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^^ b o ^ fi ^ e-o ' clock on the following rooming , owing probably tp a fi | of ; coughing , he burst a blood-vessel . Assistance was soon o btained , and his anxious friends , who had accompanied him to the sea-side , administered to him whatever might tend to alleviate the complaint . For a short time , it was thought the danger was
subsiding , and one of them expressed a hope that he would soon be better , to uhich he replied with his iisual emphasis , JNTo never ; 1 Jeel now as 1 never felt before z- he was , however , perfectly calm and collected , and having uttered a short but fervent piayer , quite in his usual manner , Gracious Tai&er iJwgi'P thy servant ^ and receivqMm to thyself ; , he breathed iiis last without a groan or a struggle .
, * Bis body was removed from JWprthirjg to his house in Northampton Square , London , and on the ^ veni ng of the fi fth of August ittWias conveyed to Sahers' Hall meeting-house , from whence it was carried to Bunhill Fields on
the next day , attended by a number of ministers , chiefly of ihe CalvjnjsUcal persuasion , who had been invited to attend the remains of th ^ ir f riend to his las t home . A . considerable ntimber of the congregation attended , in eighteen mourning coaches , and some
other carriages followed in the xear . The funeral service was
performed by the Rev . Thomas Xia > ler , formerly , and very many years , the respectable pastor of tfoe congregation at Carter Lane , near St , Paul ' s . On Sunday , the 8 t ^ , the Rev . Dr . Lindsay deliv d / . Ra eloquent and pathetic if is fi 9 Hf § $ \ 9 i thv afternoon con-
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gregation at Sailers * Hall , wjj icli we had hoped to have seen frpwei the press before this , and frpm which , in a following number of the Repository , we shall , if the opportunity be allowed us , begird to present our readers with an extract or two . t ; Mr . Worthington , as an author , did not leave many works behiiul
him . His celebrity rests almost entirely upon his merits as an impressive and interesting preacher . He published in 1775 , a Sermon , entitled u A good Character is better than a great Fortune i" in
1778 , a Discourse preached for the benefit of the cbarifysehool in Gravel . lane , on " The Progress of Moral Corruption ^ " and another preached on the 5 th of November in ( he same
year , before the Supporters of the Lecture at Sailers * Hall , entitled , 44 Christianity an easy and liberal system ; that of Popery absurd and burdensome . " Jn 178 < Xhe published "An Essay on the , jResolution of Plane Triangles ^ , / by Common Arithmetic : " in 1782
he publishedia Sermon and Oration ; the one preached at Salvers ' Hail , and the other delivered in Bunhill Fields , occasioned by ^ the death of Mr . Spilsbury . i ? In 1789 he delivered a seraiou
to the supporters ol the New , College , Hackney , which was printed * He printed two or three other sermons \ vhich had been preached in behalf of useful and excellent chariues . Jl is $ aid * his . friends
have an intention of i ; eprinUng all his works ia a small volume *^ Mr . Worthington was the edJtu ^ io f a volume ot hi& father ' s Serillions , and on the death , of that v ^ txefable ipaa he pfi ^ ied uv the ^^ t ^ stant
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Qbituatty * T ^]{ ev * Hugh Worthington . & $ &
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1813, page 549, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2431/page/61/
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