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Bur tier ' s Sermon on the Death of Moody . 2 rQ 5
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These circumstances , andadisorder in his eyes , brought on by too great an attention to drawing , occasioned him many serious reflections , which led him " to attend the preached word ' at Spa Fields and Tottenham Court chapels , where " a change was effected by the regenerating power of , the Holy Spirit on his heart . " He broke off immediately all his
old connections , and iC became a preacher to his father , who , though a hearer and approver of the gospel , was yet a sjtranger to its power " He went into business and
married . His zeal and talents soon pointed him out to his friends as a fit person to become a minister of the gospel ; and though at first u he did not see his call to that work clearl y / ' he at length cc determined to relinquish all his worldly pursuits'" in favour of it . He was advised to go into the Church , u hut he had some scruples which
he could nqt conquer , " and therefore joined the Dissenters . The only education for the ministry which he received , was at what was called i < m The English Academy , " an institution sufficiently explained by its name , which was
ml S superintended by Messrs . Brewer , Barber , and Kello . In November , 17 cSl , he settled with the congregation at Warwick , with whom he remained to the end of life , having preached with such success , as to raise them from the number of 50 or 60 to that of 5 or G hundred .
Mr . Moody was , as a preacher , active and popular . " For about 13 years he paid an annual visit to London , and preached for al ) out six weeks at a time , in the
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winter , to the vast congregation ( tongregations ) assembling at the Tabernacle in Moorficlds , and the chapel in Tottenham Court Road . He used also in the summer to visit theTahernacle at Bristol for a few weeks annually . "
In July , 1806 , Mr . M . was seized with a paralytic stroke , which was the forerunner of his death , which took place in the November following . His life was actively virtuous . He had many warm friends , and died generally respected . During his last illness this good man felt all the horrors of Cal - vinism .
< c Atout this time " says Mr . Burder , " his mind was greatly agitated with fear ; he expressed doubts concerning his state teivards God , His sins , he said , stared him in the face , and filled him ivith terrorm Sins of oinission and of commission , that once seemed trivial , now appeared to him with horrid aggravations . The evil of sin was awfully displayed * and he saw it to be far more odious und horrible than ever . " P . ** . . . . '
" Now commenced , " writes'the dying man in his Diary , an extract from which is published with the Sermon , ** a new season of trial : laid aside from my worlc , I * zvas called upon to hear tbt voice of Gody the 'voice of conscience , and the voice of affliction , ivhic . h is the 'voice of God \ My disease , whether of rheumafisrn , cold , or palsy , was accompanied ivith great fahitingsy solemn fears 9 and atvful temptations . God . teas reckoning * with rne and calling my sins to recollection . Greatly was I depressed in spirit , and was relieved only as a promise could be laid hold of , and my hopes could exercise . themselves . A prisoner at home , with sleepless nights and tiresQme days , under the constant hand of debility and fear ** P . 39 .
Without suspecting that there must be something wrong in a creed which afflicts the best of men
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1807, page 265, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2380/page/41/
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