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good opinion © fall-with ^ fcom ? te Tisfcs connected . Mr . Severn * s fkvourite study was sacred writ , and itjnay he safely said , thrift in scriptural knowledge he had very few equals . He «* ed to lament his own
deficiency , and , * forking back to the part he ' acted m his yduth , to wish that the time he then spentin teaches what he had not studied and did not understand , had been spent at college . But his modesty was
equal to his acquirements . He was a decided Unitarian 3 on same of the nainor topics in the Unitariafi creed * however , retaining the opinions of his early days . As an advocate for Inquiry his zeal was unbounded : he loved a free-thinker
iirhisJheartj of whatever sentiments * prc ^ iSed he yfcas an honest man . Hot im > re zealous in searching for troth , than : i » its propagation , he ireveitsbanne&r im proper occasions , tKe « aNerti © w q f it . A bigot was the ^ &foj&ct of fate peculiar deftestattari , Md if ha met with an Unitahe
rikttJ bigx > t , ^ as sometimes did , neneet ^ ftiited -to Urge upon his undeist&fciding' the Inconsistency betofefestftiV principles and his ; pracr tUi . Mri & $ qerti was a truly good &aiiy ^ d ^ a Mthfpl follower of Jer | u « : > ^ teriBt- ^ or " course , his death , awftai to all around him , was . not
napr ^ pared for , as far as respected fei ^ fat M ^ "e prospects , for he had alivay » Yrv&d asorie ^ who must giye sin-accolirit j and as to , his ' frifends , ^ either presumptuous in all otting to 1 htm his statidn in the future
wqtM , » 6 r dotibtAiTconcernitig it , thay have the ctonafort to reflect , thd , t : the remembrance of him . will always be sweet , and that his name is never mentioned but to receive awilling tribute of tespect and esteem . He was in hi ^ 69 thl year , to
wh ^ n Pravi < teo < ie thought fit call Jii ^ away . To the hou r of his death tio ^ p ^ t of hrs vigor and vivacity had failed him , though sometimes , duriiv ^ itlie > ffe » t } i wo y 6 ara , sytnptotns hadcgLpp ^ ared of the disorder which « att * £ dlrihl btf : lOn ^ hte v ^ # y ie ^ ett-
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hi'g' of his dtssolution , half an how before he became lifeless clay , he was in cheerful conversation with a friend , as full of anecdote as at any former period of his life . G . L .
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Rev . JT . Jones , Died at Clifton , near Bristol , on , Thursday , May 2 Tth , 18 IS , in the 33 d year of his age , the Rev . Joa * r Jones , late pastor of the congregation of Unitarian dissenters ia
Plymouth . —This truly amiable yatifrg jnan , was born at C wmbryii , near Gellioonen , in the parish of JLa « gy velnch , in the county of Glamorgan , Wales ; of which place his fattier was a respectable farmer . His mother was sister to the late
Rev . Roger Howell , of Beckington . He received his grammatical education under the Rev . William Ho well , of Swansea . When very young , he was admitted a student
into the academy at Carmarthen 9 conducted by th £ Rev . Mr . Fetei * add the Rev . Mr . Da vies ; where he continued three years ; &nd thence removed to York , under the
Rev . Charles Wellbeloved , for one year . During his academical coui « e * Mr . Jones applied with great assiduity to his various studies ; and made considerable proficiency , par ^ ticularly in the Classics anfl Mathem&tics .-P-On leaving Ytwk , tie went to Bridgewater , in Somersetshire * and for a few months officiated there
to a society of Unitarian dissenters . He then engaged himself as a private tutor , in the family of Mrai , Morgan , relict <* f the late Rev * Qeorge Morgan ; in which situation he remained about two years .
Having then received an invitation , to become patrtor of a ch ureh at Belper , in Derbyshire , he accepted it ; and after residing there about a year , he *! iittlly settl ^ td > inHPi j ^ - motrth ; where hef continued till within eight month * icrfhift decease Ou th ^ l 9 th ^ iAptriif rxmm M&
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OMtuttry .- — Rev . J . Jones . 5 $%
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1813, page 551, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2431/page/63/
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