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joyment of better health and spirits . Throughout her long sojourning in the house of her pilgrimage , her joys were heightened and her sorrows assuaged by the sublime consolations of the gospel , and , until her infirmities prevented her , she was regular iu . her attendance upon na&lfc worship , Xl * e 14 th chapter of Sw J <* hu was her deligUt , as affording
pleasing luppie&s j ons of the benevolence of tbe Deity . When flesh and heart began to fail ,, $ ie , comforting retrospect of a wellspent lHe , and the hope of a nappy futurity , sustained her hi her sufferings , and ner end was peace . May the example of this departed excellence hare its due effect upon surviving relatives and friends , and add to the number of the righteous who die in the Lord , and are blessed in their death .
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Rev . J . Hughes . Jhily I 9 th , the Rev . J . Hughes , for thirty-eight years the faithful minister of the congregation of worshipers of One God in Honiton , L > evon . John Hughes was eldest son of the venerable David Hughes , formerly . of Wincautou , Somerset , descendant of one of the oldest Nonconformist families
in the Principality , ab origine ^ from gegeration to generation distinguished by their unflinching adhesion to the princip les of civil and religious liberty , for the noble sacrifices they made , and for the severity of their sufferings under the tyrant trample of Church ao . d King ..
A , rod > issuing from such a rooty * t is do ! to be expected that the subject oi this memoir would hare been brought op in servile bondage lo catechisms and creeds ; in facts , early as the year 1760 , bi& father , then a very young man , in passing through the ordeal vi ordination , pertinaciously refused to subscribe hta cpeda to articles of faith l * e could neither comprehend nor understand ,
and ilk so doing affixed a slam upon hia orthodoxy , uo more ; to be washed out than the blood-spot from the litUe hand of Lady Macbeth , which stock to him , like the leprosy to Naajnan , to the last moment of Jiis life- —notwithstanding which , full of years , or rather full of good works , he went to hi * grave like a shock of corn in its season , followed by the deep regrets of all who knew him .
At the proper age Jotop Hughes , was matriculated in Coward ' s academy , then nourishing iu its meridian ,, undej ; the ftupei'lntendence of the really reverend Dta . Savage ,. Kippis , and Rvcs , and became fellow-student with many of the
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< c audacious infidels of science , " who hare since illuminated the empyretim of rational Christianity , driven the beams of heavenly truth into the Erebus of mystery , and , like so many criers in the wilderness , prepared the way of what may , without presumption , be deemed the firs , t streaks of that morning . ;
which he who sitteth in the temple of God , opposing , and exalting himself above all that is called God and is worshiped , having received bis destined doom with the beast , and the false prophet , there shall be on all the earth One Jehovah , and his name One !
Having finished his preparatory studies at Hoxtonj he was ordained pastor of tbe Dissenting congregation in Tewkesbnry , where he had the pleasure of enjoying the friendship of the late Mrs . Doddridge , relict of the justly celebrated Dr . Efoddridge , and hfs family . But , wishing to be near his brother , who had succeeded Dr . Isaac Smith in the
ministry at Sid mo nth , ou receiving as * unanimous invitation to become pastor of the united General Baptist and Presbyterian Churches i » Hotriton , he accepted it , and removed thither . And here it wa& the happiness of his life to be associated with a people alter his own heart , of inquiring minds and Catholic spirit , not a few of them of religknta
convictions antagonist to his own , and whose ideas of him have recently bee » most unequivocally expressed . Alas ! U was the muhappbtess , to * , one by one , to follow the remains of those he first loved to tbe house appointed for alt the living—and to see not a few of the remnants of the dear departed toru up by tbe whirlwinds of circumstances , and scaUeved like leaves of autumn over the
surface of the earth . But for this % the Rev ., John Hughes had loug since sought a calm retirement from the field from which his iufinmties had warned him to withdraw . He could not forsake the little flock in it * extremity I The chances were mighty that it would never enjoy the benefit oi another shepherd ' s superinteocleiicel la much weakness—in g * eat bodily
iuconveme » ce > not without frequent interruptions , he continued tbitft to toil on till JWidsuminer last . Ah ! deprived then of the friend of his bosom , the staff of hia age , tbe late fsaae Cax , Esq ., ( of whom a memoir liavs recently appeajtjd in t ) * e Repositorry , ) this was a stroke he had no longer strength to hear I Hte heart had received it& death-wound L-r from thenceforward , though , habitually checrCul , he 6 iuile 4 uo more 1—Coc a f «"
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7 \ S Obituary . —Ren . «/ . Hughes .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1831, page 718, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2602/page/66/
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