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dents Mr . Evans , who was nearly related to . Mr « . VViche , covnmunicared this letter in J T $ 7 , to the Protestant Dissenter ' s JMn ^ iiy / uK * .
( iv . 434 . ) As that work had * mly a contracted circulation , and iuis lon « been discontinued , it is probably possessed by few ot your readers . On this presumption , I transcribe the letter for your service .
lioxton Square ^ DEAR SIR , De ( Ch-7 ber 14 , 1 / 68 . In compliance with your request , I now inform you that the worthy Doctor died in the beginning of his 86 th year ; my ring says , aged 85 ; but I think he was born in the month of June * which
was 85 years before he died , and about five weeks . If I remember right , he was educated under Mr . Rowe * . He has appointed no publications ; hisjheretica ! testimonies are unfinished , though there are large materials thrown together . Four discourses on the Athanasian , Arian and Nazarene conceptions
of God are finished , arid I hope will be published . A discourse on regeneration is also finished ; this 1 have a desire nii ^ ht be published . And there is one on Christ being made a curse ( which I have the promise of rcadiug , ) that may ulso see the lightf . Kis Adversalia and interleaved Bible he ordered to be destroyed . He forbade any funeral sermon . \\\ $ library is now selling . As to the previous circumstances to his removal from us , they lay thus—he found
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himself made unhappy by his servants , and was desirous of paying another annual visit to"Hawkherst , where he kept the mansion-house unoccupied , only by himself , four or five days in a year . I
encouraged him to take the journey , in hopes that varying the scenes would have given him some revival ; his niece leister , of Ware , and her husband go * ing along with him . And indeed , he performed the journey heyond expectation ; and was better one day or two , as he himself wrote . But on Friday
evening they perceiving him change , sent for an apothecary . However he came down stairs Saturday morning , breakfasted , dined , and supped : and on Sunday morning did the hke ; nay dined ; but at drinking tea , they saw the grasp of death conspicuous ; carried him up to bed , pulled oil his clothes , to which he shewed an aversion ; put him into bed , in which he presently expired .
His funeral he ordered to "be very private , onJy three or four ministers ; no pall-bearers . He even forbade feathers to tke hearse , hut that was not complied with . Four coaches and a hearse was ail the funeral appearance . Four ministers preceded the corpse down the ground , to the family vault in Bun *
hill fields . The two first , Radcliffe and Price , who are preachers at the Poor Jewry-lane , to which place he stood related as their former teacher . Amory and Fleming were next the corpse . Radcliffe made the oration , which was very long , and would have been better had it not have been so , yet was characteristic and highly descriptive | .
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49 b Z >/\ JLardners Monument *
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* This was probably a mistake . Mr . Rowe was the tutor of Watts , who was ten years older than JLardner . Dr . Kippis says that JL .. " was removed from the gramrnar-sc hool to a dissenting academy in London , under the care of the Hev . )> r . Joshua Oldfield , " and that " in the sixteenth year of his a ^ e , he was sent to prosecute his studies at Utrecht , under the professors D * Uries , Grarvius , and Burjnan . "—Lardner ' s Life , p . ii . J * f _ ^ . ^ _^_ ^—^^ ^ K ^^ ^^— ^^ m ^ a ^ m ^ H
f This was published among the posthumous sermons . Worlds x ,. $ 06 . The << Discourse on Regeneration , ' * appears to have been suppressed . The *« Heretical Testimonies , were completed and published in 1780 , by Mr . John Hogg \ then a dissenting minister , since a banker at Exeter , under the tide of ** The History of the Heretics of thu two first Centuries alter Christ . " Works , ix . 219 . \ An " Extract frttm- ' an ' Elog-uim * ' # n Drv Lardner , by Mr . R ' adcUfFe * ( Life , p .-cix . ) was probably a > p » rt :-. 6 f 4 i the orution . * * .. • ¦ -
surely little better than one of the excxneable Jollies of the ivise . " He rejoiced still more some years after , when he was favoured with the liberty of publishing these masterly cli courses , to meet the wishes and importunity of two friends , whom he had been prevailed with to gratify with a sight of them . " Prot . Diss . Mag . 1797 . iv . 129 , £ cc , Mr . W . published the " Discourses" in 1784 , and prefixed a « advertisement as editor . See Lardner ' s works , x . 600 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1808, page 486, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2396/page/30/
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