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partake of that blessedness which he is now sharing with the Father in heaven . R . Manchester , Feb . 15 , 1831 .
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things as guilt and pollution in the world , or , at least , as if he himself were placed so far above them , that he did not feel their existence . This sacredness of character , iu one so young , was truly won - derful , and iu the deep fervency of his youthful piety there was felt to be something alike awful and beautiful . There was an apostolic simplicity and truth in every thing he did , a dignified
gracefulness of deportment , which even in the intimacies of a confiding friendship and the fondness of domestic life , though he was the gentlest and the most affectionate of human beings , never deserted him . There was a holiness of feeling , and a bloom ou the soul , which he would not suffer to be brushed away . This sanctity of mind , uuited to a perfect humility , exhibited one of those beautiful contrasts of character which are formed on the
model of Jesus Christ . Indeed , we knew not the being on earth so worthy to take up the triumphant language of his Master , and to say to weeping friends , " If you loved me , you would rejoice , because I go to the Father . " He possessed the same cast of excellence which we admire in the Saviour . He was of the meekness and of the gentleness of Christ , of the same breathing , seraphic piety , of the same calmness and unpresumiug
dignity . As a preacher he was distinguished by his fervour , by a sweet and most persuasive eloquence , by a remarkable beauty and justness of sentiment , and by a uerfect chasteness both of thought and of expression . His whole soul was on his lips , and it was felt even by the most indifferent auditor , that he was breathing out the very truth of his heart . And yet his devotional services are perhaps that
part of his public ministrations which will live longest in the hearts they have comforted and quickened , and , we trust , purified . He prayed as one who felt that he was with God , and who had realized to his own soul the invisible object of his holy meditations . There was an irresistible power in his prayers to still the restlessness of the mind , to fix it on heavenly thoughts , and to breathe over it the holy peace of a devotional spirit .
One of the most affecting circumstances in this lamented death is the sudden rupture of sweet links , which were but just fastened . He had been married scarcely seven mouths . " And that pure spirit found a breast , On which his owii in trust might rest ; Aud visions of home-felt delight Around him threw their angel light . "
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Obituary *—Rev * John , Hincks . * . 20 #
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Rev . John Hincks .
Feb . 5 , in the 27 th year of his age , the Uev . John Hincks , minister of the Unitarian Chapel , Renshaw Street , Liverpool . Mr . Hincks was a native of Ireland , son of the Rev . Thomas Dix Hincks , Professor of Hebrew aud Classical Master in the Belfast Institution , and brother to the Rev . William Hincks , Mathematical Tutor at York College , whom he
succeeded in his pastoral charge . The early part of his professional education was passed in Trinity College , Dublin , but his strong principles of dissent , and his love of every thing liberal , induced him to connect himself with a more unshackled , though an infant seminary , and his final preparation for the ministry was made in the classes of the Belfast
Academical Institution . In the February of 1827 , he left his home and his associates , afflicted at the thoughts of even a temporary separation , to form new friendships , even holier connexions and dearer ties , to make a place for himself in the best affections of many hearts ; and thus by his early death to send abroad the anguish of a wider bereavement . In the
August of the same year he entered on his pastoral duties in Liverpool , and from his mourning church , every individual of which is sorrowing as though stricken with a persoual calamity , the memory of his pious spirit , of his gentle
meekness , of his holy and devoted zeal , can never pass away . He lived long enough to be known , to be loved , to be reverenced , to shew us the brightness of a Christian ' s example , and he then passed to a happier aud a more congenial world . His was not a character that
required length of days to perfect ; he passed through life with an infant ' s purity ; and when he had left on earth some traces of himself , and shined into other hearts with some light from the beamings of his own lofty and glowing mind , God removed him gently to that land where it is more fitting that spirits such as his should dwell .
It was impossible to know him , or even to be in his company , without being impressed , and to those whose religious sensibilities were such as to admit of it , almost overawed , by the singular purity of his mind . He seemed to live an if he were scarcely aware that there are such
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1831, page 207, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2595/page/63/
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