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U > ht * r you say so . * H % WtitllA say , * Afdf Afct , I want you to give me ii p , fliafc wdtbld ttiake me rejoice i it is mil t Wifctitf ffcfrWfcHfcl ; you mtist We Cliristfetl fortitude ; you must say , * fhe Lord gave , &fiA tte lifd taketh away-fcFesseil be tfee L 6 fd . > A few day * before Bis death , be tgUiJl fcrUVfetl jMs
m < Ht 1 ier to resi gn him , & £ id £ , * Ybti should thank Go £ for wmriilg ine to you s 6 lottg . * To his friei&s who c a trie to ftft » him , f&ttrf fo Aa < J many , J he spoke ift Bft afrectioiut le manner : to some , wfto wished tiC rfec 6 Vfcry , Ije would say , c / Have no escpettati&n (\ f it * t am quite ready to go , t long Jbt my dismissal . * tie lived many days longer
than we could expect , tie \ vished to know from me hovt loftg be might survive . I staid , peihaps three or fottr days . When they were passed , lie said , Von toere Wrongs tvhich / am sorry for ; it is a disappointment to the * 1 reifiitided him of Job , who said , 'All the days of my appointed time will I wait ; , until my chahge come .
fits were great and heavy afflictions . * I am not impatient ^ he re plied , ' but long for that happy " moment ? fevery day after , he would ask , ' tlow long- ; * ( which were three i ^ -within n few hours of his death , wfcen Be could scarcely articulate , he
beckoned me to him , and in a faint Voice , * How long now I ? * Onl y a very Jeto ( hou r *? I mM z could hear him say , / afh glad * and be cave a placid smile . About three hours after he \ fM asleep in 3 e $ Ut—* rte scarcely knew he vr % * gone . —He dl ) Nliu his chair , as he bad not been able to He down ui bed , on account df his cong ^ n . fte felt
tut little pain during ni » illness , for Wbich h * was very thankful . One evening , there + m * i * or » evea friends with him , On * of Wfeom was a young man about twenty , Id Mm he toore particularly addressed nithsetf , tmwlnSnr Mw of the vahie of religious
^ axe ats , and of beinf Undated in Chrfsttttn piiBciplefft fee HiaiiKtot Ood fof ^ , wbd had Ie 4 W « i to God , additofc , What idea , sure it now affords toe under toy affliction P Ur £ T * g bim 10 r ^ meniber Kb CVeatot in tbe days of his yeutb , * llid , > be « a 1 o . * tio \ V mj com £ * rt mnd contolatibn that I did seek Mm * tkoi I 4 iA * erc * %£ ** , and i ^ & ^ * r ^ « ykrr « mil worldly enjoyments ? We tbeH take
ad Jres ^ d all < ifu * , see ^ ni u ^ to a final farewell ; it exhausted bis Weak franl ^ vert mu ^ i . He men cj $ » ped his ha ^ ds , ittrd lifting Ills eyes to He&ven , W sa ) d , * Now , Lord , let thy servant depart ih petted , to my ejes Imve seen thy salVatton ? He tot > k an affectionate leave Of those fVfencb who saw biui aflerwards , tkfltig tb uftst of A « m , Aatt * eeyou no tnore ^ ^ -f ' arewetl ! yarewelj ! * ^ One ni ^ ht , 6 H liiH tnothet biJdW him ftood tti ^ Bt , % ^ ttltltnl :, Batd fltfwn In t& ^ nWritrtt
« When ^ oft come ^ ttM ^ i | ii n g # i ^ tb t ^^ Woat tfteft * ur £ ft houl < l ffive J ^ u 5 ^ Ofil 1 Irtoe tMt . ' % lm « afa . He t ^ toH 3 « 1 tejfell ^ MW Mfy »
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ytrti saw me t * tietpait ; hut that k not the case , you tee thai I long to go ? Tbis Was tb « general ten our of bis conversation until bis death . He would say , * I have good hope t r 01 l ? grracey which is my great support * il On the Sib of September , he made bis will with the greatest composure of mind :
be has left the following legacies : 5 ( W . to the tJnitarian Fund ; 50 / . to the Unitarian Academy ; £ 6 / . to the Hibernian Society ^ 0 ^ . td therfoxton Friend-ih-Need Society \ 101 . t 6 the Parliament-Court ^ Fellowship Society ; 20 J . to Mr . Kemp , Beacon of H ox ton Chapel , to be given as he sball direct , to poor add sick persons ; and 10 / . to Mr . Kemp for his trouble in giving it .
" He desired Mr . Fox to speak at the grave , and to preach a SenUen to yoiifig people , from the words , * Remember now th ^ r Creato r in the days of thy youth , ' &c . His charge to us was , * Give my love to all my friends .. I hope to meet them all above . ' I am sure you and your family were included , and in which Mrs . Titford and myself most affectionately unite .
< c I a * n , dear Sir , sincerely yours , « w . titford . Mr . Samuej , Dob ell , Cr&n 6 rook Kent .
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H& 6 Obitu&fy . *~ Xfr . Dwid Wblker ^ Rev . ThoiHa * Biggin Brtotdlent .
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November 9 » at his father ' s house , at Lalchford t the ? Rev . Thomas Biggin
BROAJDBENT , 6 n ) y son of the Rev . Wm . Broadbeot , minister of the Unitarian congregation , Warrington . Although he had riot completed the 25 th year of | iis age , his sudden removal , in the prime of life , anrl in toe commencement
of a course of brilliant promise , has not Oaly caused a deep affliction to his vetterable parent , but a » excess of sorrow and heart-rending emotions of grief to a widely-extended circle of friends , and universal regret in all who knew him .
After a well-directed course of education , adapted to the profession he Was designed to pursue , he entered the University of Glasgow at the commencement of the session 18 O 9 « He commenced his studies with high credit to his fathers instructions and to hfs 6 Wn diligence .
the encomiums which he from time t 6 tiftife melved from the Professors , attd the honours conferred upon him , beat testimony to hfis- talents and in-Attstry . In bV 6 of of Which , I feel a pleaof this
sure in stating , that the ^ abject rt ^ tttott-received a prize in ev ^ ry gown dfais * m& tfte flHt prfafce ill the Greek cftflsii . Hts Cavity 6 ^ manners , combitted wiXH flife genitiflte , unaffected
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1817, page 690, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2470/page/50/
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