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      Sir * London , June £ , 1819 . AS you hav 6 Often solicited inforniation respecting deceased Dissenting ministers , I take the liberty of sending you some lines which I

      copied from a tall , handsome gravestone , standing about the middle of the burial-ground belonging to the Parish Church of Kidderminster , in the county of Worcester , It raus thus :

      M . S . Thorn ® Hornblower , V . D . M . Qui , a prim is aunis , Deo dicatus , et in saeris diii operatus , Munus doctrina , precibus et vita sanctum ornavit :

      Solatium dare , consilio juvare Cuiqwe dimensum prebeie , calluit , Ad omnia pietatis mania parattis Cum summa huinanitate , tam mirk comitate itubutus . Qua filius , frater , conjux , auric u $ , Et pastor simiil ecclesise , Multuni inclaruit . In hoc oppido natus Maii 19 , 1715 . Birminghamiai defunctus Sept . 29 , 1766 .

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      Closely adjoining this stone , is another which is very low , and only large enough to contain the following very simple inscription : u To the memory of Mary , the wife of Joseph Green , and daughter of John and Hannah Hornblower ; she died on the 19 th ef March , 1744 , aged 29 years . Believe me , friend .

      A virtuous life stands more in stead , Tbau long- enlogiums when we're dead /* It is observable , that Mary Green died more than twenty years before the minister ; it would , therefore , be curious to ascertain whether the small

      stone was set up soon after her death , in which case , the sentiment it bears must have been purely accidental ; or whether it w $ s not placed there after the death of her reverend relative , and intended as a sarcastic reflection

      upon the person who composed the Latin epitaph , or upon those who had spent their money in erecting" a stone of so unusual a size . If this communication should meet the eye of any Very old member of

      either of the Dissenting congregations at Kidderminster , or that of either of their present ministers , he may , perhaps , be able to explain the circumstance . It would , however , be Well « some person , who feel $ pleasure in

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      cherishing the memory of the Hornblowers , a family that was for many years ara ornament of that town , aiid useful to the neighbourhood , would employ a workman to raise up the

      small stone above-mentioned , and redraw the letters upon it ; as I perceived on visiting Kidderminster a short time ago , that this said little stone is now sunk so far into the ground , that the last line of the inscription is become quite illegible . S . P .

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      Inscription on the Tombstone of Mr . Thomas Hornblower * 867

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      Sir , Liverpool , May 8 , 1819 . IN the Twelfth Volume [ p . £ 88 ] of the Monthly Repository are inserted Dr . Carpenter ' s Remarks on Dr . Stock ' s Letter , which contained an account of his conversion . In the

      same volume ( p . 665 ) is also a letter from me , in which I attempted to shew that Dr . C . was apparently inconsistent in reprobating Dr . S . ' s conviction , that the change in his opinions had been produced " under the special guidance of divine illumination . " when at the same time he

      expressed his own belief , * ' that the Father of our spirits does afford did to his frail children , in ways which philosophy cannot yet explainf to strengthen , to console and to guide ;' and , not perceiving any difference in the nature of these divine influences , I expressed a strong wish that Dr . C * would make this matter more

      intelligible . In the last volume ( p . £ 8 , ) of the Repository , Dr . C . notices my observations in the following manlier : !—" I hope I shall find an hour of leisure

      ere long to reply to the friendly pbjections of JL . J . J ., in your last Number , ( p . 6 @ 5 ) . I suspect he does not understand me , and 1 shall be glad to embody my ideas on this very difficult subject . ' *

      I feel Extremely impatient to receive my friend ' s elucidation of this confessedly very difficult subject , not only because 1 hope it will explain the difference between his own ideas and those of my friend Dr . Stock , respecting Divine communications ,

      but because it will enable me to perceive ^ what is meant by similar language often used by Unitarian Chris * tians ; for example , by Unitarian ministers , when they pray that their

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1819, page 367, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1773/page/23/