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BIOGRAPHY.
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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
sir , York , Nov . 30 , 1808 , YOU have desired , I would furnish you with a Memoir of my late most worthy and
highly honoured friend , the Reverend Theophilus Lind ^ ey : but it would be impossible to compress the events of a life such as hi& had I abilities and leisure for the
undertaking , within the narrow limits of a periodical publication . The utmost therefore I can attempt is to give a short outline of a few interesting circumstances , in order to assist such of your readers as are unacquainted . with
them , in forming some idea of the extraordinary excellence of his character : and having enjoyed the unspeakable privilege of his friendship and that of Mrs . Lindscy , for a period of more than forty years , it gives me ? orne
sa-* The Editor cannot refrain from expressing in the name of his readers , his thanks to Mrs . Cappe , for her obliging and prompt acquiescence in his wish that she would favour the world , through the medium of the Monthly Repository , with some account of the earlier part of the life of her late venerable friend . 4 i This lady , ** says Mr . Belsham , in his Memoir of Mi \ Urtdsey , attached to his Funeral Sermon , p . 58 , alluding to Mr ? . Cappe , « . « was the early and intimate friend of Mr , and Mrs . JLindsey , and tp her honour be it spoken , almost alone , remained firmly attached to them in their change of circumstances /'
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tisfaCtion , not however unmixed with sentiments -of tender regret ^ to add my testimony such as it is , to the general tribute of affection and respect which cannot fail oi being paid to his memory .
Devoted to the sanctuary from his earliest ^ youth , by a mother eminently pious , the wish of whose heart it was , that she mi ght live to see her son a minister of the gospel ; engaged as his own mind had ever been in the same
honourable cause ; endowed with talents of no ordinary occurrence , and anxious to make the necessary attainments which should qualify him in future for extensive usefulness , the highest expectations were early formed by his friends of the eminence to which he would one day attain , and his uncommon progress in learning ,
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY ¦ ¦ ' ¦ - ' / OF . Theology and General Literature .
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NcXXXVI . l DECEMBER . [ Vol . III .
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BIOGRAPHY .
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MEMOIR OF THE LATE 11 EV . THEOPHILUS L 1 NDSEY , A . M . ¦ BY 31 . US . CAPPE * .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1808, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2399/page/1/
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