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1 P& 8 * TftfcCt * entitled < c Serious Reflections * by a Rational Christian , " was printed , tout not published . Six copies of it were given to each of his children , and a few to some particular friends , "They will be a bequest to Ms children of more \ altie , and a greater blessing
than any thing he could leave behind him . Ajid if ever they be permitted to be made public , they will be of as ^ great advantage to the world , as they are to life own family ; . As he claimed the right of private judgment for himself , he was ready to grant it to others . In
order to disseminate these liberal and Christian principles ,, he published , ( without his name to it ) a sfnall edition of ' Mr . - . " Locke ' s Letter on Toleration /' by which that invaluable treatise is become accessible to those who ye not in possession of the larger works of that author , in which it is included . His
firm belief inthe , tmth& of Christianity produced a practice suitable to such a persuasion . A sincere and rational sense " of religion , and its duties , bad an . influence on all his actions , and shewed itseif in his : public example and
pnvate conduct . He had such a regard for social worship as never to neg * 1 &ct the public exercise , of it 3 when his health permitted him . He was a conslant observer of . family-prayer , and on every ^ nday : evening , whatever
com-I $ ny was ,, in , the house , they were ex-HC ^ tcd to attend to his reading some « # a $ on , or religious discourse , which he ¦ toad previously selected for that pur-BP $ e y of these 1 w , as a witness to , these % t twenty years He . suffered much frcrn , tli £ rheumatism for the last two of iiho
3 ^ 3 life Jk ^ t pain , however great , could make ,, him utter an impatient complaint , or a murmur against tjie .. dispensations , of Providence . It served a fetter pur-pose , by preparing tys . mind , as a warning to him , of the W&il event which he saw approaching . H ^ bodily powers decline ^ gradually , put , his strength of mind remained in
fall vigour . ; fjs , iatellccts and memory ^ cre ^ njurapaiired tp the last f He was cpltiposed ^ n 4 r cojlc ct ^ ci > al ways sensi bl c of his f ^ iling ^ nd aciuiowle dging them ; c ^ y ^ ssiri ^ hi 3 own luiworthjiness of the icast- of Cod ' s favqurs , but ' never relin-J ^ jM ^ O the fr ojp c pi immortality wh ich Mo ^ b ^ given . hirn . though Jesus Chrisu ¦ MlSis , hope ., he humbly and eaincstljr Sg ^ rac ^ d , a . n < i , h ^ el 4 f ^ to the end-** joined frequently in prayer with ¦ ° me onc of the family , arid as often jj Sged their united prayers to God for ¦ ln * . He took a most affectionate leavs
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of the Duchess , and of % his crhildien , and of those who were in the hoiite ; and a few days after , when nature was quite spent , he expired without a gToan , dying in peace with theworUI , his family , an-d with God . "
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Further particulars of the REV . B . DAVIS . — [ Vid . p . 18 $ , ] This truly amiable man , though quali - fied by his respectable talents and literary acquirements for some n ^ ore public and hpnournble station , spent the greatest part of his life in humble and obscure situations , which are not always very favourable to . intellectual and moral
impro vement , being in general unconn ected ^ with strong incitements to industry and application , and wanting , in iinmediatechecks on indolence and Joeglcct ., la classical attainments ^ Mr . Davis was acknowledged to excel : he read the Greeks and Roman Classics with critical
exactness , as appears from his notes in manuscript . His compositions were marked : for strength of thought , perspecuity of arrangement , vigour and often elegance of expression . As a man , he , was all benignity and love ; possessing ^ cultivated mind , and a most benevolent heart , he considered all mankind as his brethren , without distinction of country , colour ,
sect , or pnrty . To say that he had no imperfections would be , what cannot be said of any human character s and that the fail ings of a man of his profession and sentiments should be misrepresented and exaggerated is what might be naturally expected . Of him it may be said with the most exact correctness , that he lived contented and died resigned .
It is but proper to observe that he wag deeply affected , by the uncommon . kindness and attention , shewn him during the whole of his illness by the principal members of his congregation . In the following extract from an excellent sermon , delivered at Evesham on occasion of his death on 13 th of January , 1811 , by the Rev . Dr . Toulrnin , will be found a short account of his life and death .
" The occasion on which I address you , niy Christian friends , bring * these reflections and exhortations , * home to
* - The subject of the Discourse addressed to the congregati o n was the ' Perf manence of Christianity , " ftora Rcv » xiv » 6 * ** And 1 , saw another angel fly in the midst- of heaven , haying the everlasting g 9 Spelf to preach unto- them that dwell on the earth . * ' The introduction was a review of the existence of ChVistianity , through past ages , from \ M
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Obituary . —Rtv . B . DuvU . # 51
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1811, page 251, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2415/page/59/
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