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    of bis own temper , as it was a testimony of merit in his wife , that he often declared , after an union of many years , that he had never seen any fault in her . He had ,, indeed , a soul formed for

    friendship and for domestic life . He died in November , 1767 » leaving a widow , three sons and two daughters , several years , it is supposed , short of fifty . His Biographer , who cherishes tbememory

    of his name , with high esteem and tender regret , then removed to Taunton , preached his Funeral Sermon to a crouded audience , from John xi . 11 , * Our friend , Lazarus , sleepeth - ' '

    Mr . floare was short in stature ; deformed in person , of prominent features , his eyes piercing and his ^ teptct commanding respect * In a letter , written in the month , of June before his death , he

    expressed himself as apprehensive of bis approaching end . For , after mentioning the state of his health , he added ; u as my constitution is yery tender , and I find my strength very sensibly to decay , I cannot expect to live yery long in this world : and I wish this belief

    may engage me , in good earnest , to prepare for making an happy retreat out of it . '

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    LETTER I . To Mrs . ikf . ZX Cherney ^ at the Ban . George Speke ' s , Esq . at A 6 h near Axmin&ter . Maj > am , J had promised myself the plea .

    sure af vaifciijg on y ° u in person . with this book . ; ( for the perusal , pf which I return you my hearty thanks -. ) but a , ffi told ^ h at my l afe . eo ^ du ^ with regard % o floaters

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    of religion , has unhappily exposed me to Lady Drake ' s displeasured ; a consequence this , which I could not have expected , and for which I am tally saisfied I have given no just cause in my making a proper use of that liberty , with which Almighty God has endowed me and all his reasonable crea- ^

    tures . For nothing can be more evident , from the faculties of the human mind , without the assistance of revelation ; ' than that the Supreme Being ,, infinitely wise and benevolent , designed us for more noble ends and purposes ,

    than just to spend a few fleeting years in this imperfect state , asd then relSirn to our primitive nothing . But revelation fuliy assures us * that the principal end of our munificent Creator in sending us

    into this world , was , to train us up for immortality : and by the due exercise of our virtues , to render us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in

    light , in order to which lie has endued us with powers and -capacities , which have a direct ten . dency and fitness to answer this grand and ultimate end of our creation . —rlt must , therefore , be the indispensable duty of all rational creatures , to employ those talents

    of reason and understanding , ( which are the distinguishing ornaments of human nature , ) in searching out the divine will , and when discovered , in closely adhering thereto , in the practice of ell those neces - sary { duties , which we are thereby convinced are incumbent onus :

    these duties , I apprehend , we are entirely to learn from the holy scriptures ; which to ius Protestants is the alone test * whereby to <> try v any doctrine or ; opinion wbfkttaeyer 2 and &ai itr either

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    S 1 * Letters of Mt * . Bartholomew Hoare * — Letter I .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1812, page 212, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1747/page/4/