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64 Memoirs of Dr . James Foster *
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suited * as it were , his ashes ; for it is said ,, that after his interment some persons collected themselves over his grave , and danced with airs of triumph . This triumph was as transient as it was mean and barbarous . On his tomb his name was recorded with honour : — - ¦ » - <* EPITAPH OF DR . JAMES FOSTER . " Here lie the Remains' of James Foster , D . D .
j Bptn at IJxeter , in I ^ evonshire , ; \ 6 th Sept * 1697 * > Early trainedj up to academical stu ^ i ^ s , Arid prepared for thp Sabred \ Vork to which he . devoted himself , By diligent researc&fs into the Holy Scriptures , And the assistance they afford as a guide to natural reason ^ As also by serious piety , elevated thought , Happy fticilrty in composing , and fluency of expression , Ufa judgment in Divine 'Things not guided by the opinions of others # Produced many discoveries and writings out of the common way , : ;¦ .. -Somfeitt defence of the Chn ^ stian idigiori But most iti recommending !<> v ^ towards"God and men . > Notwithstanding the censures which fell upon him , He yias candid towards ; all whom he believed sincere , _ , ' . .- Bene $ < : ent , to the neglect of himself * Agreeable and useful in ^ onyei ^ ation , -, ?
, * And careful tQ avoid even the ^ p ^ earance of ey \\* . I ^ le began his ministry in the West pourUry , 1 tJa ^ r . great discouragements , . ~ ' ^ nfefc ordai ned Pastor r in July , 1 J % 4 > at Barbican , in London , And , after ' twenty years ' service there * Reitaowd to Pinner ' s-Hall , in the same city . Ib December , 17 ^ 8 , the University of Aberdeen , in Scptland x Cbnferred on him unsought , the degree of Dpctoi : in Divinity . His elocfpence procured him many hearers , of different p ^ rsuasiohs ^ c / fill-at length , by his great assiduity , in preaching , and writing , i \ He ^ unk inta a nervous disoxder , Which > ihcrc ^ -asihg upon him for two or three yearsj Put an end to his life , 5 th Nov . 1753 ^ ! , In the 57 th year of his age /'
The > ^ bove inscription , on a handsome tomb in Bunhillfields , is not the onl y memorial of the high estimation in \ yhich his talents anci virtues were held . John Billingsley , Esq . of Oakhill , in the parish of Ashwick , Somersetshire , SQni ^ years since re-built , in a modern and . haftdspmesty f ^ ' qf architecture , the house in which Dr . Foster ^ in his yonnger
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1807, page 64, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2377/page/8/
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