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iSio , May io 3 atDavefltry , aged 75 , after a gradual decline , the Rev . THOMAS ROBINS , who had been for some years minister of the dissenting congregation , and divinity tutor of the academy , in that place , in which offices he succeeded the Rev .. Dr . Caleb Ash worth , but had been long incapacitated for the
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: : ¦ . f . . N - ; GENERAL B APT 1 STS * ASSEMBLY .
The annual meeting * & the General Baptist denomination , was hold on TfUesday , June IX , in the meeting-house , "Worship Street , MoorfteWs * It was numerously attended and harmoniously conducted . We' \ inderataod that the
churches in the connection were generally * eporte 3 to be Nourishing . Four , viz . Lutton , Chatham , Lewes and * rrowb » ridgc , arc in want of ministers . The funds of the-. Education Society are
better than heretofore ; The Unitarian churchy at Soham , under Mr . Otsborne , was proposed for admission intothc Assembly , Messrs . Wright , of Wisbeach , and Philpot , of Safton Waklen , were appointed messengers to the xebrthern churches m the connection ^ ¦
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discharge of them by t&c Ib $$ of his voice . He was a man of distinguished ability and exceUeuce , though but little Tcnown in tfie world , By reason of his excessive modesty and seliF-diffid ^ ncc- "y ^ f't'Pp ^ i in a future number % to gratify our jreaders with some memoirs of his life and character * , S . V *
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The sermon to the assembly wai preached by Mr . George Smalifield . From Matth ^ v- * & he downed w The Importance and Necestity of Xearnieg to Christian Ministersi" The preacher , w ith mtKh courage and faithfulness , but at the fcfcne t ^ ne with prudence and tendernese , pointed out the defect of thd General Baptists in the education of mx * nkters , and earnestly called irpott them
to remedy it , and to provide the mean * of keepifig up their respectability , and of proving their right and title to a naxoe adorned by Xiale , Foster aad Bulkley The audience allowed their accustomed candour in tluiir approbation of theser * men ; it was requited to be printed , aw
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SOS Intelligence ^ -Genefai Baptists Assembly .
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Btrt the A * at % issue * bills which are nciiei' pfk > t € 8 ted 9 / Whcxl drawn on die firm of—Wife , Children and Yricitds , Though spice-breathing g ^ Ies o ' er his caravan hover .
And around rum . Arabia ' s whole fragrance'de $ cends > , The merchant still triicks of the woodv Bines that cover ^> ThebQwV inhere he sat / with—Wife , Cliildreh and Friends .
Though valour still glows '< in ' his life ' s dying embers ,
The death * wounded tar , who hii < $ lours defends , Drops a tear of regret , as he dying * % » - members How blest was his home with— \^ ife t Children and Friends .
The day-spring of yotith , still unclouded , by 6 orrowy Alone on itself for enjoyment depends ; ¦ . But drear is the twilight of age , if it borrow No warmth from the smiles of—Wife , Children and Friends *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1810, page 308, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2405/page/36/
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