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Jones accepted the office of minister of Plymouth Chapel . At this . time it was but thinly attended ; Jhis excellent sermons , however ,
Isnon attracted notice , and a respec-^ table congregation was in a short ^ time formed , with a successive inicrease . —His * nind was not only ^ f iclily stored with theological know-• -ledge , bat he possessed a happy
facility of conveying his ideas , on & &I 1 subjects , though not ostentatiously , in language perspicuous > &nd elegant ; and his reason ing- was >« iJways nervous and cogent . His Tfrtiljpit compositions were neatly ^ © olished , and the matter
judiciously arranged and condensed . They were no £ interlarded with puerile flights of fancy , to court the glaFe and encomiums of a giddy multitude , but were pregnant with lore of the highest celestial importance * He was an ardent admirer
^ of Mr . Cappe ' s excellent sermons , and often used them as models for rliis own . His subjects , in general , \ wefe of a moral and practical kii&ji" ^ This , however * was not strictly in ^ unison with his . own opinion of the v tiature of sermons for the benefit of a it
^• fmxed audjence ; was adopted % y < hitti , in consequence of the different taste of some of the leading ^ characters in his church . He him-- _ self saw the propriety , and indeed the absolute necessity of frequently
-bringing under review the doctrines of the gospel , as well as enforcing its moral precepts : and to the neglect of thjs practice among Unitat . iians , he ascribed the comparatively ^ little success of their cause . The
writer of this article laments that . his deceased friend shoujd have been in tJhe , least shackled , in this particular ; as those discourses *> n ^ ot trinal topics vfhich he incidentally delivered , possessed considerable merit : •• ^ nd tftese ; w ith several
ftther * , are Highly deserving , pf £ d&licattt > u . Hadit bteen the . will ^ rfilite e-: l * iwi < $ en&e to * $ me his JKW ^ fc * ' * * y «^^ ' lottger . mwmmmmmm ^ mo ^ mmm
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to his talents , in t ) % ttfyB ^ Wf in many ot ^ ier re ^ peAts ^ . ^ : ^ In consequejaceofthe ^ oliqita ^^ pia of a few friend ^ Jr ^ r .-Jones wsls
induced to open jja PJymputh , ft Seminary , for teachiqg tl ^ e Classics , Mathematics , &c v Aniong jjj s loose memora n dums , I f ^ nd tie event thus noticed by him :... " On March ^ 6 , 1810 , 1 / opened iny
school , with two pupils . No very auspicious beginning : but 1 must not despair oi farther . encpurag ^ ement , when the intelligence of niy undertaking is mpre ^ generally extended . But whatever ifnay he trie
patronage I obtain , let me , e ^ ert all diligence , prudence , arid every other available method , to sa | i | fr the expectations pi those who ^ Jqtrust their children to my ^ ai ^ e •^ d to assist them as fa |\ as nvv p ^ q ^ irs will admit , in tj \ e acquisUioV' of
useful knpwleijge ., ixow % h # x M | | e comaieuc ^ d the , arduous unaem-Mng , may God epal ?! e , mje ^ B ^ . severe in it , as far as it i ^ jt |) tfsisfeftt with his will , and is con ^ up ^ g |! o my benefit /'—His pupijs ' sippjp * creased ; and latterly he ^ ad ^ Mp his tuition near forty > rlis ^^ iw ^ ct as a teacher of youth jj ^ . vig ^ ge ^ # al satisfaction . He fi nai 1 y relficMjuii ^^ d his school September \ 6 , 18 l ^ j § h . which he thus observed— " i \ ij | y
rendered memorable to me- b y ^ nif being compelled , through tfr € increase of indisposition , to gfve up my school . It is * ncjw top late to repent that I had not taken the resolution much earlier ; before 1 hy d exhausted nature , and rende ' reid my
recovery more difpcult , if not impractjcable . "—Though his higftjj cultivated minrl was admirably adapted for this employment , his body was of too delicate a texture to ^ endure the fatigues of & dayschool , without an assistant : a «| d
his exertions in tjiis | jne , rioflpu fytp augmented the fataf dise ^^^ liiCh terminated ^? e ^ rtlil y * & ™ $% f 9 * the ia » t two M ^ riXhIb J $ ? H Were 4 : uij 4 er ^ g re ^ t MUWW ^ boAy * ^ cco ^ mmp 4 y ^ sM ^ W
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j § 5 ^ Obituary .- ~ Rev > J . Jones .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1813, page 552, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2431/page/64/
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