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77 ^ Ob ituary . —Mr ' . D . Stan $ feld .- *~ Rev . J * Isaac . —Lord Etlenitiroug h *
providence of God to consider in connexidii with this its bereaving * stroke , their comforts past and remaining * . Through a great part of their earthly journey their san has been a solace to them , and now they sorrow not without hope of meeting him again in a more exalted and happy 6 tate of being * , and they must feel ( and the very best of men must feel ) the reasonableness and force of the expostulation
whether it be addressed to irreligious accusers of the divine dealings , or to a person ' s own heart , What ! shall we receive good at the hand of God , and shall we not receive evil - " or temporary
chastisements ? The consolations by Christ are adequate to the visitation , painful as it is , and substantial grounds for more than resignation , even for habitual gratitude and praise . His gospel teaches us that the most bitter of those afflictions that endure
but for a season , designed to advance our meetness for that future world , in which , having * been borne \ with patience and followed in their practical tendency herey they will never be reuewed , and in which there will be no distress of any kind , no more painful separation , and no more death . There the end and purpose of the Lord in those dealings with the upright in this world , which , if sense be alone or chiefly consulted , may seem severe , will be clearly discerned , and discerned with admiring thankfulness and joy . It will particularly be seen why tliose were cut down" in the midst of their days and in the vigour of their faculties , who were qualified and disposed to be useful , while many who appeared but at best to cumber the ground were permitted to stand for a much longer space . Virtue complete and unassailable , felicity unmixed and inconceivably sublime , will constitute the everlasting portion of those , who shall attain to the
resurrection of the just . The afiiicted servants of God onglit to comfort themselves with these and similar considerations , and to say after their master and pattern , and with his spirit of subinission ** the cup which my Father hath given me , shall I not drink it ?" J ) ec . 12 . 1818 . W , J .
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— 13 , at his house in St . James e s Square , Edward Law , Baron Ellenboroitgh , of Ellenborough in ( he County of Cumberland . He is said , in the Biographical Peerage , to have been born about 1750 . He was a younger son of Dr . Edmund Law , bishou of Carlisle , author of the
Considerations ^ &c , of wliom a memoir by Dr . Paley , is inserted in this Volume , pp . 289—294 . He was educated at his father's college , Peterhouse , Cambridge . Choosing- the professioa of the law , applied himself assiduously ti > it , and by slow degrees rose into practice . He first distinguished himself , we believe , at Warren Hastings ' s Trial . He was made
Attorney-general by Mr . Addington , Viscount Sid mouth , on the unexpected retreat of the Pitt administration , in 1801 $ and , on the death of Lord K nyon ,,. iu April of the next year , was made Chief Justice of the King ' s Bench and raised to the peerage . Infirmities , long visible , compelled him to relinquish this high station a few mouths ago . Hte has indeed been
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——« wt e- — — 28 , at Leeds , David Stansfeld , Esq . aged 63 years . Unsullied integrity of conduct , proceeding from guileless purity of heart ; tyc ne vole nee , that excluded no creature of Godf whether it boasted the human form or not , from its kind and
considerate regard 5 gentleness iof spirit , that would not provoke hostility , or immedia * tely disarmed it ; geagrositv , that was ever quick-sighted to the virtues , and candour that always extenuated the failings , of others : and , to crown all , piety , which
while it delighted to offer mercy , never willingly withheld sacrifice , but paid a regular and respectful attention to the forms of religion , at the same time that its spirit was prized above all price : such were the modest and unostentatious , but
solid and valuable virtues of this truly excellent man . He has left behind him a widow and twelve children , to lament the loss of a husband and father , whose conjugal and paternal character , they alone can appreciate as it deserves . One of many friends , offers this brief tribute to a good man ' s memory .
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Dec . 2 , atMoretonkampstead ^ in Devonshire , the Rev . Jacob Isaac ; , during- many years minister of I lie Society of Unitarian Baptists in that town . For deep and habitual seriousness of spirit , for the most engaging simplicity of manners , for undaunted zeal in the cause of his Divine
Master , for a generous , delicate regard to the sorrows of the poor , the sick and the destitute , and for pious gratitude and resignation , amidst agonies that human skill could neither remove nor soften , he has left behind him a name , over which his family and friends will long muse with a melancholy joy . [ We have reason to hope for a more particular account of this excellent man , from the pen of one who knew and loved him . ]
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Nov . 28 , at liishopwearmouthj in the 45 th yfar of his age , George Wilson Meadley , Esq ., the biographer of Dr . Paley , and the author of u Memoirs of Algernon Sydney / '
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1818, page 772, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2483/page/44/
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