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if you are willing , I send for insertion in the next month ' s Repository . I had been speaking of the need which man has of a revelation , and concluded thus : «< Inestimable is the value of our
Christian faith , and happy is he whose mind reposes upon it with the most perfect trust ;—chappy he who , upon this subject , has the fewest doubts and misgivings . The longer we live , the
more must we be convinced how much of the pleasantness and the beauty of this life would be taken away , if it were not regarded as the forerunner of another and a better . In this world .
few days pass over our heads without the occurrence of something alarming and appalling to our weak and shivering nature . When we see how soon the greatest minds are overturned ; how speedily the brightest intellect and the purest virtue become eclipsed ,
or go down ere their day be spent ; when we see constantly removed from before our eyes those who have been the light and life and ornament of our age , who walked in wisdom ' s ways , and trod the paths of justice ; when we behold these things , and stand wondering at our own mysterious
being , what a privilege and a happiness it is that , from such contemplations , we can take refuge in the thought of that country , nigh which despair comes not , and where the voice of lamentation and weeping is heard no more . Our country , mankind , has this week been deprived of one of its best and ablest friends . Pie
is gone upon whom the eyes of oppressed and weeping humanity have been long fixed as its firmest stay and trust . He is gone whom Mercy and Benevolence were eager to acknowledge as their constant and faithful
servant . He is gone whom all good men delighted to honour as the advocate of justice , and the defender of him that had none to help him . * The eye that hath seen" him shall see him no more . ' We may seek him , but shall not find him . —
Bitter constraint arid sad occasion dear I y " Mournful , indeed , it is , that such a life , at such a time , should have been lost to his country—to the world : more mournful still that its beautiful day should have been closed by so dark an hour 5 but over this last and
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dreadful act let us draw , as no doubt the mercy of God will draw , the veil of oblivion . In the deep darkness of his soul it was done , and let it not be remembered against him . The bright deeds of his life who can forget ? His labours of love who will cease to
remember ? The tear shed upon his grave will be a tribute to virtue— . an offering and a sacrifice to the spirit of humanity . He rests from his toils , but his works shall follow him . The name of Romilly , embalmed in the regrets , consecrate ?! in the love and
admiration of living minds , will go down to distant ages with a blessing on it . When we are numbered with the dead , and the remembrance of our names has perished from the earth , he will live in the thoughts and be cherished in the recollection
of thousands . Generation after generation shall rise up and speak of his good deeds , and teach their children to lisp the story of his virtues . The remembrance of his name shall dwell in the bosoms of the just , and warm their hearts to mercy . Thus the
virtuous and the good never die : they continue to live even upon earth , by the thoughts which they inspire , and the actions to which they prompt . And in heaven their spirits are with God . In his keeping they are sure and s ^ afe . Let us gladden and fortify our hearts with this faith . When the
sun of our human hopes is set , and the light of present comforts is withdrawn , let us think of that day which no darkness shall overshadow , when God shall be unto us an everlasting light , and his favour our eternal glory . ' * THOMAS MADGE !
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Bere-Regis , Dorset , Sir , October 3 , ISIS . AS your valuable miscellaneous publication admits literary as well as theological subjects , should the following appear worthy attention , it is much at your service . An old book * is lately ^ ome into my possession , on the top of whose
* The title of the book is , " Miscellaneous Translations , in Prose and Vers , from Roma 11 Poets , Orators and Historians . " 12 mo . It is dedicated , in Latin , to u the Rev . Doctor Robert Sutton . " Signed , " W . WARBURTON . " Date of publishing , « CIqI o CCXXIII . "
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Mr . L < amb onWarhwrtorCs Miscellanies . 685
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1818, page 685, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2482/page/21/
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