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    en their own ideas of the nature and design of baptism , and was averse from changing Into a symbol and instrument of division , a r * ordinance which was designed as an emblem and means of universal charity ; though it should be at the expence of a strict adherence to order in the observance of the Christiaa institutions . After Mr . Foster had been a number .-of years minister at Barbican , it was proposed to open and enlarge thsir communion by the admission of those who differed from the congregation on the questions concerning baptism ; but the motion was lost . This inclined Mr . Foster to dissolve his

    connection with that church , and to accept an invitation , in 1 7 44 , to succeed the judicious and amiable Dr . Jeremiah Hunty in the pastoral charge of the Independent Church at Pinners ' - Hall * . He preached his first sermon there Jan . 6 , 1745 . In 1746 Mr . Foster was called to an office which proved a severe tr ial of his tenderness and benevolence . This was , at the request of the unfortunate nobleman the Earl of

    Kilmarnock , who had been concerned in the rebellion the year before , to assist his preparation for death . The case of the Peer , and the affecting offices to which he was called , are supposed to have made deep impressions on his sympathising heart . These were aggravated by the conduct and reflections of some dissenting ministers—the Rev . Mr . / Pickering , and the Rev , Mr .

    Wilson , both popular preachers of the day ; the former a pastor of an Independent Church , in Jewin-street ; the other of a Calvinisttc Baptist congregation in Goodman ' s-fields , who laboured to give the world an ill idea of his conduct , because his adviqes and counsels were not formed according to * their systems—because he thought it sufficient to recommend his Lordship to a firm reliance on the mercy and goodness of God in Christ Jesus .

    From that time Mr . Foster ' s vivacity declined , till April , 1 7 50 , when he was visited with a violent disorder , from which he never entirely recovered , though he continued to preach occasionally till January 5 , 1752 . Three days after , a paralytic shock so impaired his faculties , that he never regained his

    vigour , but , with some intervals only of mitigation , drew out his existence , in a very debilitated state of body and mind , for twenty-two months , till the 5 th of November , 1753 ; when , in consequence of another severe stroke of the palsy , ten or eleven days before , ( which , however , left him sensible and calm , though it struck all his right side ) , he breathed his ? last . " It was observed , that he never once discovered , in his * On the informatiop oft deceased Friend .

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    Memoirs of Dt \ James Foster . S

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1807, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2376/page/5/