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    l&ll , Oct . I 3 tlu Aged 69 yearsy Mr ; JOSEPH SEATON , General Baptist Minister , at Chatham : he was born at West Bntterwick , in the parish of OWstow , in the Isle of Axholm .

    iiear lipwotth , Lincolnshire , June 10 , If 4 ® , O > § . When young , he hid a turn for seriousness , and embracing the General Baptist persuasion , he was baptized and united himself to a society meet * ing at EpNvorth and Butterwick , about tf $ O . Soon after , he was

    called to preach at Smeaton , in the £ ai < 3 ( county . In the year 27 *> 5 , he had an invitation to preach to the General Baptist Society , at Smarden in Kent ; which call he accepted , and was afterwards ordained thei r paster .

    In the year 1781 , he removed to Chatham ; at which place he remained so long as he lived . In his first engagements in religion , he was trained up tinder dark Uiews of Christianity ; and he then looked ! with astonishment at the

    sentiments which he afterwards embraced , under feelings similar to thi > sfe . off ; Flazael , who exclaimed ^ Is thy servant a dog , that he should do this great thing

    ?>*—But it being a maxim with the General Baptists , to bring sen - timents to the test of script lire , by fhvestigatitfrt , he began to think his former opinions were not to be reconciled to the character of God , as 'flie moral Governor of the World s not to that mA , exuberant , [ free grace bpGod , so much ex . tolled in the gospel : he doubted whether on the principles of repuu

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    ed orthodoxy , God could be con * sidered as either just or generous . On the person of Christ , also , his sentiments underwent a material change : to believe that Jesus Christ was God , and yet the Son of that God , was such an absurdity and contradiction , that both of them could not possibly be admitted , if he was God himself , the gospel truth , that Jesus was the Son of God , must of course be

    totally relinquished : as Christ also had taught us , that prayer ought to be directed to God hi $ Father , as our Father ; and that this God was a spirit , and that the true worshippers should woiw

    ship the Father , he therefor © concluded , that to worship any other being as supreme , was a species both of superstition and idolatry . During his last illness , ( and no doubt with the most friend *

    ly intentions , ) a Wfesleyan prpfes . sor , of considerable respectaWlityf wished to see him , the object of whose visit seemed to be a cotwer * sion to the trutjfc so called ; but

    Mr . Seatpn ^ who , notwithstaneU ing his extreme bodily debility , retained until the last , the full use of his mental powers , clearly

    stated the ground of his opposite sentiments , with the most perfect firmness and candour ; and though his friend retired , seemingly with much doubt whether ivitfi such

    sentiments he could be saved , it did not produce in the dying Christian the least discomposure of mi nd * As a minister of the gospel , he was so much esteemed by the society at Striarden , that ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1811, page 726, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2423/page/22/