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Clapton , Sir , October 3 , 1818 . YOU will , probably , gratify some of those who shared Mr . Dodson s acquaintance , and have survived
the mortal ravages of nineteeri years , as well as myself , by preserving this Memoir , which I received from my friend Dr . Disney , iu 1800 , when he printed a , few copies , with his usual courtesy , for private circulation .
I am aware that the Memoir has since formed the Article Dodson in the General JBiography . But as the plan of that publication excluded Dr . Disney ' s notes , and as I have added what farther information occurred
to me , ( which is distinguished by brackets , ) the whole will , ] hope , have enough of novelty to justify the insertion , J . T . RUTT . A Short Memoir of Michael Dodson , Esq .
Michael Dodson , Esq . was the only son of the Rev . Joseph Dodson , M . A ., a Protestant Dissenting minister , settled at Marlborough , in Wiltshire , * and of Elizabeth , one of
* The Rev . Joseph Dodson was the author of a sermon ,. entitled Moderation and Charity , preached in April 1719 , at Keswick , to the Associated Protestant Dissenting Ministers of Cumberland and Westmorland , ' published in 1720 . There is a Preface to this Sermon , which very ingenuously states the progress of the
preacher ' s mind to the candid and favourable thoughts he then entertained of others , whose theological notions happened not to be agreeable to his own $ and also chronicles the spirit of persecution raised agaiust him among- 11 is brethren on this very account ,
He also printed , in 1722 , " The Case of the People * s inquiring into the Faith of their Ministers , considered in a Sermon , preached at a Meeting of Ministers at Newlmry , in Berkshire , March 27 , 1722 ; published at the Request of the Ministers that heard it "
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the daughters of Mr . Foster , attorney at law , of the same place , who was greatly respected for his integrity . *
And in 1728 , the same gentleman published a volume in octavo , entitled € i Twelve Discourses on the Grounds of a Christian ' s Joy , * ' &c &c . He died April 17 , 1755 , aged 65 , and his widow survived till 1775 . Besides tbe subject of tbe present memoir , they left a daughter , Mrs . Martha Dodson , of Marlborough , who died at her brother ' s house in London , Nov . 23 , 1794 , aged 60 years .
* [ " He died in 1720 , and a funeral sermon was preached on the occasion by the famous Dr . Morgan , who was at that time the minister of a Dissenting ^ congr e ^ gation in Marlborough . His text was , Death is swallowed up- in victory ; a . nd , in speaking" of the deceased , he thus
expressed himself : c I think that the text hath been very fitly chosen and recommended , as the subject of nay discourse , and your meditations on -this melancholy occasion , when we are come together to pay tfie last public testimonial of decency and respect \ & so excellent and useful a
person 5 who made it the business of his life to exemplify the character of a real Christian without any mixture of the phaiisee ^ wti o al ways studied and laboured to promote righteousness and peace , as abstracted from the uncatbolic zeal and
narrow-spin tedness of a party ; who could be charitable and heneficent to others without coveting tine reputation of it , and content himself with the testimony of a good conscience without minding- or regarding the applauses of menj and who , havingfought a good fight , kept the faith , and finished his Christian course in the
simplicity of the gospel ; there is from henceforth , without all controversy , a crown of righteousness laid up for-him , which tbe Lord , the righteous judge ., will give to him at that day , when this corruption shall have nut on incorruption , and this
mortal shall have put on immortality ; and when this saving shall be fully accomplished , Death is swallowed up in victory . * This character , great aa it may seem , is not greater than the subject of it deserved , Mr . Justice Foster used to telJ .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1818, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2481/page/1/
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