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promoter of innocent cheerfulness upon all occasions ; yet he was the last man -with whom a scoffer , or a libertine , would hare ventured to take a freedom . His musical acquirements contributed their aid to the charm of his society . Nature had gifted him wirh a voice of great power and excellent quality , and he had cultivated both vocal and
instrumental music with considerable success . His taste was remarkably pv > re ; and some of his Psalm-tuues may be reckoned among the most perfect specimens of that description of composition . He was for many years a member of one of the musical societies of Dublin ,
then adorned by the talents of Stevensou , Spray , Smith , and T . Cooke . His brethren in the ministry were particularly attached to him , and always delighted in his cheerful and entertaining society . With these distinguished social habits , however , he neglected not the domestic duties . His home to him
was always the centre of happiness , and from him that happiness was diffused to the humblest being within the reach <> f his influence . He was dearly loved by every inmate of his house . In his garden he took great delight , and few could excel him in horticulture . Many an affectionate friend will remember the
order which pervaded it , and the luxuriance of its productions : but when in the evening , seated iu the midst of his happy circle , he delighted all hearts with the beauty of . his reading and the excellence of his selections—it was in these hours he might be . said to present
a perfect pattern of benign enjoyment and domestic felicity . In all arrangements of life , he was remarkably exact , and his pecuniary engagements were fulfilled with scrupulous punctuality . To his friends and connexions he was ever hospitable , and to his neighbours gene , rous and kind . He took with him to
the grave the blessings of the poor , and as he never made an enemy while he lived , so his memory is sacred in the hearts of all who ever knew him . As a husband , a father , and a friend , he stood pre-eminent , and as a bright pattern of Christian excellence , he presented a model which well and fitly illustrated the
doctrines he impressed upon others . He possessed , in a remarkable degree , attachment to all the members of his family , and also to his native city ; and though early separated from his paternal roof , neither time nor distance had the power to weaken those bonds of affection which united him to them . Of his numerous relations , there was not one
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in whose welfare he did not take the interest of a father or a brother , and during his long life this delightful union of hearts was never , in a single instance , broken or impaired . He Was accustomed , about every seventh year , to visit Norfolk , there to assemble his relations around him : and never were the
interchanges of family affection more sincerely and conspicuously manifested . His feeliugs on one of these delightful occasions are thus described in a letter to his colleague , the Rev . Joseph Hutton , in the summer of 1796 : " I Cannot , " he says , express how much I am affected bv the kind and unremitting
attentions of all my dear relatives to fill up every hour in rational enjoyment which sleep does not occupy . We are at my brother John ' s , where we are enjoying the constant feast of his company and conversation , to which few women could add so much as the very uncommon and elevated character with which
it has been his merited good fortune to become united . This is to be our grand week of family union . Our meeting will be large , and promises as much happiness as can reasonably be hoped for . Yet tell the worthy members of our flock , " he adds , " that their absent pastor , even amidst these scenes of
abundant domestic gratification , is never forgetful of them , or indifferent to their interests . I rejoice to hear of their general welfare . I beg you will present my affectionate regards to all , as you shall happen to see them , and express the pleasure I have in the hope of returning to them with better health and capacity to serve them as 1 could wish . " Dated Norwich , July 19 , 1796 .
Mr . Taylor was a Nonconformist of the old school : steady , conscientious , unflinching , in his attachment to the principles of civil and religious liberty , through a period and in a country in which such a consistent profession was not easy . His earliest religious and political impressions were formed at a time when the attempt of the Pretender to regain the crown of his ancestors was a
comparatively recent event ; and when , among the Dissenters in particular , popery and slavery were terms seldom disunited . Among his first associates in the ministry were those who had been actively engaged in opposing that puny bantling of legitimacy in his march to Derby ; and his future residence in Ireland was not likely to induce a forgetfulness of the evils and errors of popery . Hence prejudice might have led him , as it did many of his less consistent
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858 Obituary . —Rev . Philip Taylor
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1831, page 858, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2604/page/62/
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