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whom / he was chosen successor , a $ minister at Prince ' s-street , West > minster . Jn 1808 , he quitted the metropolis , on receiving an unanimous invitation to succeed his friend , the Rev . William Wood , as pastor of-the Unitarian Congregation at Mill Hill Chapel , Leeds . He
resigned his connexion with tills society in 1 , 81 * 8 , and never afterwards engaged in any stated ministerial duties : although he continued occasionally for several years to assist his friends , in the services of the pulpit . He preserved to the last , in a very ^ remarkable degree , the vigour , activity , and- cheerfulness of / . his mind , with few and slight interruptkyns to his bodily health .
He manned Prances Mary , daughter of the late Rev . Dr , Disney , of the Hyde , in JEssex , his intimate friend , and near whom his remains now repose jh the- adjacent church yard ' or" Fryerning . , Mr ; Jervi ^ was himself , -so peculiarly happy in delineating the ; characters of his deceased friends , as is
testified by his numerous " contributions to the Gentleman ' s Magazine and the Monthly Repository , and his funeral ' sermons , that the writer of this article is especially anxious , in a few words , to do similar justice to the distinguishing features of his own ; a task which he laments has not , for a mournful reason , fallen to the lot or some of- hisl contemporary and chosen associates .
Notwithstanding the habitual tranquillity of his mind , Mr . Jervis ' s-at- » tachment to the cause of civil-and religious freqdom was ardent as well as unshaken , and his devotional feelings were of the nlost animated description , as appears from the hymns he contributed to the collection which
bears his n-ame in conjunction with those of his friends Kippis , Rees , and Morgan . It is probable this article will meet the eye of many in the north , the south , and the west of England , who will bear the tribute pf & sigh to the warmth , the since-
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rity , the fidelity of his frjeri ^ tip ? . tjis affectionate attention tp . the instruction of the ppqr is warmly testified by members of his eongrega . tion at Leeds , while his discourses were remarkably calculated to in-Merest and impress the higher classes , as coming / rom one who carried a " pure-and ~ high ~ tone-o ^ mor-ality _ in . to the social circle of the cultivated and
polite , and rendered virtue attractive by-the charms of mildness and" urbanity . With him , to use an expression of his own , ' courtesy was the law of social life . ' By example , as well as precept , he recommended arid illustrated * the Moral Beauty of Virtue . ' ( Sermons 15 and 17 in his printed volume . ) Let not the silent , never interrupted services which such a character performs for society be underrated .
His printed discourses possess a general correctness , an even and Sustained excellence , together- with an application , sometimes remarkably felicitous ,. of the £ fpres whic ~ b tt elassical education furnishes , which well adapt them to excite the attention of the cultivated classes of the
community . While their appeals to the common feelings of our nature , and the absence , of all disguise of the religious sentiments of the author , ( without however entering into controversial discussions , ) relieve them from the imputation of preaching to thfe rich another gospel ^ than that which will consoleT the griefs , ; and restrain the vice ? of the poor to the end of time .
It is remarkable that his publications contain no indications of that change of sentiment which Mr , Belsham and others of his contemporaries underwent , and -which is observable'in their writings . In Mr . Belsham ' s Charge delivered at the
ordination , of the Rev . f ^ mothy iienrick at Exeter , Mn 1785 , there are strong tracVs of orthodox senti * ment ; e , ^ . * You remember , sir * that the greajfc Bon of God himself , wheu iw hk incarnate form h $ con *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1833, page 318, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2623/page/30/
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