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stances which rendered those subjects particularly seasonable and interesting * . * Indeed , he was uniformly and deeply anxious that our periodical religious meeting's should be fraternal and harmonious : with
which view , he was accustomed to recommend , that the topics and the reasonings we address to each other , on these occasions , should not be polemical . In this recommendation there was the greater propriety , and it came with increased weight , inasmuch as it had the sanction of his own
example . Still I should do injustice to his character did I refrain from saying-, that he declined not , at fit times , to avow and defend the theological sentiments which he deemed scriptural and important : and we may well admire the honesty of his
avowal and vindication of them , even thoug-h all of us may not acquiesce in his conclusions . No variety or opposition in our views , could render me insensible to his excellencies . Mournfully pleasing * is the recollection of his virtues as a Christian
and a Christian minister . The elements of his character were , fervent devotion , strict integrity and genuine Catholicism and benevolence . His soul was erect and independent , far superior to the artifices , to the mean compliances and expectations of little minds . In simplicity and g * od ! y sincerity , not by fleshly wisdom , but by the grace of
God , he had his conversation in the world . Those who best knew , and who , therefore , most esteemed and loved him , have cause of gratitude , that amidst frequent attacks of disease , during- a large period of his public life , he was spared to them so long-.
The vacancy , nevertheless , which his death has left in our circle is especially affecting-, when we consider that , for a series of years , he was , by his standing in the neighbourhood , the father , as it were , of the ministers assembled at this lecture .
His removal from us to the silent g-rave , is like the removal of the single link which connected the generation of our predecessors here with ourselves : and soon the remaining- links of this part of the chain
will be displaced , soon the existing- chain itself will he broken : and , by degrees , we too shall be followed by another race . Let us exercise , my brethren , fresh and unremitted diligence , while it is called to-day . Le * t us remember that the end of the
conversation of our departed associates and friends was—Jesus Christ , the same yesterday , to-day and for ever , whose gospel } s immortal , though its advocates decay . Let us prepare for meeting them in that temple whence they shall go out no more . And , may a double portion of the spirit
i # Difference of Sentiinerrt no Objec-r lion to the Exercise of Mutual Love . ' Preached at Dudlev Lecture , 1780 .
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Tiverton Unitarian Chapel . Amount of Subscriptions inserted in Monthly Repository for May --- --- 60 15 3
Subscriptions since received Rev . Samuel Fawcett , Yeovil .. 10 0 Two Friends to the cause at Crewkerne , H W . I / . S . S . I / . 2 0 0 Per Rev . John Jervis . Lympstone Congregation , Devon 5 0 0
Per H ev . John Jervis . Miss Stogdon , ditto - - - 10 0 Per Rev . JEdmund Butcher . Win . Leigh , Esq . Slade , near Sidmouth - 100 Per Rev . Dr . Carpenter . J . F . Barham , Esq ., Exeter , 11 . Mr . Mountjoy , ditto ^ 11 . a Friend , 11 . - - - - 300
73 15 0 The Friends to the cause at Tiveiton have great pleasure in informing those who are interested in the promotion of the pure worship of the One God even the Father , that the services of their chapel have been attended by a continued increasing number ; and they flatter themselves that the
opposition they have met with from their Calvinistic Brethren will eventually promote , much more than it has already injured , their cause , as one large family , who were disgusted at an illiberal attack made on the works of Priestley and Belsham , and the principles of Unitarians , have thereby been induced to search the Scriptures , and judge
for themselves , of the truth or fallacy of what they had heard ; the result has been , what would generally be the case , would all who oppose the simple and plain truths of the Gospel professed by Unitarians , ex * aniine with dispassionate and unprejudiced minds the scriptural evidences in , favour of them . In short , they have openly avowed
* Itev . Mr . Warren , juet removed to S tou rb ridge from Ring wood . f Rev . Benjamin Carpenter , recently ^ chosen as successor to the Rev . Joseph Bowden , Call Lane- Leeds .
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of the valuable man whose image has now presented itself particularly to our thoughts , rest on . us all , eminently on his successor in the pastoral charge , * and not least
eminently on the relation who bears his uame ,-fwho , animated by his exhortations , and aided by his instructions , has entered on the same public office , and who experienced from him what may truly be styled , a pa *» rent ' s love ! Amen . "
Eleven ministers were present . The Rev . Richard Fry , of Kidderminster , and the Rev . Timothy Davis , of Oldbury , were appointed to preach at the next anniversary . J . H . B .
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374 Intelligence . — Tiverton Unitarian Chapel .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1817, page 374, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2465/page/54/
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