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served fco as through a long succession of ages found in bhn an enlighted admirer ; so that to those who were closely connected with hinvantTentered into his pursuits , his character developed itself In very many most interesting points of view . I
will not dwell upon his virtues as a husband , a father , a friend , because the reflections they awaken are too painful for minds just wounded by the recent stroke ; but they were such as honour our religion , and threw a beauteous lustre on iris life . Let us then hasten on to the
most momentous reflection , that something beyond this transitory scene must be reserved for us by the ali-bounteous hand of our wise Creator . That man , richly endowed with intellect and noble affections , should have so short a period of existence , and that often without his
best faculties being fully called forth , must appear to us an incongruity never to be chargeable on Divine Wisdom ; and when we add with what strange inequality prosperity and adversity are distributed by a confessedly unerring Providence , the argument that this cannot be all , grows stronger : we mav therefore
look forward to another life of unspeakably greater moment ^ where every thing truly wanting shall be supplied , and every thing wrong set right . To these interesting deductions of reason the gospel gives full confirmation , and thus we may affirm that the moral government of God and his revealed will concur in rertderlng us wise to life eternal /'
The Prayer . " O Almighty God and Father of mankind ! with whom just men made perfect shall , we trust , live for ever ; in committing the body of our dear brother to the ground , earth to earth , ashes to ashes , dust to dust , we know that he is in the hands of a faithful Creator and merciful
Deliverer ; and we humbly beseech thee to teach us who survive , in this and other like daily spectacles of mortality , to see how frail and uncertain our own condition is , and so to number our days , that we may sincerely apply our hearts to that holy and heavenly wisdom while we live
here , which may in the end bring us to an unfeigned repentance for all the errors of our past Jives , and a firm reliance on thy great mercies in Christ Jesus our Lord ; that our sins may be done away , and we received into that everlasting
kingdom which thou hast made known to us by thy well-beloved Son , the deliverer of mankind from sin and death , through " whom all honour and glory be ascribed unto thee , Q Father Almighty , world without end . Amen . "
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Oikuary *—Dr . Parr . 183
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March 5 , at Haiton Parsonage > aged 78 , the Rev . Samuei , Parr , LL . D ., Prebendary of St . ' Paul's , &c . The following account of this distinguished scholar and patriot Is from The Birmingham Chronicle of March 10 . It is said to "have
been drawn up by a clergyman , the intimate and beloved friend of the deceased . "Death , and Biographical Notice , of the lieu . Dr . Parr . iC At length the hopes and fears , whicfc the illness of this great and good man has for several weeks excited through , the
county , are terminated by his dissolution , which took place on Sunday last , at 6 o ' clock in the evening , in the 79 th year of his age ; and it is pleasing to consider that the anxiety which has been so > universally manifested respecting him , is a tribute which no elevation of rank or
station could have called forth , but which is only to be commanded by the pre-eminence of moral and intellectual worth . Dr . Samuel Parr was born at Harrow . His father was a Surgeon in that place , and his paternal grandfather was Rector of Hinckley , in Leicestershire . He was at the head of Harrow School in his 14 th *
year , and on the death of the Rev . Dr . Sumner , who strongly recommended him as his successor , he was not appointed to the Head Mastership on account of his youthful age . At Harrow was formed his
friendship with the celebrated Sir William Jones and the Right Rev . Dr . Bennet , late Bishop of Cioyne ; and almost all the boys in the upper part of this School accompanied him when he removed to establish himself as a Teacher at
Stanmore , in Middlesex . He was successively Master of the Grammar Schools of Colchester and Norwich , and in 1780 received his first ecclesiastical preferment , the Rectory of Asterby , in the Diocese of Lincoln . In the year 1785 , the exchange of Asterby for the perpetual Curacy of Hatton , brought him into
Warwickshire , where he continued to reside till the day of his death . The Rev . Dr . Parr was twice -married ; first to Ann , of the ancient house of Mauleverer , in Yorkshire ; and afterwards to Mary , sister of the late Rev . James Eyre , of SolihulT , in this county . By his first wife lie had several children , all of whom died in their
infancy , except Sarah and Catliarme . Of these daughters , both of whom he survived , the former was married to John Wynne , Esq ., of Garthmeilio , in Denbighshire , and left two daughters , now living , Caroline and Augusta , the eldest of whom is the wife of the Rev . John Lynes , Rector of Elmley Lovet , in Worcestershire . In addition to the small benefice before mentioned , Dr . Parr held the living of Grattain , in Huntingclonahii'e , to » which
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1825, page 183, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2534/page/55/
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