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Mr* Evans on Dr* Fosters Tomb. 167
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assisted * had providence continued me ia life ; but he hath been pleased to cut short my days in the midst , and to remove me to the unseen state , where , 1 trust , according to the terms of his gracious gospel , I shall receive my part and portion , in new and brighter scenes , throughout a blissful immortality !"
Surely , we may suppose that these were in part , at least , the sentiments which passed through her mind in the last moments of her earthly being , when , with a countenance beaming with hope and resignation , shestretehed forth he ^ feeble hand to her beloved
husband , and said , — " Is there any danger ?* And may we not also conceive on the solemn occasion , some messenger of peace , some herald of the skies * commissioned to descend , and to relieve her fainting spirit with this reply—** Yes , there is danger , but it will soon be over \—But there is
another danger , from which you are happily delivered ! You shall * not be hurt of the second death' / You have early dedicated yourself to your Maker and to your Redeemer , and during the short , course of your earthly pilgrim * age , have fulfilled the purposes of your creation : you might naturally have
expected a longer continuance in life , and far more extensive usefulness \ but the ways of Providence are inscrutable to mortals ! In former seasons of deep and poignant anguish , you have often breathed forth this prayer , * O that I had wings like a dove , for then would I fiee awayf and be at rest ! ' You are now about to realize these devout
aspirations : leave this imperfect scene , these confines of temptation and trial and sin and death , and ascend with me into the mansion prepared for you ; and , in due season , you shall be fitted for more sublime employments , for the society of angels and glorified spirits , and the vision of the eternal Jehovah 1
For you know him who bath said , 1 Slessed are the ' pure in heart , they shall see CrodS "
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Kingsford , of Canterbury , the Rev-Thomas Morgan , Mr / John Treactier , MrJ Stariger , and myself , are ready to come forward with our contributions , whilst Mr . David Eaton , and Mr , Cordell of Bishopsgaterstreet , will
obligingly receive subscriptions , however small , for this purpose . Mr . William Titford and myself having inquired into the expense , find it will amount to about twenty pounds , and any surplus shall be given to the Unitarian Fund .
It will be remembered that Dr , James Foster was an eloquent General Baptist minister , who conducted a Sunday Evening Lecture at the Old Jewry , for twenty years , and , whom Pope has thus so pointedly eulogized in his Satires , — " Let modest Foster + if he will , excel
Ten metropolitans in preachi ng well !*• His Defences of Revelation , also , were most judicious and satisfactory , whilst his conscientious avowal of Unitarian principles , under very trying circumstances , in the west of England , previous to his settlement in London , does honour to his zeal and
integrity . His spirit , indeed , wastrtoly independent and liberal , — " I always had /* says he * " I bless God , ever since I began to understand or think to any purpose , large and generous principles , and there never was any thing , either in my temper or
education , which might incline me to wa ? % rowness and bigotry , and I am heartily glad of this opportunity which now offers itself , of making this public profession , that I value those who are of different persuasions from me , more than those who agree with me in sentiment , if they are more serious , sober and charitable / " This is a noble
declaration , warranted by the soundest dictates of reason , as well as sanctioned by the precepts of pure and unadulterated religion . , An infuriated bigotry has disfigured and despoiled the largest portion of Christendom . *
Dr . Foster died Nov . 5 , 1753 , in the 56 th year of his age , of an illness brought on by an attendance upon the amiable Lord Kilmarnock to the scaffold on Tower Hill . The melancholy * See Sequel ( fourth edition ) to the Sketch of the jPenomindtionsof the Gfiris ~ tian World . \ ! v-
Mr* Evans On Dr* Fosters Tomb. 167
Mr * Evans on Dr * Fosters Tomb . 167
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Islington , Sir , February 15 , 1818 . T TNDERSTANDINGthat . the . torn * \^ J of Dr . James Foster , in Bunhill Fields , has been for some ( time , past in a very dilapidated condition , some friend * to the memory of this great man are desirous of restoring it . f beg leave to state , that the Rev . Sampson
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1818, page 167, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2474/page/15/
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