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avocations of his public post were numerous , he remitted no- * thing of his assiduous application to study , to which he constantly devoted fifty , sometimes sixty hours a week , which-he distributed among the six days ., as best suited his other
occasions . He took great delight and was very diligent in the work of preaching , for which he was finely qualified- He was ready to this service in season and out of season , not only among his own people , but all the adjacent congregations . He said to a friend , that he often recollected being one time solicited to preach in London ^ when Mr . Timothy Rogers was present , who broke out into such expressions as these : " Oh preach , by all means preach , I would fain preach but cannot ; and what do you know but you may do some good 3 which you may never hear of till the day of judgment . " One way or other he was much engaged in the concerns of most of the congregations in the northern parts of England . He was usually applied to in
their exigences and readily assisted them with his advices and services , as the occasion might require . His offices sometimes proved ungrateful , and his services not so well received as they deserved . But it was justly observed , that they who pursued measures contrary to what he recommended ^ commonly saw reason to acknowledge their mistake *
He was singularly pertinent , copious and fervent in prayer ; rising sometimes to a rapture . His discourses from the pulpit were always very judicious and pathetic ; addressed at once to the judgment and the hearts of the hearers . He was happy in the choice of his subjects , both as to their importance and tendency . His manner of treating them was rational , clear and lively . His thoughts were solid and weighty , and generally accompanied with hovelty of sentiment . His method was accurate and natural . His style had freedom , vivacity and strength . His delivery was graceful and solemn . And his whole
deportmentin the pulpit was calculated to awe and affect the audience . His administration of the Lord ' s supper was grave , warm and affectionate : and in this service ^ for which he took great pains to prepare his own hearty he was thought to excel himself , as his , performance of it raised admiration . To his very acceptable , able and useful ministrations a
violent fever put an end , on September 1 st , 1726 , in the 52 d year of his age . As his life was peculiarly exemplary ^ his death was tranquil and happy . He met his dissolution with admirable composure and cheerfulness . From the moment in which his distemper seized him , the attack was of a nature and force that
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344 Memoirs of the Rev . Benjamin Bennei .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1807, page 344, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2382/page/4/
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