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patronage * Mr . Kenrick , who was disinterestedly concerned to provide a * succession of ministers properly qualified for their work , and who vvished tp # ee others feel an interest in ^ the support of theological students rather than of an academy 5 had the
satisfaction to perceive tfee growing credit "fcnd utility o&his undertaking ; he witnessed with delight < the improvement of bis pupils ; and there is reason to believe that , had . Providence lengthened his Hie , the academical institution at Exct ^ r ^ humble and domestic as it was .
would have rendered signal service to tfre cause of sacred literature and truth , liberty and virtue . A short time before his own seminar y was set on foot , Mr , IVenrick ha , d been strongly invited
to be lecturer in divinity and presiding tutor iq the New College at Manchester :- | he situation was honourable # nd important ; but ,, upon m ^ fM re reflection , he declined the offer , qf it , ftppa a persuasion that the success of his labours
jn the joint characters of pastor and tutoj ; , w ^ s , qn tjbe . whole , more likely to be promoted ) b y his continuance at ; JEx ^ tcr .-T- ^ TTl ^ i'c , among friends w ^ io were ablo ^ to discern his wqrtj ^ and eage r to acknowledge it , and whose ajtto
tachm ^ ijt him was ^ , ia the highest degree affectionate and . ; Respectful , he passed the short remainder pf his days ., Thi ^ happy connectipn . yyasj atas J soon to be dissolved ; -r-npt ipdqed by the
removal of Mr .. Jvepnckto a . « pqt , wl ^ ich ^ ppe ^^ d to presen t _ even fairer prospect ^ oif usjefujpess and conifoi ^ -but tjy ^ t ^ e § yenf whiqh i ^ tia ^ tening tp disspl ve all human ties ! ' " x -
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In the summer of 1804 he : paid a visit to his fyiends in Denbigh * sh ^ re : his health , Was apparently as strong as ever , and his spirits remarkably vigorous and cheerful . From a short excursion to Chester and Liverpool he returned ,
^ August 22 , to Wrexfeairi ; and , during his walk , on the same evening , in the fields surrotfSiding that town , he was observed su <|* denly to fall . y Mediq ^ l aid was instantly procured : but the spark of life was extinguished , beyond hope of its revival by human skilL At first there was spme reason to
supppse that he bad been precipitated to the ground Jby an obstacle wh ? ch he encountered ip his path , and that he had recjeived , in con * sequence , a mortal blow :, on a clpser examination of the circui »«
stances attending ^ he event , it \ ya ^ , more probably cpnsi <} ered as the . efiect of an apopleq ^ ic seizute ; a complaint with , w |\ ich he had been once alarrtiingly attacked .
tt ^ ny years befpi !^ , and against which , no repetition l of it , being apprehended , lio immediate $ re ~ caution ha ) d beea taken . t > n
Sunday , August 26 , he jvas in ,. terr ^ d , am ^ g his , ancestors , in the Dissenters' - bu ^ l ground a , t Wrexham . - « ... ¦ .. TJie sensation pyqdiac ^ d in his family and frie ^ ag ^ tpxe ter by the intelligence of his dK ? atht can more
. easily l ^ e conceived than represented . In every pl ft ce , indeed , to wpicjh the information wascpnvey - ed ,, it . excite ^ tfec deepest sorro w ofthoselwhpha 4 kpovy ^ nhim ; but
it yas patiiral t | iat Kg should be mp ^; t lamen ^ d in th , at , city which h ^ beeii th ^ principaj scene of his Jabouvs ; and . i ^ is Jiappinesa £ nd where he wUs most respected
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Mem $ te $ ° f the late Rev . Timothy Kenrick . #£
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1808, page 63, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2389/page/7/
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