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writer of this memoir can attest ) he con - sidered the medium through which he received the ( title , to be that which gave it , in his estimation , its greatest value ; but his life was drawing to its close , and with it the enjoyment of the honour so deservedly bestowed . His health began
to decline , and there is reason to believe that the death of the late Dr . Lindsay , to whom he was strongly attached , gave a shock to his frame which it never recovered , and brought forward into rapid growth , the seeds of that fatal disease which terminated his life .
Dr . Morgan was a man of liberal sentiments in religion , a Protestant Dissenter on principle , but without bigotry ; and in his relations and character , as a man and a member of society , he was distinguished for the love of order and peace , which he connected with independence of
mind , and a high sense of honour and integrity . As a minister , one who was in the habit of hearing his public discourses , his pastor and oldest friend , who preached the sermon on occasion of his death , has said , " Dr . Morgan was judicious and instructive ; but some have
thought , that had he been less formal aild somewhat more sprightly and animated both in his compositions and delivery , he might have been more acceptable and popular ; but none could hear him ( unless it were their own fault ) without satisfaction and advantage . " He adds , " No man ever maintained , more uniformly , a character so consistent with his principles
and nrofessirm " Tn tVi p 1 a . tf . # » r r > f * riod nf and profession . " In the latter period of his life he was a member of Dr . Rees ' s congregation , at the chapel in Jewin Street , and a constant fellow-worshiper there , and occasionally assisted his venerable friend in his public services . — As an author , he is before the public in
two separate discourses , which do him credit as a divine and a scholar . The first is a Charity Sermon , preached before the Governors of the School in Gravel Lane ; and the second , a Discourse , delivered on the 3 rd of November , 1799 , at Salters * Hall * But he may be referred to on a larger scale as an historian , in an
* In this Sermon Dr . Morgan has given an historical view of the rise and progress and establishment of Christianity ; of the persecutions to which its early professors were exposed under the Roman emperors ; ° f the state of religion in the dark and middle ages in different nations of Europe ; of the Reformation ; of the various circumstances which led to it ; and the trials and sufferings of the Reformers themselves .
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extensive work of great Value and interest — " The General Biography , " in which Dr . Enfield , Dr . Aikin and others , were concerned . The difitrlfnfc Lives which he wrote , ( and to which he has added t . he initial of his surname , ) will shew with what care and judgment he collected ; examined and arranged his- materials :
He was also engaged as a Reviewer of the Foreign and Domestic Literature , in the New Annual Register , from the time when the late Dr . Kippis resigned Ms concern with that work , till the year 1800 , and was united in forming a valuble collection of Hymns for Public Worship , with Dr . Kippis , Dr . Rees and Mr .
Jervis , which has been very generally adopted by the Presbyterian congregations throughout the kingdom . Such was Dr . Morgan , as a man , a Christian , a minister of the gospel , and a writer . A near relation , who offers this memoir of his life
to the public notice , and who pays ( as he trusts ) an impartial and just tribute to the memory of departed worth , will be allowed to close his account by giving the expression of his own feelings , and that of many other surviving friends , in the words of the Roman poet :
Quis desideno sit aut pudor , aut modus Tarn chari capitis ? Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit . Hor . On Friday the 27 th of July , the mortal remains of our departed friend were deposited in Bunhili Fields , in the vault of the late Dr . Williams , the founder of
the Library in Red-Cross Street . This was done in consequence of a resolution of the Trustees , passed at their meeting on the preceding Wednesday ; and which was communicated to his brother-in-law , recently appointed the executor to his Will . The Rev . Mr . Aspland delivered the AddreSvS at his funeral . It was an oration
truly appropriate , eloquent , affecting and impressive . Two ministers and two lay gentlemen supported the pall : these were , the Rev . Dr . Rees , bis venerable tutor , the Rev . Mr . Coates , J . Young and Joseph Yallowley , Esqs .
The gentleman last mentioned , his near neighbour , as he had it in his power , so he had it constantly in his inclination and will , to visit and assist Dr . Morgan in various ways during his last illness , and he was with him when he died . " There
is a friend who sticketh closer than a brother . " The mourners who followed the body to the tomb , were the brother and nephew-in-law of the deceased , with Dr . N . Philipps from Sheffield , a near relation , and G . Lewis , Esq ., one of his oldest friends , and others of his former acquain-
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Obittiary . —Rev . Thomas Morgan , LL . D . 4 , 93
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1821, page 493, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2503/page/53/
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