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roents in a sermon on the following Sunday . With respect to himself , it fedf to a farther examination of the Calvinisrical doctrines , which terminated in a complete refc-uuciatfon 06 tbem * as being unscriptural and unreasonable .
Soon after the expiration of his apprenticeship he left Sev « n * Oak& , and was some time at Croydon , where he was an active and useful metnlser o £ a congregation . About thafc time he . married BacbeL , the daughter of Mr , Prince , of Abintgdan , in Berkshire : she was a most pious and amiable woman , who entered
late all his views respecting religious truth . They lived many years together as heirs of the grace of life . Sfoe has been dead about fouirteen years . About ten years since be lost a raost dutiful and affectionate son , who left a young widow
and several children ; these were taken under the care and protection of the deceased , who treated them with all the tenderness of an affectionate * parent , and made all the provision in his * power for their future comfort and support *
Through life he was an ornament to the Christian profession , exhibiting the energy of Unitarian principles to give comfort and support in all the vicissitudes of life ; an affectionate husband , a tender father , a faithful friend ; beloved of all who knew him ; of an enlarged niind r a sound , penetrating judgment , an Israelite indeed , in whom wa& no guile .
The witter of the above was Hi the habits of intimacy with hkn for more than fifty years , and in his last illness , which confined him to his chamber and to his bed for about twelve months , con * stantly visited him . He always found him in the same happy frame of mind , perfectly resigned to the will of his
heavenly Father , contempiatin-g with delight the promises of the gospel , expatiating on the paternal character of the Divine Being , and possessing unshaken faith and confidence in his infinite goodness : and having a hope full of immortality , his conversation was truly delightful and edifying . To hiin death had no terrors ; his
mind was perplexed with no doubts ; no clouds darkened his future prospects . How often have I wished , when sitting ' by bis bed-side , that some of our fellow-Christians , whose prejudices lead them to suppose that Unitarianisni can afford
no support or consolation on a dying bed , liad been present to hear his heavenly discourses , to witness his triumph over dreath and the gravc ^ his calm resignation to the will of God , and h \ n assured hope of glory and imiwort'aHty : in short , ^ ° see with what fortitude Unitarian ism can support the luiacl undev the most trying
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afflictions , and in the prospect of death lift up tl ? e head of the Unitarian with jay , knowing that his redemption draweth near !
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364 Obituary ^ —J } &ro n Maseres .
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May 10 , aged 9 $ , Francis Maseres , Esq ., M . A ., F . R . S , Cursitor-Baron of the Exchequer . He was of a Freneh refugee family that had been the victim of the atrocious edict of Nantes . He was educated at Kin ^ sten-upoa-Tnames , under the Rev . Dr . Woodesson , and was
afterwards a Fellow of Clare-Half ,. Cainbridge ; and in 1752 he obtained one of the Chancellor ' s medals ttoere , the other being conferred on the late Rev . J > r . Porteus . He removed from the University to the Temple , and his first appointment was that of Attorney-General of Quebec . On his return to England he was made Cursit or-Baron- of the
Exchequer . He very early displayed that profound knowledge of mathematics , to the peculiar study of which he had devoted himself , and to which he was , no doubt , excited by the many celebrated names which , in this department of science , have done lidnbur to that celebrated
University . He published , as early as 1759 , a work 011 the negative sign , in which he argued against the received doctrine of negative quantities ; and some time afterwards published his valuable collection of the " Scriptores Logarith-^¦ uk . ft V 99 _ , * , » . a * •_» j-k . a * A A * . *•»_ * -v h ^_ *« K- » ^ -w « - ^ I ¦ * vs ^ V raiciin 6 vols 4 to work Lire
^* , . ^^ , " . . ; a on Annuities ; and several historical works , among which were May ' s History of the Parliament , and Ludlow ' s Letters . It was to the liberal and enlightened patronage of Baron Maseres that the public are indebted for the Rev . John Hellins ' s
valuable translation of Donna Agnesi s *< Instituzioni Analyticiie . " It had been translated many years before by the late Professor Colson , the ingenious Commentator on the Fluxions of Newton . Baron Maseres , who in his early life had known Colson , and had reason to infer from his conversation that he had
written a treatise on the higher geometry which he had never published , was desirous of discovering this manuscript , and of giving it to the world . In his search he found , not the work he looked for , but the translation just mentioned ; and after removing some pecuniary difficulties , which , without such generous
assistance , would probably have for ever withheld it from the world , he obtained a copy of it , and put it into the hands of Mr . If elfins ,, who undertook to become its editor , and under whose inspection it was printed in 1 & 04 . His mind , as might naturally be expected , was early imbued with the hatred : of- *? very thing like religion ^ persecution , In politics , hv was a .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1824, page 364, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2525/page/44/
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