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time , on hearing a partr of a passage repeated , recite and explain the context , and point out the chapter and verse . J Her memory and her quickness in this respect were indeed the astonishment of all her acquaintance . il She perused , besides , most of the principal modern works on the Unitarian controversy ; and at last became ,
upon rational and deliberate conviction , an U » itari * n , according- to the strictest acceptation of Chat term . 3 In her conversion to these sentiments she preceded her son ; wfao had , indeed , at this period , began to suspect the sound ness of his Arian sentiuients ^ but did not till afterwards wholly discard them . w
C Thoog-h she advocated her new opinions * when occasion offered , [ with < fee warmth aod zeayof * ' recent ce » vert , \^ yet it was to their practical bearing and importance , tbatsbe ^ ifdfl £ directed her attention ^ and observations . \ Her principal delight ! in bringing them under discussion ' ^ arose from the view she entertained of their tendency
to promote gemtiine piety , and holiness of life and conversation . 'if From the repulsive system of Calvin , her heart , as well as her understanding * , turned with involuntary horror : and she dwelt with a kind of holy rapture , on the Unitarian views of the nature and character of God , as embodying 111 hinwelf every thing * that is perfect and
amiable ? and eitg'aging ' , every thing * in one word which can pertain to the character erf a father . iTiShe admire ^ j the powerful motives to virtue furnished by this system , in the doctrine of the accountability of man for his actions ^ and iajTits representation of the future life as ^ a s tat e of righteous retribution , wherein men sLail receive according- to their works . / 8 ke dwelt
likewise with pleasing satisfaction on the consolations it was calculated to administer in seasons o £ suffering , bypts delineation of the providential care of this benevolent Being" over all his creatures , over-ruling * and directing all events and circumstances far the advancement of the highest interests of his rational offspring * . ^ This was the thought that cheered her own spirits under
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Address of the Methodists of tlie New Connexion , to the British Public : By order of the Ministers and Lay Representatives assembled at Halifax , the 86 th of May , 1817 , in their
Twenty .-fir&t Annual Conference . Having , pince our institution as a Christian Conumiuity , been exposed to much minrepresentation , from persons who appear neither to uad ^ rstand oar sytttfm nor our principles , we feel it due to ourselves , our
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all tne infirmities of her advanced ag * e , and supported her to her dying hourj fA few years ago , her sight , which had for sotu £ time been gradually on the decline , entirely failed . This was to her a severe calamity , as it deprived feer of her chief source of amusement . After she
became blind , she occasionally occupied herself in composing verses on familiar topics and on religious subjects * , in the Welsh language ^? an employment which was quite new to her , and may be regarded as a striking * proof of the great vigour of her intellectual faculties . These she
would repeat with much energy , and with wonderful correctness 3 forfthough some of her pieces extended to about one hired red lines , and existed do where but in her < wh mind , she never fdrgot them , and would at any time , when required , repeat th-em without the slightest mistake 01 hesitation . During- the last eighteen months she never
removed from her bedl being too weak to sit in her chair . She suffered feut little , liowever , from bodily indisposition , except occasionally from the copious secretion ofmuctiS ) which , from the want of strength to expectorate it , sonjetimes greatly interrupted her breathing * . ' fAt length the powers of nature gradually decayed , and she breathed her last with © tit the least effort or struggle ,
as if linking into a peaceful sleep s She was buried in the ground belonging * to meeting-house of Geltionnen , on Monday February the 10 th , and was followed to the grave by a large crowd of spectators and friends . At the meeting-house , an appropriate and excellent discourse was delivered by ttae Rev . John James , the minister of the place , ftom Psalm xci . 16 , ** With long
life will I satisfy him , and shew him my salvation , " a text with which she had herself supplied him for the occasion about a fortnight beforeJHshe has left a numerous posterity in the second , third and fourth generations ! to cherish the remembrance of her virtues . May they also study to emulate them ! T . R .
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friends , and our country , thus publicly to correct the rumours and remove the prejudices which have flowed from this erroneous source ; and to aVow , in the face of the world , those leading * features by which we are * distinguished , and those principles by which our conduct has been governed .
Be it known then , tbat , following : th * example of the Cfeu # ch of ISagtond , m her separation from the See of Home 5 afid of the Nonconformist ^ in thei r d beont from
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1818, page 144, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2473/page/64/
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