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Dissenters' Magazine , and in the Monthly Magazine , a memoir i * £ bim : to a-volume of Sermons of the iate Mr . Crabb , of which Mt . W . was the editor , he likevrise . prefixed a memoir . For some years before his death , he promised his £ riends a volume of sermons , and a part of it , it is believed was some years ago actually in the press . Whether any materials
are left fox ihe completion of such a volume , is not perhaps at present ascertained ; should it be practicable , there can be no doubt of its being a very acceptable present to the numerous friends who honour his memory and lament his loss * E . B .
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Ra ? w W . Severn * The Rev . Wm . Severn , whose sudden death we announced in our last , ( Wrapper , p . S . ) was born afr Nottingham . His father was a re ^ - spectable wine merchant in that :
pteae , and had two other sons . William * the subject of this memoir , from his earliest years manifested a strong propensity to the ministry , and at the age of sixteen became a convert to the doctrines and
discipline of Methodism ; a circumstance , which , since lie arrived at years of maturity ,, he a < ev « er ceased to deplore * Qj& the declaration of his determination to folloyy ^ Mif . Wesley , he was expelled from hittfatber ' s house , and obliged to take refuge with MV . Wiarwick , father of the present
© n Warwick , of Rotherham , and ^ under- his protections became , not only oneof the most popular preach ers * ,, but a frienjl and confidential companion yf Mr » Wealsy himself tfo * two , yearo * < tie was the . travels lini ^ a ^ ociate ^ of tfeai ; extmordinary persoa , who ; % p £ at e > from letters to Mi * Sev ^ rn ^ to Jbwe g ^ attv ad-
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mired his taleafca , zeal * ad intrepidity . Of the period when Mn S © v ^ ern began to waver ia his attachment to his profession as a teacher of the doctrines of Methodism , no
satisfactory information * cat * be obtained 3 butt , from a short journal ' now in existence of his daily labors ^ during part of his t ^ vrentieth year ^ it is manifest , in every fresh mema mndum ,, that his , mind was then
very little at ease , and that there was a something in his situation which rendered it very irksome ; His daily prayer was for more faith , for a ffrnier conviction , aiad for greater assistance from God in the duties that lay before ^ him . Tiw&
journal is continued' only for a few months , but it is ascertained , that soon after that period , be went tq * Edinburgh to study divinity , Fvom this seminary he returned * , An course , and was settled as pmiehe jy with » small cangregatiiDn of * as ^ be phrase
is , moderately brthodox di $ seater » $ fe Weedon ^ becjcin J ^ orthaoap ^ onshi ra * From Weedon hs was called W Welford in the same eogtitywaBd * afterwards removed to Hinckley ia Leicestershire ^ in all wh | eh sttna- ^ tions his services and characterwem >
greatly admired and apfHfoved- H must have been during his / iesidenie ^ at Hinckley that hie Unitai'iaBh prcH pensities took a decided ton ^ . ; for from thence ^ he was invited to a congregatiipifat Norwich un 4 fer that denomination . Kidderminster had
the > benefit of hiaK ministerial' services * ome yeai * s before < bi $ tran * v latiom to Hullv whem to lived betw-eennveaudsix , years . Whejre % evar he resided ,, his character ,: fou the practice of evei « y virtue , that can adorn a man and a Christian
minister , stood deservedly high , hut it has not come to the know * ledge of the writer of % hm that hit course w / as « distinguished by sany very striking oqcurrencei . JAuving at
the whole of his resi ^ eui ce HulJ | « q correct waa every , part off hi * conduct ^ that the breath of calum ^ nious bigotly has not ^ veiiiwti ^ W ^ ed to aoil his well-earaed title Ixttbe
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Sa > Obituary . — -Reft . W . Sever * .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1813, page 550, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2431/page/62/
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