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m The Rev . Sampson Kingsford . Eternal mansions , blight array—\ 0 blest exchange , transporting thought ! F % 0 e from the approaches of decay , ; ' 0 r the least shadow of a spot ! Tlbere shall mortality no more ' : Its wide-extended empire boast ; I&gotten all its dreadful power , In Life ' s unbounded ocean lost !
: The Rev . Sampson Kingsford was fa&rn in the year 1750 , at Sturry , near G | nterbury . His parents were pious and r || pectable . His father died many years agp , but his mother , a venerable lady , is rf | ently deceased , at a very advanced f , being a prodigy of health and vigour the expiration of an almost revolving cititury ! He used to expatiate on the
advantages of a religious education with gratitude . To this most important circtijn stance his revered parents paid strict attention . Hence he always- regarded them with an affectionate esteem , imitating their virtues through life , and deviiutry venerating their memory . * In the year 1766 , Dec . 7 th , and at the
early age of sixteen , he wag baptized , and tdok upon him the profession of the religion df Christ . He deemed it a duty enjoined by his Master , who , at his own baptism , declared , thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness . He well knew that it was riot an idle rite or an insignificant ceremony . He bowed to an authority which
was imperative . Regarding the New Testament to be the alone rule of failh s * twl practice , he dared not neglect an institution which is there solemnly and lffcpeatedly enjoined . He viewed baptism ,
As the Apostle Peter hath represented it , h&t the putting away the filth of the flesh , but the answer of a good conscience towards God . Having thus made a public profession of religion , he attended sedulously to all the duties which it involved . At that period there were in the church young persona seriously inclined to improve themselves in an acquaintance with the Holy Scriptures . Conferences were held , where passages were explained to their mutual satisfaction . This was fa ~ —— — — , 1— , , , , . ,, h .
* His eldest brother , IVillmm Kings ford , Esq .,. of Barton Mills , died a few years ago , a gentleman distinguished'for his benevolence rind piety . A yoitngGl brpjther and sister surtfre tfktii ^ Mtckaei Kingsford , £ sq ., of Dover , and Mwto Child , widow of Michael Child , Esq ., at Canterbury .
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vourable to lnteltecfctial and moral i ^ jfe . proveinent . Religious knowledge w | extended > and the exercises ofc piety chj $ - rished . With some these social ' meetings terminated in a more public exhibitioli of talent , in a wider sphere of usefulnes ^ Accordinglv , our deceased friend was left
to think of the pulpit , which he afterwards filled for so many year& with credft to himself , and with so much advantage to his own religious community . . ^ On the 2 d day of Dec , 1770 , he wag regularly called by the Church to preacll •* — — m w ¦<* < k ' * V
and officiated with acceptance among them . He was how only twenty years of age .. But his ardent love of informal tion , particularly that to be derived from the Holy Scriptures , joined to an unwearied activity , made him very useful in his new profession . Not having an education
jbr the ministry , he thus supplied tfci deficiency in the best manner he wais able . Indeed , it is wonderful how mucJi may be done by the exorcise of a goojjl understanding in the study of the Sacred
Writings . Scripture is the best interpreter of scripture ; and this position & happily exemplified by the usefulness of those individuals wlio have not beei } trained for the Christian ministry . 4 t this time he assisted Mr . Oldfield and
Mr . Chapman ; . so acceptable were hfe labours that they wished him to be ois * dained amongst them . This he modestly declined ; for he was not ordained till after the expiration of ten years , whefi , on the 3 rd of September , 1781 , he was devoted to the office of the ministry by the Messrs . Evershed and Boornian ,
messengers , a primitive office stHl retaineij by the General Baptists . And here it is somewhat remarkable * that , in tlie ac ^ joining cemetery , on this same day of th& month * September 3 , 4 B 2 JU jjftn ^ jfeatf * after , he was consigned to the silence of the tomb ! For many years he and the venerable Mr . Chapman officiated alternately in the exercises of the pulpit ; and on Mr . Chapman ' s death , . Mr . Farren became his assistant , and survives him . * Nor must it be omitted , that at Sturry , where he always resided , till his recent removal on His eldest son ' s marriage to Canterbury , he many years agd fitted up a neat
* Mr . Chapman died ftt » n advance d age , and has a grand ^ on ^ a » old pupil <** mine , the Ber ± Edwm jQtoPttian * sett ** * at Billingshurst , Sussex . May every sussess attend his labours in the Christian ministry .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1821, page 556, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2504/page/52/
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