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of the » e prdfe ** toiH far the apace of nearly half a century , with a decree of acceptance and popularity which has been fft'ldom surpassed . Hm benerolence * liberality , and disintereste < tae *» * recom * mended him to all classes , insomuch that his opinion had greater weight with the public than that of most of his contemporaries . TliiS was not to be ascribed
to any thing like ostentation or puffing " on his part , for no one could be more flee from that infirmity ; but the cheer * fulness of his temper ied him to see erery thing in a favourable light , so that his hopes and predictions encouraged and supported hU patients under maladies which the inmost efforts of his skill , and of that of his professional brethren , were insufficient to remove . In aid of this a
peculiar vein of huifcroitr , which he never failed to make subservient to some goodnatured purpose , had very considerable effect . It Is not therefore to be won * dered at that he was fond of his profession ; the fatig-ues of which he continued to encounter long after the infirmities of age , ami the frequent attacks of a pa ' mful disease , should have warned him to
retire . During his pfoTessfotrai studies in the metropolis , attendance on the public services of thfc celebrated Mr . Martin < Madart , and other divines of that class , made him extremely partial to a system characterised more by orthodoxy than by reasonableness or moderation . After
wards a candid spirit of inquiry led htm to pertise with attention the theological and metaphysical writings of Dr . Priestley , and he became a thorough concert to most of the opinions adrocated by that distinguished man . On the subjects of the controversy between the Unitarian-s and their opponents , his diligence of
research conid be equalled only by hrs impartiality . He read almost every thing of consequence on both fchtas of the question : and , not content with reading , he extracted , and with unwearied labour brought together in opposition , the Sn ^ numerable texts , topics , and arguments adduced by each party . The ostensible
result of all this was several bulky volumes of manuscript , and the internal effect a deep-rooted conviction that Unitartanism is the doctrine of the gospel . In connexion with this , his ideas of the Divine government were in perfect uwfwin
with those so ably and pleasingly stated in Mr . Lindscy's Conversations on that subject . Of the . se sentiments the natural and happy result was a fervent and cheerful piety , and an entire submission to his Maker under very painful trials . In Iiis last illucs * , till within two or
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that her husband , in whose supporting ; irnis she had been slumbering , wa « not for some time aware of the loss he had sustained . Mrs . Brown was trained up , till her twentieth year , in the system of
Calvinism , yet her well-constructed mind could never receive that revolting creed ; and her disposition aud conduct were worthy of the more liberal Christian views which she adopted . T . U Bramfieldj Suffolk *
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Obituary . —William Guy , E $ q . bUS
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Sept . 1 , at his house in the TVesl Street , Chichester , in the 78 th year of his age , Wiixiam Guy , Esq ., Surgeon . If general and signal worth of charac * ter , united to a sincere and enlightened attachment to thbse views of Christian
doctrine which for so long a series of years the Monthly Repository has most ably and successfully advocated * may give a claim to a place in itis obituary , few individuals can have a greater claim to that distinction than the subject of this article .
Mr . Guy was born at Northampton . His mother dying when he wa « very young , his father , who tv&s of the me < - dical profession > ietnoved to London , and soon afterwards vo Chichester , in the near neighbourhood of which city several of his more immediate relatives filled
respectable situations &s agriculturists The Hue of Mr * G . aen . ' -s practice wis that of an apothecary * and was therefore necessarily confined : he hevertheless took his soiij when he left tlie gramrtiar ^ -school , as an articled apprentice . In the letter part of thia connexion the young medical
tfleve entered into a temporary partnership with some itinerant moculator for the small-pox . iTiirs proved a source of no small pecuniary emolument . After a very short interval Mr . G . entered on his professional studies in Lcmdoii ) when he was received as a house pupil under Mr .
John Hunter , and as a dresser , and in other respects &s ari assistant , to Mr . Bromfteld at Su Geovgfc ' s Hospital . In all these situations he attended with great diligence Dr . George Fordyceott the different subjects on which he lectured , and I >»\ WiUiaai Hume * on aufttotny , and his host and preceptor J . Eta liter on surgery .
fu the year 1772 , his pursuits were interrupted by a severe illness , and by thtj measures necessary to confirm his recovery from it . Alter no long interval he ^ turned to Chichester , and entered into partnership with his father , practising as a medical surgeon and accoucheur , and t'outiimiiig to perform the laborious duties
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1825, page 656, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2540/page/49/
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