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    ^ Y&l ^ & k ^ ' itetf&t Pyyefcytetiaii inmteter , go to the tan ^ yard and trim bafk . ' This tibcatoefrwiMfoery ' -iMjii over-ruled by hb toother , who was a serious good woman , and affirm Dissenter . * '' - ' ¦ ¦ > - * ¦ - / - * ¦ ¦• : ; '

    " He * went to Glasgow i » the year 1734 , and continued there four years ; two 6 f which he chiefly spent in stud y ing ethics under Mr ., afterwards Dr . Hutcheson ; and the rest of the time in attending the lectures of different professors .

    €€ iHfe succeeded at Bahbury , the Reir . J \ Ir . Davies , whose ottl ^ daughter he married , but whom it pleased God to take from him , as also their only child , at an early period of his life . " He was a diligent student and

    learned man , and had nattering proposals made to him to go into the Church ; but , I presume , could not in conscience accept of them . When , in the latter part of life , one of his acquaintance said to him , * You had better , friend , have taken the proposals / &c , he replied , * I hive never yet repented of the choice I then made /

    "He was a plain , serious and artless preacher ; and was thought to excel many of his brethren in prayer , administering the Lords ' Supper , and the ordinance of baptism . ,

    " He published two pamphlets in defence of the doctrine of atonement . The first was an answer to some things which Dr . Johtt Taylor , and the last which Dr . Priestley had advanced on

    the opposite side of the question ; in froth which he treated his opponents in a manner becoming the gentleman and the Christian divine . *• He was a very meek , peaceable and affable man , and much esteemed

    by his neighbours and friends , to whom ! & 9 company was veiy agreeable in the various circles of polite life ; where , as he carefully avoided giving offence , so he scarcely ev ^ i ^ iiv ^ fny . And so much was he respected by the Episcopal clerirv , that three rot them not

    billy attended his funeral ^ but were also present at the service which took place immediately afte ^ iu [ his own meeting-house , n . . f y * ; ,.. v ¦ : ^ Itj itot $ d <* -I * prii # ^ a ^ buted to his ammble andyC ^^ qjiiating manners / that the members of the EstabUshed Ghiirphhavigr assembled , for the worship of God , in his meeting-

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    house for several years ^ while tteir ow » place of woi ^ hip has b ^ en re ^ tmilding ; - ' ¦ ¦ H : - /> m - - ^ ' A : **** > fM M * *; .. ' " He appeared td think aiidipeak of hid dissolution ^ a lon ^ tinie before it took plaee > in a way highly becoming the * man and the Ghmtian , and as did

    great ' honour to < 3 hri ^ tianit ^; Having tittle or no fear of' being dead , though some little of the act of dyings he rather wished , if it was the wilt of God , that he might expire suddenly , which was in some measure the case . For though he was fer advanced in life , and troubled with a very bad cough , so that he had not been able for a

    considerable time to lie down much in bed , and of late not at all ; and was evidently wearii ^ away apace ; : yet he visited his friends and pursued his studies to the last , and even came out of his room and inquired after his breakfast the morning on which he died ; but in descending the stairs sank away , and soon expired .

    €€ He was generally cheerful , and , though a dihgent' student , scarcely knew what low spirits meant , and had never been confined tir'hi ^ b 4 d m day by sickness , except when he had the small-pox . ¦•¦ ¦ ¦ ' s ¦ ••* , > *** > *' . ? .-- "He was interred in a m « nner that

    did great honour both to the dead and to his friends , who paid this last tribute of respect to the person : of their venerable pastor . ) . ' ^ * " His funeral sermon was preached ^ to a crowded and attentive audience .

    by the Rev . Joseph Jevans , of Bloxhaip , ftom Heb- xi . 4 : AjiflL by it , he being dead yet speaketh / € which , after first speaking < of the mortality of man , he directed tSie friends of the deceased to consider him

    as still speaking to them by his past public services , his publications and his general behaviour $ and closed the address much as follows : " Who of us is not sorry ^ for the death of our friend £ Who ib not glad that' the weary hea < t ^ ofN 3 od ' 8 '' aged servant iss laid to rest' in WpwAea of death ? Who > would ? brm 6 fJWm back

    again to the scene ofl sorrofw that he hath lately gone through , ifithe slightest wish of theTheairt would eflfectit ^? Who does > not - beUeve that iher sleepeth W Jesus } ¦ And who is ^ nbf ^ iii ^ w&MMmfaiM ^^ ^ m & m ^^^^^^^^^^ ^ l * May you , who wereili ^^ Spd ^ f

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    tf&p ^ R M $ 32 Memoir ^ m ^ % ^ Giw geHdWphn ,. ) i .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1820, page 632, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2494/page/4/