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W £ L ^ 0 3 ^ ent spitting : © f tnpxm : ; - And , tcr increase his MGtWS . afflietians , while in this
languid state , attempts , ? founded wfl ^ iy ^ t on baseless reports , were made tosuMy his spotless character , liut , notwithstanding the melancholy effects that em ana tec } from this affair , ( over which , 1 wibh to draw ah impervious veil ) Mr Jones
* t > ore all his sufferings with true ! Christian acquiescence ; being Brrnl }/ persuaded $ iat every dispensation of heaven is wisely ordered * fpr the best : and * that what we usually consider misfortunes in this
life , are only part of a fatherly course ' of discipline , designed ' to prepare us for higher degrees of felicity in that state into which the faithful shall enter on the morning of the rgsuiTectioB . His views , of thie patei ? ia | # n < i unbounded goodness of
th $ pneGod and Father of al ( , en-W 3 § JR ft ^ ¥ J u 4 ^ 4 gloomy * n 4 super ^ titio ^ s Jearjf $ and the p rom ises ; of lte \ i § f 0 f * k ... ^ e / e to \ nm a nevei-$$$$% m MVS f > f > W # 3 t cpiisolatipn . xj % . # « iefof the truth of the Jewish ajfcd ^© WrYsfian feciiptures , rested ti ^ t oh t $ §\ Dpinion of h is fo refathers $ nwi early instructors , w ^ hich is too
commonly the case ; but , on a oare-W examination and accurate ba-^ W * Sp - ^ £ * $ ence * fr i ™^ s ^ tis / ac torfly ^ convinced of fheir divine original . To give a cqrrect view pfth ^ state of hi ^ niind ia little wliife prior td his dissolution * , I shall extract this following reflections , found among hi * p ^ e *^; arid 1 dated ' Dec . O , IBl ^ . am
' ^ 1 very appcehen % ive that ; i 3 i * e jsffl ^^ W' ! Wills $ Qda terminate nay € on-SS ^ ft ^^ tb thia scene . Jt so m ^ - f ^ ?^ g ver y s ? ^ ous thoughts in my min ^ J JBut it is injuriouH to WS cOaitifciiiit to indulge cfuerulous W d 6 sp 6 ndent feelinis ; anff incon-^ t ^ f ^ with- ' the profession-f h ^ ye ^ W ^ te ^ Ch ^ W ^ ver ^ « ih Wo ^ tft iiy main ; M $ \} $$ . c ^ r > ii ^ pjmrfectly . jprese ^ ed ) to 4 * ¥ ^ E ^ i *^ WP * - * MPl » r ^«** io »| afc : for &Mww % * 9 » M w ^ w w ^ F ^ TOe ritv - or wiiifst health and
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vigour glow in his vein * only , JtiUt i » those very circumstances ^? bi < C | are most , fitly / adapted , to tr \ t ^ e validity of principles and sinc § ri £ y of professions , in my situation ., resignation enjoys an opportunity to signalize her peaceful and mild triumphs . If in sickness , . laid Q » the bed of debility , a man , notably refrains from outward expres ^ iei * querulous dissatisfaction , Mut from it
even feeling any disconteut v ^ h the dispensations of heaven , && £ submits * to the severe triaJ , not f ^ ilfa the ^ rowl of impatience , or theeffdrts of repugaance , but with a Wellgrounded pefsuat&ion , that * under the Divine administration ,- ^ rtiTC
evils , the abstinences , the privi * tions which he now suffers , will be conducive to , his future good , either in the correction of evil 'fatbits , in rectifying the ^ errors of too great reliance upon the . ^ vorld , an 4 in directing his ^ View and elevating his hopes / to those extatic sc ^ nQS , into which none of the inhat > itki £ tk
with a heart of sorrow , is confipelira to sigh , * I am sick '—* where * $ * vticked cease from troubling and thp ivqQ ry are at rest * *• Mr Jones was the wkrtn Mead of civil and religious , liberty , ia its fullest extent . He assessed an
honest affectionate , h ^ rt f ftn 4 >^ mind truly independent , wlitcfli soared above every species of artifice and , disingenuous servility ; a ^ id , except when roused by the pestiferous breath of back-wounding calumny , " was always mildand affable in his demeanour . As a
companion and friend , he was intelligent , sincere , 4 isinteie ^ te < l ; and frequently indulged au . ipaocept playfulness of temper . He was riot fond , particularly in his latter years , of a proiniscuous' intercourse with thd world , his habits aud dispoisritioa beiug qii ^^; do «« sti <^ and * therefore , " » wl * % . uot wery exteBsiV ^ ly
Mwd . i But hi * tt ^ roo ^ y ^ 4 H ; W ^ P live in the ^ o ^^ . ji ?^?^ Sy ^ of e $ Witytyfa \ 'W wj ^ o Hnew Wpi yah ^ FMJ ^ him most- ^ Eat ^ JWNil ; ij ^ itiN ^ artfea
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1813, page 553, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2431/page/65/
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