the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians

‘ [65] and shall we alone be swallowed up in sorrow? Rather let us comfort one another with these words, and ascend after them in holy desires to be in the same state and place.’

In the Preface there is an affecting reference to the hard and injurious treatment under which he was at that time labouring. After adverting to the delay which had taken place in the publication of this sermon, ‘I must own,’ he proceeds,

that I had probably done it sooner, had I not been diverted by many troubles; the issue of which has been such as has not only given me more leisure to review this sermon, but also more occasion often to retire to a serious contemplation of the matters therein contained. What my sufferings (for a principle of conscience) have been, or for what cause I suffered as an evil-doer even unto bonds, I intend not here to complain. It suffices me to leave my complaint with God, whom I desire to serve according to my best understanding; and if I may but please Him, the judge and giver of the prize, I shall be less anxious for the applause of spectators, who must themselves be judged also.

But as to that dispensation of Providence which occasioned this discourse, I do therein, with great reverence and satisfaction, adore the righteous wisdom of the Supreme Lord of life and death, by whose appointment, according to the Prophet's observation (Isaiah LVII. 1), righteous and merciful men are taken away from the evil to come. For, considering what was in the womb of Providence, and so near to its birth, I cannot but reckon it an apparent design of mercy to her who is deceased, that she should be carried into