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Aug . 3 , 1817 . A Dissenting Minister * s Tribute of Resped for the late Rev . S . Partridge , Vicar of Boston . [ From the Boston Newspaper . } Mr . Editor ,
I am an occasional attendant at the Unitarian Chapel in this town . This morning , the minister preached a funeral discourse , on account of the death of one of his friends . It appeared bv
his introductory observations , that he had been absent from his congregation some weeks , and . he noticed the death of several persons which happened in his absence . I was aflfectingly pleased with his remarks on . the death of our
late good old vicar ; I pencilled them down from his lips , and , by your leave , should be much gratified in seeing recorded in the Boston Gazette , this tribute of respect from a liberal Dissenting Minister , to a respectable Clergyman of the Establishment .
" The next instance . of mortality which I noticed , was that of an eminent Clergyman of the Establishment , my near neighbour , and with whom £ had some degree of intimacy . Our occasional meetings were very frequent , on which we generally had
some interesting conversation . He presented me with copies of most of his publications , and gave me other proofs of his regard for me , though belonging to a sect which is every where spoken against . Our opinions were at variance on some important rejigious
doctrines , as well as public matters , but he was truly candid and far removed from a bigoted and persecuting spirit . I had , indeed , a high esteem for this respectable person , who , I believe , was a Christian in deed and in truth , and , whose spirit and conduct
was worthy of a minister of the religion of the blessed and holy Jesus . He has finished his course , and I trust entered into his Master ' s joy . And in those brighter scenes above , those regions of higher perfection and enjoyment , where all earthly distinctions
will cease , where the pious and the good , of every church and sect and name , shall meet as brethren , the children of one common Parent , the followers of one common Lord , in that free and liberal , that wide and expanded Heaven , I could almost indulge the presumption that our oc-
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Addition to the Notice of the late Rev . Thomas Barron , ( p . 315 ) , Melbourn was the place of his residence , but he likewise preached to a congregation at Fulbourn , in the same county , ( of Cambridge , ) and
upon the death of the Rev . Joseph Eedes , at Saffron Walden , in the county of Essex , in the year 1769 , he was appointed minister of the General Baptist Church at that place . He
continued to perform the pastoral duties to the three congregations till the year 1791 > when , upon the settlement of the Rev . S . Philpot at the latter place , he retired from the same , and continued to officiate at Melbourn
and Fulbourn , till within a few years of his death 5 but of late , his growing infirmities confined his services to his Melbourn friends . While health and strength permitted lie was indefatigable in his Master ' s cause , and abundantly useful to society , both to the souls and bodies of his fellow-creatures .
Having a very considerable skill in medicine , he was enabled to relieve many who were afflicted with various maladies , which he did nearly gratuitously , receiving little in return , except the gratitude of those who were the recipients of his benevolence :
hence , many will miss those acts of humanity he was in the constant practice of exercising . He was a man of but few words , but what he . said was with great caution and prudence-Modest and unassuming in his manners , of a mild and even temper , even so much so as scarcely or ever to
have been seen out of temper , charitable and candid in his religious sentiments , he was respected by all parties , and beloved by all who had the happiness of his acquaintance . He persevered through a long series of years in this work and labour of love , and he now rests from his labour , arid his works will follow him . He was
interred in the parish church-yard of Melbourn , to which silent abode he had but a few months before followed the partner of his life , one who much resembled himself in the numerous good qualities which adorn the Christian life .
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Obituary . —Rev . S . Partridge .- —Rev . Thomas Barron . 495
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casional meetings will be renewed , though I may possibly belong to a far inferior class .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1817, page 493, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2467/page/45/
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