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sequence of serious examination , at length became a steady and consistent Dissenter . And , to the praise of his good sense and moderation , it ought to be mentioned , that after becoming a Dissenter he continued to cherish the same good-will towards the worthy members of the Establishment which he entertained towards them while he remained in their
communion . When he first began to suspect the truth of the notions which he had imbibed from education , he occasionally attended the religious services of that excellent man the late Dr . Price , and perhaps his just veneration of this eminent Christian contributed to fix him for a time in the belief of the Arian hypothesis
which he embraced upon giving up the opinions of his youth . But the same inquisitive spirit which caused him to think for himself on the subject of religion , and led him to discard the prejudices of his early years , prompted him to inquire still farther , and shortly conducted him to what has of late years been generally called proper Unitarian ism , of the
truth of which , from the time when he first felt the force of its evidence , he does not appear ever to have entertained even a momentary doubt . Nor amidst the revolution which took place in his religious opinions was the steadiness of his faith in revelation ever shaken , a faith which he prized as of the highest value , and which he experienced to be the source of rich consolation under the trials and
vicissitudes of life . In his belief of Christianity he was strongly confirmed by the argument from prophecy as treated by Mr . Evanson , in which argument , indeed , he placed such confidence as to prefer it
to the direct proof of historical testimony . It will be readily supposed that he who was a Dissenter upon deliberate conviction was also a firm friend to civil and religious liberty- But it was liberty that he loved , not licentiousness . He wished
to see all men enjoying all the freedom which is consistent with good order and the best interests of society ; but he did not wish to see old institutions rudely overthrown because they were confessedly imperfect , nor to behold untried theories rashly carried into effect , to the demolition of ancient usages and
customs , while it remained problematical what good would result from the change . Though , as was remarked above , he spent all the years of his life in the occupations of commerce , he found leisure for mental cultivation , and so improved his understanding by habits of reading and reflection , as to have rendered himself no uninteresting companion to men of great talents and attainments , some of whom
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he had the satisfaction to rank among his personal and particular friends . He was a frequent contributor to the Monthly Repository , under various si gnatures , and the Memoir of his respected friend Mr . Evanson , inserted in the two first
numbers of that work , proceeded from his -pen . He was a truly amiable and upright mr-n , and was held in great esteem by all those who were acquainted wiih his worth . How he sustained the relation of a parent , the respect in which his memory is held by his surviving family , and the sorrow which is felt by
them upon the loss of his society , sufficiently declare . Amidst their regret , however , they have the satisfaction to reflect that their father , after having lived as long as life is usually desirable , departed without exhibiting any appealacce either of bodily or mental pain . They moreover cannot fail to derive
consolation from the assurance , ' ? that light is sown for the righteous , and gladness for the upright in heart . " E . C . [ Mr . Spurrell was buried , on the 8 th inst ., in his family grave in the burial . ground of the Unitarian Church ,
Hackney , of which he was the oldest member ; his friend Mr . Belsham officiating , in the absence of the minister of the place through indisposition , on the occasion . In his connexion with the Gravel Pit congregation , Mr . Spurrell studied invariably to render himself useful . No one ever took
a livelier interest in the concerns of a religious society , or manifested a more conciliatory and Christian spirit . By the whole of this congregation he was highly esteemed and respected , and his loss will be long lamented by all the members of it , as it is particularly by the individual who adds these few sentences to Mr Cogaif s just and interesting obituary tri « bute . ]
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June 12 , at Sibton , in Suffolk , deeply lamented , Thomas , youngest son or Mr . Thomas Giles , of Woodbridgc , after a long-protracted illness , borne with exemplary patience and cheerful resignation .
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376 Obituary . —Mr . Giles—Rev . fFUliam Hervty . —Mr . S . Vnrley .
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Lately , at Coston , near Buckminster , in the 73 d year of his age , the Rev . William Hervey , rector of that place , and nephew to Hervey , the author of the " Meditations . ' *
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Lately , in Newman Street , aged 78 , Mr . S . Varlev . Born in humble life , aiici brought up at a village in Yorkshire
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1822, page 376, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2513/page/56/
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