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provetnent in his health that his children almost flattered themselves that years might have been added to his mortal career , but in the counsels of Providence it was otherwise , ordained , and they not only bow with submission to the Divine decree , but gratefully acknowledge that
it was a most merciful dispensation which spared them the contemplation of mental decay and much corporeal suffering . With the decliaing year his health declined , but his speedy removal was not anticipated till within two days of his disease , and then it took place very suddenly .
Those of his children who were hastily summoned to witness the last conflict , found death disarmed of his terrors , and amidst the agitation and affliction occasioned by a conviction that a final separation in this world had taken place , they felt as if treading on hallowed ground . The deep repose which rested on the features of their honoured father seemed
to assist their conviction that he would be awakened from it at the dawn , and partake of the engagments of that interminable day which will shine with increasing brightness for ever and ever . Fain would they retain a vivid impression of that sadly pleasing scene . Such a transition is in accordance with the
following extract from some lines written by him some years ago : O may some messenger of love , Commissioned from the courts above , Attend me thro' the mystic flight , To the fair realms of perfect light I
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In this our final notice to Correspondents , we have to acknowledge the receipt of communications , which for various reasons have not been used , from Messrs Ashdowne ; J . C . Means ; and Discipulus ; on the subject of Baptism . Phiialethes * paper is left for him at the publishers ' . We wish the poetic merit had equalled the piety of J . E . ' s " Lines . " The packet from our much respected correspondent G . A . of Ireland , did not come to hand till our two numbers for November and December were made up
and nearly worked off . Guillaume will see that we have anticipated his wish in the present Number . Should any communications be hereafter addressed to the Editor , they will as a matter of course be forwarded , unless otherwise directed , to the Conductors of the New Series .
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May his surviving children aspire to an imitation of his excellencies , and thusb permitted to hope that their latter end may be like his ! He was interred on the 18 th inst . in the burial-ground of the Lewin ' s Mead Congregation , and in the same vault with his venerated predecessor at Castle Green the Rev . Mr . Jellard , where also it is
supposed the remains of his infant son and first-born child were deposited . A truly appropriate and affecting funeral address was delivered by the Rev . John Rowe . " Mark the perfect man and behold the upright , for the end of that man is peace . " " For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again , even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him /'
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Nov . 26 , suddenly , at Highbury Place , in his 82 nd year , sincerely lamented by a numerous circle of friends , John Nichols , Esq ., F . S . A ., author of " The History of Leicestershire , " and < c Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century , " and for nearly 50 years Editor of the cc Gentleman ' s Magazine . " This veteran in the field of literature has rendered
great service in his day to the reading public ; and though in his character of < c Sylvanus Urban , Gent ., " we do not admire his High-church and Tory principles , we must do him the justice to say , that he exhibited as much liberality and candour as could be united with those principles .
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ERRATA IN NUMBER FOR OCTOBER . P . 573 , col . 2 , line 15 from bottom , for immutilated , read unmutilate d . P . 575 , col . 1 , line 18 , from bottom , for " disease , " read decease .
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Our correspondent N . allows us to correct on his authority a mistake in the com ^ mumcatioti from Dorchester , p . 630 , col . 1 , lines 13 , 14 from the bottom : for ^ Rev .-Mr . Kiddle / ' read the Rev . James Kettle , a native of Evesham , in fVo rcesi shire , and so , Kettle for " Kiddle , " in two other places .
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The Stock of the Monthly Repository is about to be arranged , and Subscribers in want of back Volumes or Numbers are requested to make early application for them , in order to guard against disappointment . With considerable pains and expense , a few Complete Sets of the MoNTHJ ^ Kepository have been formed , and may be had , in various Bindings , of the Publishers or Printer .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1826, page 762, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2555/page/62/
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