required nine days to perform this last and
distressing * journey from Montanban to Montpellier , and in spite of the tenderest attentions from his excellent wife , and his only son , such was his extreme exhaustion , that they feared each night would be his lasi ; but his unabated calmness and confidence sustained their spirits . The God whom he had so faithfully and zealously served ,
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¦ v Obituary *—Rev . Mr . Rait . — Chevalier Millin . — Dr . Encontre . £ 69
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Lately , at Paris , aged 65 , the Chevalier Miiijn , long known and respected as the Editor of the Magazin Ency 4 ilpp ^ dique 9 and celebrated as the author of many
learned works an archaeology and French antiquities . In this line , he was one of the most illustrious men of the Revolution 5 and , since the forced Restoration of the Bourbons , he lived in comparative retirement .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1819, page 269, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1771/page/57/
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