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provide handsomely for all of them . f ^ e d * ^ at a g ° ' ° ^ d
aae - regretted not only by his family , but by every member of the n-ligious society to which he belonged . His widow afterwards married Mr . Reader of Coventi v , the father of the well-known
barrister of that name . We have now to enter upon the life of the deceased ; and by those wbo believe in the superintending Providence of God , the writer of this article will not be blamed for beginning ihe detail with the relation of two remarkable
deliverances which he experienced while an infant under his fathers roof . In the one case , a servant girl actually stuck a lighted candle into a whole barrel of gunpowder , which was deposited with many otiers in a private chamber at the
top of the house , where it was supposed they would have remained in safety . She did this in consequence of having the child in her arms , supposing it to have been a barrel of sand .
At another time , the mother was seized with a very unusual anxiety for the safety of the-child , who was then under the care of the aforesaid servant in a room three stories above the level of the
street . Treating it . however , as ¦ ] i i . ^ ' a nidle chimera , she endeavoured ^ banish it from her mind , callj"g herself timid , superstitious , &c * but the more she endcavour-^ to stifle it , the stronger became UiC impresbion that all not
was ri ght above -stairs , till she was irrt sist ! bl y impelled , as it were , to S ° up to satisf y herself whether it was an unfounded fancy or not ; aruj she arrived but just in time to ^ ve her child , who had been sufered to stand by himself upon a TU
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chair at an open casement , and having lost his footing , was actually on the balance upon the sill of the window , and must soon have been clashed to pieces on the pavement .
The deceased often spoke to his friends of these deliverances ; and it is probable that they had considerable influence in forming that character of firm and unshaken
reliance on the Providence ot God , which he always exhibited ; as it was evident that the account which has parents had given him of the circumstances , had rnade a ver y deep impression upon his mindi
At the agft of 25 he married Hannah , tfre only daughter of William Mence of Stourbridge , a man of a very superior understanding , and who had the singular merit of judging * for himself in
matters of religion at a very earl y age . At a time of life , indeed , when few persons have begun to attach any importance to creeds of faith , or religious opinions , he determined , from mature investigation , to forsake the church of Rome , in which he had been educated , and , finding no other church so congenial to his views of things as that © f the Prbrestant
Dissenters , he immediately joined himself to a society of that denomination , that formerly met for
religious worship at P rest wood Hall , the seat of Philip Foley , Esq . an ancestor of the present Lord Foley , and with them he continued nearly half a
century , a consistent , conscientious and respectable member , till the day of his death . The subject of these memoirs lived with his first wife , the daughter of the aforementioned
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Obituary . —Mr . Samuel Parfces ^ 433
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1811, page 433, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2418/page/49/
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