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Sib * - - J ^ w . l 9 ^«^^ S ^ IJelierfng the foHowing Oraffcn qr < 3 £ , tKe grave of my late e « e " ^ # ^ n 4 ; ^ correspondent * John HAtfroeft , or j um > *
6 urn who died there Sept . 24 th last , which was inserted in the ^ irteffiiiJU ^^ of Oct . 3 , a weekly pafcrt * t > Wtfi&iir at Belfast , to be adjust tribute to htelpte ^ inory , though delivered % a - $£ ifrf * pft * . very different theol ^^ ^^ iJ ^ Atfi ^> those of the deceased ^ I 8 e& 4 & ^ t &v sertion in your valuable Jwpu ^^|^ ite ^ join a brief extract from alettef ^ dr ^ e ^ L r by him to o ^ of his wA ^ IUvSmW "
the calin and consolatorv s ££ t& of ht $ mind , in a reliance on thf B ^ e # i ^ I ness and mercy , when contemp ^ f %% ^' near approach of his decease / -iT ^; W - ^ " I am not , " sajrtf frfc W his «^ , Ai- c noyed by persons Who choosy « Mtbyyl £$ ^ themselves in the thick mist of e 4 t > era £ & tion , nor by those tffco pte ^ e ^ jfcheir fettieies by the meteoric cortf & ^ ift $ s of i | lt *^ acepticism . I hare setSted my clwd remote from both extremes , bat , ac ^ A ing to Jeremy Taylor ' s appio gueWi * toleration , as modernized by Dr . Fraiftlin , that since the great P «? wer oOhe universe bears with all varielte $ , W % should not I bear \ vith thejptt ^ W » short hour ? It is a great idmfWt ^ o
me in the present season of ^ ickfl ^ SAiui debility , that I have carefully « ttled ^ iiw creed in health ., I amle frdm the gloom of superstition , and tbe eaually gloomy notion olf annihUation . I ^> wi late not on the mmte $ > r ipsauwroT ^ P a future state , till ^ S ^ ^ all '' tei # 0 en 0 jp veil , and I receive additional M $ * * f r May you and f , with all th ^ tt ^ rje tticn dear to us , when th ^ in ^ ltattS ^ fiiS
wisely-ordiaiiied hoar a 0 ^ ach ^ ^ Wlh is destined to precede ^ m ^ ^ mm ^ mm the unseen world of life and immortality , be Javoured with equal ti&ftiity mid soundness of mind , how ^ v ^ r ^ iflS ^ Ujy ea ^ h may be situated as to th ^ pweii t reputed extremes of ortbwQm &iM JfftBtK ticism , somewhere beto ^^ flfiE I
have no doubt , the happy mimnt& & { genuine and scriptural (^ ffeSlJ W in which " the way ^ Hng mtoi ^ li ^ ii | h ^ fool /* we are assured , ' ^ WllWw ^ and which the honeftl ; ^ earnest atkd fear , leas inquirer , who VQlli ^ tl ^ ttth IHwto t ^ l l ^ * cannot fatally ratoCAi 4 » fofwiiiai r ^* " ^ Ti ' what «««* w «« r « 8 pk ' be dedided on by an all-MUi . i ^^ d benevolent and indulgent 52 ^ e ^ cFp ther of all , . " - > 3 «» THOMAS POSTER .
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d ^» M « P ^ P ? a % ?^» yesterday ^ et ^ Mb ' b ^ la ^ B concourse of people o | aU denominMi ^ . -rhe mt « t respectateSISS W ^ sburn and its vld-S # a »^|^ | % tb eir last respect f ^^ sireii « A ^ - *^ wim \ md rtibiKaaifa £ * l ^^ they had long ad . ^^^ S Hlpferacterhe " ^ theD > > f « l-^^^ Ml ^ k tneiffiend and tp i ^ Br
iff ^ W . 3 pfell »> - reeoUeet&n time (' MMfOM cs ^ mitous days when isliSMKsjitM S R R « £ f > f f j ? 16 PS ^ # il * ^ 8 c » m to the typhus ^ p tfee iniSable individual whose HIPP UABK . ' Protes-SP jtow and Catholics , felt it f PV ^ O # e ^ L tt > * is inflexible advoiiie ttf puMlcJratlc * , to pay hlni the last « ad Uwrtre of « he grave . When the ^^ k ^ mt ^ ime of 4 lie % iost intimate ^^^ iden ^ sr tSep ^ s of the deceased , ftd ^^^ W ewwundin g multitude in WWmmV ^ Mh ^ ^ rms—a true and n ^ F # b ^ n o W worth of the de-1 ^^ , , ^ a record ^ ull of value to the * trvi *^** -mfp er ^ .... .. ¦
¦ the ten ? oteain aaty of affection and Wjpact to bor darted friend . Before Wmmlttlpg his body for a season to its kl |^ dWfe ^ fn ^ fe profitable to take ^ B » 4 ^ W I ^ r lwP *» P"e ' somtJ things ¦ pSB& ' tsn ? ^ pse , Atid tli ^ re ! nhist express regret ^ to y acqiiSotanfe with John Hancock 4 ^ 0 toiy ) bit ^» et ^ Q recent , hardly yet & ^ mgWmM $ y' years ; but frfem the tMppnjng , t » % a « an # otaace immediately ^ ned > t < rifen 3 sMp , which no accidflit e »^ ip « " , and wWcfe ^ ntim , ed
^ " : S « # W T W » 3 P ' Wfe' . Alttoogb « ' belonging l ^ ri . s-- ^'" --: ; > a ^ ffirfteukhed , 1 understand r i | PMWMPtb think tor himself offtbat nS * t in ^ Srtant of all subjects-Religion : Hid when his views did not iuare . with ttteASk be oonsdentiousjy Mie ii ^ tw ^ Si i ^ th ^ society . It may vc o WiMlil & jarft » f his conduct , that if He ^ not behVe ome things which iliwliwt fiai c 6 to 8 lder essential , it may mpv ' wwSw * l to a fear lest so mncb irlJunce might be placed on believing as
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1823, page 668, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1790/page/52/
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