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" Think , I beseech you think , how well he must have been prepared for his great change , who would appear before his Master , glowing with all the hoi > zeal , with all the affectionate fervour , of a faithful minister anil servant ! Think how different was this
state from that in which many , alas ! as suddenly , have gone to their account ! We are often told that the warrior ' s is a glorious death who falls in victor ; that the patriot ' s is a happy
death who dies for his country . But , without detracting from their praise , we may , we must , reflect iiow ill the field of rage and slaughter prepares for the presence of Jesus ! We cannot repel the fear , that a soul hardened against
a brother ' s cries , reeking with a brother ' s blood , may have mingled many unhoh passions with the purest cause ; may have left the earth very unfit for the feelings and employments of heaven . No shade of fears like this darkens our recollections of a death , which found the soul full of benevolent
purposes aud pious duties . No suddenness in its approach can suatch from the afflicted survivors the soothing assurance , that he who was called * was readv /
"O that I could make you fee ] how soothing is such an assurance ! That you could have seen what comfort it imparted to a fathers heart , what firmness it gave to a father ' s words , in speaking of an only and
much-valued son , to know that , painful as was the change to the living , to the departed it was only a momentary , an unsuflfering , an easy step , from the full enjoyment of this world to the brightest prospects in another .
" Shall I say any thing after such an instance ? What can I say that will make a deeper impression ? * Be ye therefore ready also . ' Be ye prepared with those pure feelings , with those strong principles of duty , will ) that
active faith , with that ardent piety , which will make your life lovely , your death ) glorious . It is true , your time niav not be near , but do not trust to that , especially as the conduct
which is wise in him who may die early , is no less wise in him who may live the longest . That you may live long and happily , I pray sincerely , 1 pray fervently 9 but still more fervently that you may live virtuously .
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I cannot but pray that yx > ur friends , that your parents , may be spared the affliction of your untimely loss . But spare them , I beseech you spare them , the keener affliction of thinking , that your death , how long soever delayed , will be untimely . I hope they
will not have to weep over your early grave . But if they should , let them not have to shed tears far more bitter , over the thought that you were unfit for death . Let your memory , like his of whom I have spoken , leave behind it the bloom and fragrance of virtue .
Let your friends have the consolation of remembering , should your removal be sudden , that * ye also we 7-e ready 5 or should it be early , of soothing their regret , in some degree , with the
reflection , that * honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time , nor that which is measured by number of years ; but that wisdom is the grey hair unto man , and an unspotted life is old age .
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On Mr . Clarke ' s Schools for Scriptural Christians . 740
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Sir , Chicliester , Dec . 3 , 1818 . YOU have so many Correspondents possessing talents far superiur to any I can boast , I should not have presumed to request a place in the closing number of the Repository for this year , whose pages are
probably preoccupied by relatives of former communications , did it not appear to me that I have very unintentionally somewhat annoyed your worthy Correspondent Mr . Clarke , of Swaheleys , [ p . 697 , ] by considering him a favourer of Unitarian Presbyterians . If I have
done wrong in this respect , the error must be charged to the humble individual to whom I addressed mysel f at JBinham for some particulars relative to the school there ; and as this person did not appear to have much of the theologian about him , so as to have
been able to class persons according to his own judgment , I presumed that the information he gave me was such as had been delivered to him , and was consequently correct . The feelings which arose in my breast at this information , and which were in unison , I believe , wit h those of the valued Mends
who were witli me , were those of joy at finding here , not merely a school , but an Unitarian School , and of surprise at the liberality manifested by the gentry round about , in suffering
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1818, page 749, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2483/page/21/
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