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INTELLIGENCE.
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^> tef , ^^ £ « Q ? ^ S ° ^ W aod 6 f trtiMi , aiTd tirttfett i foink of life power and wisdom and goodness , T aim ' enabled to say , ' Not iny will , but thme be done / " He bleisM God for the consolation and horpe afforded by the Scriptures * he said he had founded his faith
and hope upon , them alone , and that if he had erred in his belief , he felt assured he should be forgiven . He declared his belief in the unity of God ; in the divine mission of JesuS ; and in ' the final salvation of all mankind . He said that God was a Being of mercy and forgiveness , and would not that any of his creatures
should perish everlastingly ; but that sinners would be purified and rendered fit for happiness by sufferings proportioned to their guilt . He endeavoured to console his sorrowing family by saying ^ he was only failing asleep fbr a little period , that their separation from him would not be final , that he felt assured they should all meet again in a better world , and
filially resigned his spirit into the hands of Him who gave it , without a struggle or a sigh . R . C .
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1822 . Jan . 18 th , at Hackney * An # e , the wife of G . T . Goodbehere , Esi | ., nephew of the late Alderman Goodbehere . Her death occurred in the folio wing
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Secession of Rev . S . C . Fripp from the Established Church . We are informed , that on Sunday evening , January the 6 th , the Rev . S . C . Fripp , or * Bristol , late a Clergyman of the Established Church , delivered , in Lewin ' s Mead , to a very crowded congregation , a Discourse on the leading doctrines of Unitarianism , explicitly
avowing his adoption of them and consequent secession from the Church . It is well known to several of our readers , that Mr . Fripp has I 6 ng been engaged in religious inquiry ; and that , during the greater part of the time , he has avoided officiating as a clergyman . Above two years ago , he declined making
application for a living , which is in the gift pf the Bristol Corporation , ( ajn 4 which , rt is undemoood > he had good reason to expect , through the influence of a near relative who is a respectable member pf Uf ) lest he should tjhus be Washed in his search after trutiT ; PTtfiea assigned to that gentiemiu . ( tMJifete 6 f : lii 8 riimd in reference to ira | dbctruies of the Church ? E ^ am } , . as the ^ ln 8 . to > a 6 e Q ^ fit ^ fyi appticiioa .
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On the 13 th of January , after the morning service , a Meeting , of the Lewin ' s Mead Congregation was held , at whjch the Rev . John Rowe was called to the ' chair ; and the Rev . Dr . Carpenter proposed the following resolution , whicji was seconded by Richard Bright , Esq . and carried unanimously : '
" That this Meeting have great satisfaction in the result of the Rev . 8 . C . Fripp ' s examination into the important points at issue between the Unitarian and the Trinitarian ; and cordially congratulate him on his open , firm and temperate avowal of those sentiments id
which he has been led' by a deliberate and ( they doubt not ) serious and earnest inquiry after Religious Tnafch : That they respect the conscientious motives which have induced h im ^ as H £ * ttikeouence of his relinqttisMtit the * iVhii * - tarian Doctrines of the Church of
England , to secede from its Conimimkm and'Worship , and to' give up hia proapect of preferment in it ; and * they trust - that ProVitfeiifce . % itt Opeti ^ doo * Hf 3 tt $ l ^ fulness and comfort TOr-him ib the Mt ^ nistry amowg ^ ttletJiiiUiHah Disee « t « d > And , that they beg him to ' accept thdr
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manner ^; : On - the $ t % & 0 ia& ifteModit \^ fW [> ite in tfc € f ^ fe | 4 | 5 iV l ^ ^^^ in stirrittgrthe ftrfe , a 1 * u ^ ift ^ f ^ ^^^ Fit ^ tracted a light shawl , whith itie wore on her shoulders , through £ he btfrs of tie grate , and the flames rapidly communicating with her muslin dress , she was sV dreadfully burned before she could alafiii the servants of the family , that she * Survived the accident only abotit ten boutfsv * Mrs . Goodbehere was in her ' 39 th year ;
she was an exemplary wife , a tender mother , a sincere and affectionate friend . She has left six young children , ( the eldest under nine years of age , ) who are , consequently , spared the calamity of estimating their irreparable loss . Her less fortunate relations and friends who feel and deeply deplore it , can only derive consolation from the conviction that the
" ways of God to man , " though mysterious , are ever merciful , and they , therefore , with humble resignation , " bow in silence and adoire the inscrutable designs of his " eternal providence / ' The remains of this amiable lady , whose fate is much lamented in her neighbourhood , were interred on Monday the 28 th inst ., in a family vault in the Burial Ground belonging to the Unitarian Church , Hackney . > '
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Intelligence.
INTELLIGENCE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1822, page 63, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2508/page/63/
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