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      Jbfr . Henry PVood . Monday , June 6 th , who didample justice to his character , to a prodigious ton course of people . On the Sunday following-, Mr . M . minister of a large congregation of

      Caltinistical Methodists , in Hull , exhibited a singular specimen of ignorance , bigotry and malignity , by preaching a sermon with the express purpose of proving , from the circumstances of his death , that poor Bradford could not belong to - the number , of the elect , and must be miserable in the invisible state .

      Attempting to give an account of the reasons , if reasons they could be called , by 'which such a horrid position was supported , would be a waste of time , and a severe exercise of the reader ' s patience . W . S .

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      Died on the 16 th of July , 1808 , at Stoneham near JLewes , Sussex , Mr . HENRY WOOD , Farmer . He was a very corpulent man , and it is supposed that this gave rise to the disorder which carried him off the stage of this life , viz . an inflammation , which terminated in a mortification of the bowels . Mr .

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      4 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS IN FOItMER OBITUARIES .

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      REV . W . WOOD , ( p . aai , 135 and 280 . )—In 178 Z , he concurred with many of his brethren , at one of their stated public meetings , in recommending to the divine blessing their young friend , the Rev . W . Turner , Jun . previous to his settlement at Newcastle-upon-Tyne . In the service of the day , which was

      published , Mr . Wood ' s ordination prayer is inserted , and has been much admired . About four years ago , he printed a number of forms of prayer for public "Worship , which have been since used in the morning service at Mill-hill . Of

      these forms of prayer there is a very respectful mention made , and a very high character given of their author by Mr . "Wyvill , in the 6 th volume of his Political Papers , which contains three or four of Mr . Wood ' s . Letters .

      The address delivered by Mr . Wood mn the 19 th of January last , in the Rocunda , adjoining the Cloth-hal ) , Leeds ,

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      J ?^ . W . JVc od . Wood had beeri a member of the Unitarian General Baptist Church at JLewes for several years . He was a constant attendant on public worship ,

      and a firm friend and supporter of ra *» tional religion . Two years ago he became a " member cf the Southern Unitarian Book Society , when the annual meeting of the society was field at Lewes . He met the members of the

      society la ~ t year at Horsham , and fully intended to be with them this year at Ditchling : but finding himself a little indisposed for two or three days previous to the meeting , he concluded not to leave home . He did not appear alarmingly ill until a day or two before his death . He was interred on the iQth .

      in the burying ground belonging to the Unitarian General Baptist Society , and a funeral sermon was preached upon the occasion by Mr . Snelgrove , minister of the place , to a crowded audience , from Psalm xc . ia . " So teach us to

      number our days , that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom . " - The hearers were very attentive . Affection and esteem were visible upon the countenances of all present . He lived respected , and he died lamented . A . B .

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      on the subject of a Petition for Peace , ( see Mrs . Cappe ' s Memoir , p . 23 a and Obituary , p . 280 , ) was to the following effect : " Gentlemen in the present state of my health , I cannot with prudence , expose myself to the open air in the Cloth-hall yard . But I should feel

      myself wanting in my duty to you , to my countrymen and to mankind , if I did not come forwaid as a man , as a Christian , and as a minister of religion , to express my hearty concurrence with you in the prayer of the intended petition , a draught of which I have read , and of

      the resolutions which are to be proposed at the public meeting , which also I have seen . It is my firm conviction th ^ t it the measures which you are now pur * suing , had been taken in the time of the late ministry , and before the death of the ever to be lamented Mr . Fox > you would at this time have enjoyed the

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      Additions affikttorrectians in former Obituaries . n S 3 T

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1808, page 397, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2394/page/45/