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your own case and bosoms . These reflections administer consolation on the removal of an able and faithful advocate for Christian truth and virtue . TJicse exhortations point out * your duty on the mournful event . It is to supply the want of his example and instructions by such measures as a liberal activity and zeal may dictate .
c is not proper to refer to the death of the Rev . Mr . Davis , without paying a tribute of respect and affection to his virtues and memory . Example speaks t © our recollection and our feelings , it instruct and and animates , Vhen they -who displayed it before our eyes ^ are no snore . Our worthy frierid was born at Goyt ! e , near Lampeter , Cardiganshire ,
of pion « air * reputable parents on the 12 > (\ o October , 1756 ^ He received his c ! a »*» ical learning * partly under an Uncle , the Rev . JoshuaThomas , a baptist minister , at Leominster , and partly under Mr . Esquire * at Hereford , hut principally under his brother the Rev . David Davis , of Ca . tle-Howel , Cardiganshire , a gentleman who ? e name as a mieister and an
instructor of youth is well known in the principality and in different parts of England . He went through a course of academical iiucties , at Daventry , in the seminary under the direction of the late Rev . Mr . Robins and the Rev . Mr .
Belsham , successively : for both of whom he always retained the highest veneration . He often spoke with admiration of the impartiality with which the latter was
first promulgation to the present day . This it was observed , affords ground for the character ascribed to it in the text , as the everlasting gospel : " a character 3
i £ was shewn fully justified by the continuance of its existence , by the permanence of its authority and efficacy , and by the perpetuity of its effects , extending into another and eternal world . The illustration of these points led to the folio wing reflections - —Whit a pleasing and sublime prospect have we . to set against the uncertainty and instability of
al I human things 1 That the consolations of this truth are particularly cheering under th < : circumstances that appear unfavourable to the interests of truth and piety . N . B . At the end of this head of application , was introduced the memoir # nd the address connected with it . An Exhortation co adhere % o the faith and ^ practice of the £ WjpeJ ; concluded the 4 U 6 COUT&G .
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accustomed to state the arguments prt and con , in his lectures on contro * versial subjects . It was a proof of the opinion entertained by his tutors of his abilities apd acquirements , that at the expiration of his academical course , they strongly recommended him to be chosen classical and mathematical tutor for the
Presbyterian academy at Caermardien , then under the direction of the Rev . Rob . Gentkman . Mr . Davis , from that natural modesty and diffidence for which he . was always remarkable , hesitated for some time on accepting a situation which
he considered as of great importance . When , at the importunityof Mr . Belsham and other intelligent friends , he entered upon it , he discharged the duties of it with credit to himself and advantage to the students , who always spoke of him in the highest terms of respect and
affection . < c He continued in this post , till the seminary was removed to Swansea . After this he resided some short time at Carnarvon ; from whence he went to Liverpool , to fill the post of private tutor , in the family of the ftev . Mr . Yates . Hi 9 neat settlement was in the capacity of the minister at Walsall . After 1
short stay there he- was invited to be the pastor of this congregation , about the year 1 790 , or 1791 . This character he sustained here about twenty years , c < I had but a slight acquaintance with the good man , in whose place I now stand , but it is with great pleasure , that on a testimony , the candour ana veracity of which is not to be doubted , I am
authorised to describe him , as a man whose understanding was strong ; whose taste was truly correct ; whose dispositions were most amiable , and whose conduct towards all men was upright and benevslent . The principal traits of his character were extensive and warm
benevd-Jeiice , an inoifensivencss of conduct , a readiness at all times , and to the best of his power , to befriend tke afflicted ; candour , mildness of temper , and a meekness seldom surpassed . He waa diffident , almost to an extreme , contented in every situation , never complaining , alwayi
happily disposed under every adverse circumstance , to give a favourable turn , under a firm and lively conviction of the benevolence and wisdom of God : the benevolence and mercy © f God were often the subjects , of his conversation , and the great source ? of hi * hope , during his last illness .
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25 f Obituary * -Uett . B . Davis .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1811, page 252, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2415/page/60/
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