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( trftgfaTi trtrtfp ^ rtd trt ; the cult * r « tfe « a ^ ntoafr'tf * # efc' * ff 4 ** te ^ fffc ^ tel ^ r « o ^ ^ rsant with tjie H ^ fy Se * fp * ures , and his fomify ^ md rti ^ Nrest iHeit € & ckn * bear witness hdW fre ^^ l ^ e ^^ s ^ f ^ t ^ Hfe VeKgfbtf ^ options * mie * # e * it of -late «^ $ < toffie ^ n ^ de * &bte bhartge , isftd he k idl-kttown to lia ^ e embraced eordfelly and
wftavte pfofcfifc ^ OiireSetwdly the ^ Unitarian fafffc && thought himse 4 M * e happier $ ti& the better fotfHh exchange ; iioir was he smgtilarir ? this persuasion . Brit Whatever may be the jadgftient of the world upon hfs creed ; it may be confidently affirnied that no one' Cafi ascribe his adoption of it
to a want or examination or to a defect of religious : Berlins :, much less to motives of ? fcH-iiiterest . * " » He sought for truth in the Hofy seripttfres , and , persuaded that he had found It , c < he held it firmly , and recomttiended it -td the conscientious consideration of fais fellow ^ christians .
'His zeal was at the same time tempered by charity . ' He condemned no one for retaining opinions which lie himself gave up . He * esteemed and honoured highly many Christians , whom I see before me , whose faith was very different from his own . On the same paper from which I borrowed the sentence which I have just read , there is
tne following record of h'is liberality , which agrees with the teriour of all his conversations on tftekubject , " I do think many are « # ibictrehft&roh g asothers cere sincerely right " ' " * O 6 r d ^ cased Christian brother ' s piety MM manifestedby ^ his regularly fitting up lsf # place in tfi is ' House of Prayer , where he * w&S arf ^ attejiffve tearer and a d evont
Ivafshipper ; and by his daily observance of thetoo much neglected duty of fawiily de" What he wiasin ** the intercourse of life , tiif'neighbdiirs and'friends are best able to declare . But I know I shfrll- not lay myself 'opeu to ' Contrkdiction / when I say that though he «« fhad failingsr which he himself * fas ' the . * fipst'io acknowledge and lament , f overt -which it was the business of ' his
¦ $ fe-to get the mastery , he was just in his d&ilings , temperate in his enjoyments , kif ^ K ^ cexit : in his discourse , ready to serve his fettoWMjreaturesy especially such as were in trouble and distress , aiid of an independent * w * < ha 6 < fc spirit .
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ffls Ift ^ t fflness was so rapid * nd ' m * 4 U * fcehffiigzistto allow of few Ofypottttnities 6 # r tber e ^ pr ^ ssk > n of his opinioits and feefing *^ bttf his dying hours were iterk « # by p& » tiencie vmi&er stiflferirtg , serenity iaff ^ heTJiHfet of change , gratitude ftv-tieafugai' UufrttMil kind offices , and resignation- an * dd % dMft to God . ; ^ • ' - ¦ ¦ ^
Such is my honest view of hlsr character which I think it the part n& fess of n ? ligi <^ i 5 dirty than of friendship t 6 hO * dWpt ^ p « lfe ® cr imitation . May we , my brethren , be ' * $ & lowers of him , as far as we believe * tbat ^ Jle followed Christ ! May you especially that
were his friends , take warning front--his sudden departure , to prepare to frieet / Jfcfcsr God , that you also may enjoy a peaceful end and sleep in Jesus \ And may you , above aH , that are mourning a relation , a father , ^ husband , be comforted by the re ? itiembrance of his faith and virtue , and ^ e
led by his example to live the life that you may die' the death of the righteous ! And may God Almightv of his infinite love anil mercy through our Lord Jesus Christ gtf&at that when time shall be no more , we mrty all rise with our sleeping brother in the resurrection of the just , to enjoy the blessedness of them that die in the Lord , and'to-enter
together into that holy and heavenly stafce , where truth will be no more shaded by error , where piety will be no longer weakened by the influence of time and sense , where friendship will be interrupted by tio cloud of imperfection , where there will be
no more death nor sin nor separation nor pain ; where Jesus Christ , in the glory e-f his exaltation , will be our eternal companion and wonderful counsellor , and where G © d , the ever-living , ever-gracious Father , will fee all arid in all through endless ages . Atiien and Amen . ¦• . . -J ¦ i -IV
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At Bath , on Monday , the 15 th mstatit , in the 70 th year oi * hii * age , Mr . William Matthews , of ^ the Society of Friends ,-and Secretary to the West of England ^ A'giie<ural Society . The New ^ papefs > -from which we extract this notice , state' tha $ < jUr . Matthews was the author of a Tour lii ^ Th e
maiirier of Sterne ; arid of some t * eligimi £ ^* t * id moral Tracts . We hope to receive ^ ton authentic account of fh ? s genttema * i- * * T 6 m some one of our correspondent ? . ^ '* c . i ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1816, page 245, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2451/page/57/
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