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THE design of this Sermon is to prove and illustrate a maxim of Paley ' s , taken for a motto , that , " a religious establishment is no part of
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182 G . March 2 , at Tiverton , Devon , the Rev . John Follett , aged 83 . He was upwards or' forty years sole pastor of the congregation of Independent Dissenters in that town , where he settled on Leaving the Academy at Darentry , in the year 1764 , and continued to preach occasionally until 1816 , when a fit of apoplexy laid him aside from public usefulness ; for although his health recovered and he
retained the vigour of his faculties to ie last , he could not be prevailed on ag in to trust himself in the pulpit . His life was a long one , and ' while his piety and liberality rendered it useful and exemplary , his constitutional cheerfulness rendered it a happy life . As a preacher he was remarkable for great animation and
peculiarly forcible modes of expression . In his sentiments , Calvinism , ( if such it was to be culled , ) was moderated , particularly in later life , as much by the course of his reflections as by the benevolence of
his disposition . He was once married , but lost his partner , and had no children . But he was a " father to the poor , " ( to whose service he scrupulously devoted a third part of his income , ) and he might almost be said to have sustained lha-t
relation towards several young persons , whom the confidence of friendship or the claims of kindred had intrusted to his charge , and by whom his memory is embalmed with tears of grateful recollection . As a trustee to several public institutions he was distinguished by his punctuality and scrupulous exactness in the transaction of business . His
constitution was not originally strong , but by exercise , the constant practice of early rising , and that habitual self-government by which the truly pious mind is brought sooner or later to acquiesce wit ) i tranquil composure in all the checquered events of life , his days ' were ( under the blessing
of Providence ) prolonged to an unusual length , and continued bright and sunny to the last . The following letter , written in his 82 ad " yeaiy will give the reader a correct idea of the cast of his mind and the state of his feelings , particularly in advancing life . It was addressed to a
young female friend holding the highly im portant and responsible situation of the mother of a numerous family , and is here inserted in the hope that it may
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Christianity . ^ It is a sensible and temperate discourse , and lays open , in our view , the vital principle of Protestant Nonconformity .
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gratify and instruct such of your readers as may sustain a similar relation . Maidstone , April 25 , 1826 . G . K . Twertan , October 19 , 1824 . My dear Mrs . ,
Although you have made me so deeply your debtor by the letter you favoured me with , and although I longed to say how highly you gratified me by the pleasing account you gave me of the healthy and flourishing state of your numerous offspring , yet ( would yon believe it ?) I
went so far to indulge my lazy nt that I had desired my niece to become my respondent to you , and to assign my advanced age and growing infirmities as the cause of my silence ; yet conscience proved upon this occasion so powerful an accuser that I found 1 could not silence
its remonstrances , till 1 resolved with my own pen to thank you for your late communication , and to say how sincerely I united with you in the hope that your children would support honourable and useful characters iu the world through which they are to make their way . They
will , I doubt not , be favoured with the best of blessings , good examples , to impress deeply on the mind the best of instructions , and thus be rendered happy in themselves , a comfort to their beloved parents , and a blessing to the world . As a wife , the mistress of a family , and the
mother of so numerous a progeny , it must be acknowledged that you are placed in a very respectable and responsible , situation , and you will ueed great wisdom , strength and fortitude , to enable you to meet and bear up under all the trials to which your important situation will necessarily subject you . But great as you
will find your wants on this occasion to be , I am persuaded , my dear friend , you have long ere this learned where to apply for these , invaluable blessings , and that you are at all times , and upon all occasions , confiding and rejoicing in the interposition of a Providence whose wisdom never errs , and whose bounty can never be exhausted . It is true that
sometimes we may be led through thorny paths , or we may be tossed about oi \ the ocean of life by winds and waves , yet mercy is intended by every 'dispensation ; and could we see the dvsigu of all God ' s
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Obituary . —Rev . John Follett . — 241
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1826, page 241, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2547/page/53/
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