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for relief , whereas the Assembly were for applying to the bishops alone ; a measure which could never be expected to have any effect , and which was perhaps adopted to hinder or weaken , the force of the petition to Parliament .. Portetfs , the present Bishop of 1 , on don , was of the Assembly . ( See Mr . l . indsty ' s f indivite Ptustleinme . p . 51 , JJ 2- )
September 28 th 1808 , at his house in HammersmitH , the REV . WILLIAM HUMPH RYES , in the 47 th year of his age . He was blessed v . * ith a religious as well as liberal education , and at the early age of nine years evinced a sense of the importance of religion , which he never afterward lost . His views were fi ^ ed on
the aiimstry . and by his friends he was eesigned for the Established Church ; but he became , on full conviction , a decided , though a liberal Protestant Dissenter , from : he perusal of Mr . Palmer ' s
Nonconformist ' s Catechism In the year 177 8 , he entered as a student , at the Academy at Homerton , then under the direction of Dr . Conder , JDr . Gibbo : ^ , and Dr . Fisher ; about which time he became a member of the Church in
White Row , Spitalfields , then under the pastoral care of tr- « j Rev . Nath . Trotman , now of the Rev . John Goode . On leaving Homerton , he \^ # is soon invited to preach to a small ard decayed congregation at Haverhil , in Suffolk , where that county borders on Kssex and Cambridge hire . Here he v .-as ordained
to the pastoral office , Ike . 10 th , 1783 . His labours were acceptable and successful ; but in the year 1791 , he was laid aside from the ministry by illness growing out of a feeble constitution He then returned to London and united himself ( as a private member ) to tin . church in Fetter-lane , at that time under the pastoral care of Vr . Pavies , now living in a vencruble a ^ e at Reading . Relaxation restoring the vigour ot his bodily 3 . nd mental ' powers , he ventured to appear occasionally in . the pulpits of hib friends , and consented to be a preacher # t the Thursday evening lecture , which was then held at New Court ,
Carey-Street , arud is now carried on with great
acceptance at Fetter-Lane : and in the Sp ring of the year 1792 , he was so much recruited as to' undertake the office of rnorning preacher to the Independent congregation at Hafnnierstn . ith ^ to which ftis- ' companion ar the , academy and riend Mr ; ftoWrt Winter , was pastor
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4 * mr and afternoon preacher ¦ . When Mr Winter ,, in the year 1796 , removed from Hammersmith , to become the afternoon preacher at Hanover-Street , Long-A ere , ( where Mr . Worthington was morning preacher ) Mr , Humphryes was invited to succeed him in the pastorship , to
which he readily consented . On the 32 d of March in that year , he was . publicly set apart , the Rev . John'Winter of Newbnry , Berks , preaching on the occasion . Here , he continued useful and behoved t . 'll his death , his ministry being interrupted only by illness . 7 'hree several times he was attacked by the
rupture of blood-vessels ; the last attack was fatal . It took place after the services of Sunday , July 10 th . A journey to Canterbury afforded him no relief ; he grew worse and worse ; was brought home at hie earnest desire , scarcely alive , 011 Tuesday , Sept . 27 th ; and dieel the
next day . He was interred in Bun hi II Iueld > ' JBurying-Ground , Oct . 6 th . when the Rev . \ V . Jay , of Bath , delivered a funeral oration over his grave . On the afternoon of the Sunday following , a funeral sermon was preacned for him , in his former pulpit , by the Rev . Robert Winter . The Sermon and Address are
published , and have furnished materials for this article . —Mr . H . appear * to have been an excellent if not an eminent man . He possessed a good understanding and an amiable heart . If not a scholar , his mind was well-informed-His sentiments were t ^ iose of Calvin ; his creed grew straightcr with his ' years ; and like many dissenting ministers of
the present day he seemed alarmed by the prevalence of free enquiry into a more evangelical strain of preaching ; i . e . a strain in which certain peculiar doctrines arc perpetuahy insisted on , and made the grounds of all religion , and the only motives to virtue . As a p . eacher , Mr . H . was not adapted to tht * multitude : His Sermons Were not
calculated for the meridian of the Tabernacle . But if he did not enjoy ] popularity he never sought it . He possessed the respect , esteem , confidence and love of his own flock , who testified their sentiments by many substantial acts of kindness
•—It deserves to be mentioned in praise of Mr . Humphryes , that be courted the company of youn < students for the mini * itry , and associated them frequently at his table ; remembering , as he was accustomed to say ,-how- much he was gratified a $ d encquragedby the notice pf senior jpii
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6 S 6 Obituary .
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Rev . William Humphryes .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1808, page 686, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2399/page/50/
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