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any intermediate change of residence ; and on the very spot where he had so
long "? and so successfully , laboured , were bis mortal remains deposited . For many years did he witness the growing prosperity of that religions interest , for the establishment of which he had struggled
so hard in his early days . It was his hap * p iness , as a parent , to see all his children walking in the truth , and adorning their Christian profession ; and after a public life of about 44 years , he finished his course with joy , in the 62 nd year of his age .
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express their sorrow for the loss of a master ever considerate and kind . Not * withstanding those concerns , his situation in life afforded him a large portion of leisure , which he wasted not in sloth or frivolous pursuits , hut employed in cultivating his mind by the perusal of ingenious and useful volumes , and particularly in philosophical researches and experiments He professed a steady belief of the divine origin of the Christian
revelation , and a strong sense of its transcendent excellence . His views of religion appeared to he rational and scriptural , and his attendance on the offices of public devotion and instruction at the Westgate Meeting-house at Lewes , serious and solemn 5 but they were often interrupted by the feeble and precarious state of his health .
Sudden deMh holds out an awful lesson to survivors ; but to the victims of it , if in a state of preparation ( as we trust was the case with the lamented subject of this brief memorial ) it may be justly regarded , at least in one view , as a privilege . His removal , so unexpected and surprising , is a providential dispensation loudly
calliupon his acquaintance , friends and relations , without delay to commence the practice of religious ^ virtue , or to redouble their diligence in it . The suddenness of his death , however , is a circumstance , which should not be permitted to inflame the grief of those to whom he was most dear .
but should rather conduce to mitigate it , as it may have been mercifully appointed to spare him those protracted bodily sufferings ( so distressing to the affectionate witnesses of them ) which often fall on the good as well as others in the last stage of their ' earthly existence .
The death of this interesting person has excited a very general regret in the townr and its vicinity , and much tender solicitude on the account of his worthy and deeply-afflicted parents . Every breast which js seasoned with humanity and com - passion must feelingly sympathize with them , mourning under a stroke , which
has rended from them such a son , has left them childless , has dashed to the ground their fondest expectations , and blotted out their most cheering prospects respecting the present life and world . But the religious character , which through a long series of year * they have uniformly sustained , encourages their friends to
hope , that they will not sutler their minds to be overwhelmed by immoderately-swell ing floods of sorrow . They are happily no strangers to the principles and methods by which grief is best softened , and even rendered beneficial . On this most trying occasion may they he influenced to resort to them , and effectually to apply them They will not forget that it is du * to ' the
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Obituary . —Rev . Benjamin Oafflee . —Rev . Dr . Balfour . —Mr . S . SnashalL 771
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Oct . 9 , after a long illness , the Rev-Benjamin Gaffee , pastor of the Independent Church at Stansted , Essex , formerly of New Broad Street , London .
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— 12 , the Rev . Dr . Balfour , one of the ministers of Glasgow . After meeting some young- persons , previous to their admission to the communion , in returning home , about two o ' clock , he was seized hy a fit , taken into a friend ' s house , and languished until the next day , when he departed .
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— 19 , in his 36 th year , Mr . Samuel Snashall , only son of Samuel Snushall , Esq . of Lewes , in Sussex . On the Monday before , he was seized by a fit of epilepsy , from the effects of which , he was in a few days so far recovered as to encourage the
hope of a restoration , at no great distance of time , to his usual measure of bodily strength . On the evening of the following Sunday , he retired to rest apparently in comfortable health and spirits , intending to go the next day to Brighton for the benefit of
sea-bathing . But the Supreme Disposer had otherwise determined concerning him . The person who first entered his chamber the next morning found him a corpse . It is the opinion of the medical gentleman Who attended him , that he expired in a fit of the same kind with the first , and
probably in his sleep . There was no symptom of any struggle , or appearance of a change of posture occasioned by uneasiness . The talents , sound judgment , literary attainments , and mild and polished manners of this young gentleman ,
accompanied with unimpeached probity , and with habits of sobriety and prudence , too rare among persons of his age and fortune , gave him a just . title to the high esteem in which he was held by those who had
the advantage of intimately knowing him . His entertaining * and instructive converse in the small domestic circle , will always be remembered with mingled sensations of mental pleasure and pain . Those who served him in his agricultural concerns ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1818, page 771, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2483/page/43/
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