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Sir , EXAMPLES of pre-eminent w-I J , tue , a » d what rn « st ever be united with it , pre-eminent suffering-, are w , or thy of the notice $ nd recommendation of every work , however connected as to sectarian and
subordinate opinions . 1 presume , therefore , to recoircnaeud to your readers the character of Lady Russell , wife of Lord William Russell , put to death in the reign of the most unprincipled of our kings , Charles II . Some
account of the Life of this Lady has been lately published in quarto , with her Letters to her Husband , when he happened to be a few days absent from her , which seems always to have been against the inclination of each of the attached parties .
These Letters breathe an affection which Lady Russell evidently felt to be too powerful for expression . Between the parties it is evident that conjugal affection existed in its most powerful character . Such examples
seem natural * and , indeed , where extremely distressing circumstances do not agitate the mind , one wonders that they are not universal . Yet it is not the case , though it seems difficult to say how it comes to be
otherwise . The most infamous Court of Charles had no temptations for Lady Russell . AJ ] the delight , of her existence centered in domestic love . Her husband well appreciated , before his death , the great disparity of their several
circumstances . He said jiHfctly , his sufferings were nothing , the cutting ; off his head was like the drawing of a tooth ; but he knew that She would ; ab hor life , after his removal , andto induce , Upr to submit to dr ^ g on so painful and hateful an exi » tauc % he gently suggested tfoeir chil' 4 reifc as ^
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J ) r * Carpenter on Divine Influences . ( Concluded from p . 550 . ) B , Y intermediate agency , God often [ aids , infl ; uettces 9 and directs his rational offspring without their , expressly seeking for bis mercy aod
favour ; but whatever be the nature of his immediate influence on the human heart , I see no scriptural warrant for the opinion , that he employs it with * out our seeking for , it . The best or spiritual blessings are promised to the
faithful , humbJe , and devout servants of God , to those who trust in the Lord with all their hearts ,, and Jean not to their own understanding , who acknowledge him in all their ways * whose chief aim is to serve and please him , whose chief desire is to obtain
his approbation ; but where is tlie authority for believing that he affords more than the opportunity of knowing and doing his will , to those who do not fear the Lord , and endeavour to walk in the path of his commandments ?
The fact undoubtedly is , ( I say , undoubtedly , because every one wljo has observed the workings of the heart in connexion with extraordinary acts of sincere and earnest devotion , Qr who has traced out the influence
qf habitual piety , on the dispositions , the conduct , and the happiness of the servants * of God , knows it to be so * and the Scriptures most strongly and expressly declare the same thing )— - the fact undoubtedly is * that he who
knowewr our frame ha& made the eat ? erases ojf piety , and especially th « act of prayer ^ thje ra ^ ans , of cherishing , purify iugv and ^ strengthening tifts aflfeu ^
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Life of Lady Russell « . —~ Dx . Carpenter en Jbiqine Influences . 617
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- 2 je dpesi simply and dryly . No man * , acqu ^ U * ted with Mr * Russell can believe that he had any pleasure in it ? , or did * iot deplore the necessity of making such a communication . And
when Mr . JLuckcock was apostror phiziiig at such a rate in the cause of humanity and Christian forbearance , it ill became him to sport an uncharitable assumption , which , in . the jnildest character of it , is purely gratuitous , , B ;
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» iotive to bis wife , for such gme \ < Du& subn ^ assioi ?* S h ^ e submitted b& exist for thirty yea-p ^ l a oVvoted wrtyx-fa duty , to morals , to r € l % ioi 3 f . . An At am much mistaken * M * % EjiJitQi ; , ; i
this martyrdox& were mot infinatelj ? more paiaful and illustsiau ^ , than those of the different ages whick history has handed down to u& w . iMi 90 much triumph ! It is easy to die like
Lord Riissell , but not to live like Lady Russel-1 . ! And , let me a 4 ds , that the women of Engla « d , are many of them worthy to . class with this their illustrious example , martyrs to diity and patient in well-doing •! HOMO .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1819, page 617, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1777/page/29/
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