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he & }> ouW preach on tJae following ^ i ^ d ^ y . Ekang thus called fo ^ th , lie deliyered Jiimself with the frankness , and freedom becoBiiag his character . -Be laid / before his congregation his > views of Christian truth without
disguise or reserve , and openly avowed h > $ sbetief ia Unitaxianism . This ope $ avowal displeased some of his hearer ^ , < and when the term of his probationary preaching was ended , a strong effort was made to prevent' his election . Such however was the excellence of
t bijs character , his unaffected piety and the plain and scriptural style of hie preaching , that all the most respectable part of his Jieai ^ ers concurred in inviting him to be their settled pastor , lie was ordained in July 1813 , by Mr . Philpot , Mr . Wright and Mr .
Gjlchrist , on which occasion the charge delivered by the latter gentleman was characterized by a clergyman of the Establishment here , as one of the most juast-erjy productions he had ever heard- About this time the Eastern Uni ^ rian Society was forme d , and at
the request < r £ the Committee , Mr . Winder undertook several missionary journeys , and entered warmly into any jpJau , > by twhiQh the ^ interest of true rreligipn might be served His thirst vfor rkiiawJedge continued unabated ; his application was intense ; he was
• willing- to encounter a ^ iy mental labour to . acquire , -anfi ajxy b # dil < y labour to prppagate Christian truth . , When at home ,, he co ^ tld scarcely be persuaded to take sufficient exercise to keep up his bodily health , a » d the decline whieji , previous tAhis Jea , vuig Norwich
took plage in , his . constitution , is much ; to be ^ attributed vto < his cJase application . Jn the courseof his journeys he had visited . Wjsbeaoh ; and the Baptist coi ^ gregatipn there , in . consequence of Mr . Wright ' s constant -missionary eng ^ geni epts , were without any settled
pastor- Mr . > Wiad ^ r < was applied to , to suc ^ ieed IVf r . Wright , but he hesitated « 0 nie time before ; he accepted an invitation $ b flattering , a « d ( in a pecuniary point , of view ) so aid vantagcous to ^ ijn , |^ u ^ ged to me his great uuwilliqgu ^ s to , Jeave his people at Norfais
. wich ,. tiisf ^ ai ^ lfst removal should he the jj ^^ ns of imjjuring the cause of twth ^« ong / them , and h ^ s doubts < vvh ^ er , his a , bilitte » , werei c ^ ual to the > rtu ^^ titW ^ ic | i . fee ^^ s juavited to & \ h W ^ th ^ jsome difficul ty I persuaded h * m that it was better » for . Jiirii , and better
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for the cause of truth , that he shoujjl r ^ moye f to a sphere of greater usefu ^ - ixess , than continue among a peoplp Jiere who . really ( with a few exceptions ) w ^ e ce xxo t worthy of him , axid from whom he derived an income of
jbarrely 50 / . a year . When he toojc leave of Norwich , in August IS \ 6 , Ji saw him no , more , btttJiis letters hav ^ e uniformly expressed gratitude ,, thankfulness and regard to his friends at Wi&beach . Such r Sir , are some of the circumstances in the life of my deceased friend which fell under mv
observation . When it is considered that ip . the early part of his life ^ he was a common soldier , that until he was thirty years of a , ge he was unable even to readj and that he was shut out from all the means of improvement , which are . common even to most persons ' j | i the lower walks of life , and placed in , a situation the most unfavourable to
the cultivation of knowledge , or the growth of piety—and that the goodness of his heart and the native strength of his understanding enabled him to surmount all the difficulties which surrounded him , and to rise to a high degree of usefulness as a preacher , w , e
must regard him as an ejctw > rdijwyr and , truly excellent man . He occasionally preached while he was in the army ; during which time , and indeed after ( he left it , he was income dejgree , corrected with the , Wesley an Methpdists , and raised a society in that
interest at Bordsey , near WoodbrijJge ; but he ajways refused to become a regular preacher in tjie connexion , as a subscription to John Wesley ' s creqd was necessary : for although he-. bad not then departed piuchfrom Wesley > opinions , he . always refqsed ( tp use an expression of his own ) ' to make 7
him a Pope . ' Bjy his death , the cause of divj ^ e , trwth has lost a valuable and intrepid advocate ; for although the defects in his public delivery , arising from tlje want of early education , prevented him from becoming a strictly correct speaker , yet there was a clearness iri his mode of treating a subject , , a
strength of language , an earnestness ^ ad seriousness of manner , which powerfully arrested the . attention , ^ a possessed great f facility jn the recioJlection , ajvd ju 4 g ^ ue « t in the use pf Scriptwre langM ^ . The modest y ^ . biuiulity . of ^ is depprtm eut wer e
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Obitmjy . * T ~ Mr . H . WiM *? . 4 # J
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1817, page 491, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2467/page/43/
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