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    15 th April . Suddenly , of a fit of ^ : Tp ^ ptexy 7 ~ Mr 7 iTa ^ rR ^ iintree , in ~ ThlF ~ 65 th year of his age , highly esteemed by all who knew him , and deeply lamented by a mourning widow and family . He worshipped the Father in spirit and in truth ; and always showed himself an active , upright , and -zealous member of the little Christian Society at Welburn .

    J . 13 . Q . Man . Coll . York , 8 th June , 1833 , May 28 , 18 § 3 , Afte r a short illness , $ tr . John "M arjoffl , Ir * the £ § th year of his age . The name of the venerable and regretted subject of this article has been long familiar to a large pprtipn

    of the religijous-public , in qoAnexion with the Unitarian doctrine , pf which he was a strerjupus , ahle $ nd unswerving advocate , through the vicis situdes of-a long life , an $ in the earlier part of it , at a time when IJnitarianism was little Renown and . still je $ s openly prpfessed ; when its , avovval affixed a stigma , which neither ta ^

    lents nqr virtues , npr even a strict adherence to the other fettled pQUits of orthodoxy cotj \ d remove . \ n his case it \ yas fojlowe ^ by , 4 s ^ par ^ ti ^ n fvorn the religious , society pf whi t e } i he was , a member , and t \\ e ' . joss ' of countenance and support frpm , o , ther § , who thought highly pf hi ? ^ . bilit ^ s , and were zealous in bringing them , forward .

    . ftutjh ^ se . , di § cp . ur , ageniewts , Jq _ 4 id- ' dition to thei pressure of narrow circumstances ? had no povyey Qver a mind thoroughly } n earne ^ ti or the subject of religion as a pei'sipna , ! cpncern , and fully made up pn the great point which fp ^ naed the sole grpund of exclusion . In , fact , ^ l }; ho » igh educated to the . ^ el ^ ef , h

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    nized the doctrine of a trinity of persons in , the Godhead , He found it not in the Bible , nor any where else . The conception had no place in his mind . To him ifc appeared a strange invention , an absolute contradiction , which no one does or can believe ,

    thpugh many sincerely and conscien-^ jpjLls l \ L ^ tHnkJh . e ^ do .-- »^ t ^ the-saEie time he considered it a dangerous error , and contrary to the whole tenor of both the Jewish and Christian scriptures ,. After the separation alluded to , which cut off the hopes he might have entertained of extensive religious usefulness , and clouded his worldly prospects , though it could

    not quench the ardour of his spirit , pr shake its firmness , he became the centr 6 of a sjmll circle of asspciated friends , implicated with him in the charge of heresy , and united as a Christian church with him as their pastor . This connexion lasted many years , as did also the harmony and friendship of the indiyiduals whp * cpmpQsed it .

    A mind thus prepared by the exercise of its own judgment in the study of the Scriptures , was led , by a natural and usual process ,, ' (• though after a considerable interval , during which he experienced much mental

    suffering , ) to examine and reject other ¦ p opular errors . BOs spirit became gradually freed from the fetters which Jaci enslaved an ( l depressed it , and jje advanced by a prpgressiye course to those liberal views which appeared to him deducible frpm the divine

    pra ^ cles ^ uncpntarninated by human n ^ jx |; ure pr addition . In the prpsecutipn pf his , inquiries , he did npt hesitate to acknowledge any change of p , piwiontp which . they conducted . him : pf > vhic : h one pr rnpre instances ma , y be found in the Monthly Repository , tp which , at varipus tim ^ s he cpntribwted .

    Among his separate publications , his treatise pn ' The Impersonality pf the HpIv Ghost , ' holds a prpminent place , This work p&sped thrQugh

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    Afc separating , aftei ! the , evening service , many parties pi visitQrs were heard in effect to ¦ , say , tl | is pleading day will lpijg Ijvein our re (? oUectipn .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1833, page 251, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2619/page/27/