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and he well remembers , that though the sermons of this favourite preacher were uniformly practical , yet he not unfrequently found occasion to give what , at that time , his hearer esteemed severe and fatal blows , in the same discourse to the Tiinitafian and Socinian ; and at others he did
not deal less severely with the doctrines of Calvinism and Philosophical Necessity . It must be much more than 30 years ago , that he heard him with a delight , of which the impression is not
obliterated , descant on the latter subjects , when discoursing from the pathetic exclamation of Christ , ' Oh Jerusalem , Jerusalem , how often would I have gathered together your children , &c . BUT YE WOULD NOT . "
To within a fortnight of his death , Mr . Worthington , though worn down with disease , and labouring under a pulmonary complaint , was the same animated
preacher that he had ever been * When employed in the pulpit , he forgot himself and his bodily infirmities , and shad no other feeling but the desire of being useful .
After the last public service in which he engaged , on the 11 th of July , he left London for Worthing , in the hope of being benefitted by a change of air .
Occasionally he felt partial amendments , but he almost uniformly thought that he was rapidly hastening to the end of his journey , of which he gave intimations to several of his friends . Ob
Sunday , the 25 th , he attended public worship , and retired to his chamber at , the usual hour . About five o ' clock on the following morn , ing , he was seized with an ex pectorAjipiKQjf blood ; be had strength
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enough only to warn his friend of his sudden indisposition . They came in a few minutes to his bed-side ; he was composed and
cheerful ; but upon the hope be * ing expressed that he would soon find himself better , he replied , with his usual emphasis , *« No , never : I now feel as I never felt
before . " Soon after , he uttered his last words , cc Gracious Fa * ther ^ forgive me , and receive me to thyself $ " and in a very short time fie died without a groan or struggle . * ,
His body was brought from Worthing to his house in London , and in the evening of the 5 th of August it was removed to Salters *
Hall , the principal scene which had been witness to his labours for forty years within a few months ; from thence it was -taken on the next day to Bunhill Fields , and interred in the same vault that contains the remains of Mrs .
Worthington and other branches of hi * family . The funeral service was performed by the Rev . Thomas Tayler , and the whole was
conducted at the expence of the congregation . Eighteen mourning coaches and several private carriages followed the bearse ; and there were , probably , not
* For several weeks it was believed that Mr . Worthington had died without a will , it is however now certaia that he eicecuted one , only two or three days before he left London for Worthing
He kept a Diary , written in a shorthand of his own , which was an improvement upon Palmer ' s method , and in that diary he aays he had signed hi * will ? on a given day , and that , to prevent accidents , a copy would be found , attache ^ to certain lette rs . The eppy hm been found , and though in short-hand , will , jit is hoped , prove * legal instrument *
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5 f tc Memoir of the late Rev . Hugh Worthington ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 572, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/12/
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