J 805.] Jccount of the late Edward Evanfcn, A.M. All 



a confiderable portion of her time, ftie has afllftant in the church and in the fchool, 

 Jen fpecimens behind her j which, in point which he did from a [irinciple of duty and 

 of correftnefs of delineation, and dexterity gratitude for his uncle's attention to his owa . 

 Ja the management of the fliades, is probably education, although lie had, during that pe- 

 unmatched | in this or any other country, riod, fome oft'ers of preftrinent by whicfi his 

 Among her other qualities, her economy fituation would have been materially benein^- J. 

 was not the leaft cor.lpicuous : for notwith- In the year 1768 he obtained the living of 

 ilanding that the ftipend allowed by the doc- South Mims, near Barnet, and relided in the 

 tor upon the fepar.ition, which took place vicarage-houfe about two years: when, 

 between them, and which was her O'ly in- through the intereft of Mr. Dodd,* M. P. 

 come, was veiy fmall,de contrivad by (he for Reading, with Lord Ciraderi, then Lord 

 rigid exertion of the virtue of economy, Chancellor, he was prefentt-d witli tfie living 

 to live in a very refpeftable ftyle, and occa- of Tewiceihury. In conjunction with tills, 

 lionally to entertain parties of lier friendG, Mr. Evanfur. held the livi/ig of i-o.igdon, a 

 who always quitted her with regret, cheered village in Worceftcrfnire, about five miles 

 with the urbanity of her manners, the viva- diftant from Tewkefljury, for which he ex- 

 city of her conveilation, and the acutenefs of changed tliar of South Mims. Thus refpe'ft- 

 her remarks. It is unfortunate for fociety ably, and, as he thought, happily fetthid, in 

 that circumftances did nut admit of Mrs. F's the office of a Chriftian minilVcr, iie deter- 

 moving in a more eh.vated and therefore mined to apply himlelf with diligence to the 

 more cxtenfive fphere, that the virtues fte impartial iludy of the Scriptures, and to make 

 praSifed being more expofed to general ob- them, and them alone, leaving every other 

 lervation, the fuavity and dignity of manners affiltance, the bafis of his public inftruiffions. 

 with which they were accompanied; could His great learning rcmiered him amply capa- 

 not have failed to acquire m.any converts ble of confulting and explaining the books of 

 to a plan of life, while it tended to refcue the Old and New Tcftament in their original 

 "a becoming degree of economy from the un- languaj^. He had not purfued this modeof 

 merited obliquy, with which it is in general examining the Scriptures very long before he 

 branded, by chofe wlio expeft to profit by a was convinced of the futility and erroneouf- 

 contrary line of conduO, pUced the fupe- nefs of many opinions which he had been ac- 

 riority of a life, devoted to fcientific p^rfuits^ cullomed to regard with re ipeft and reverence. 

 by the chcerfulnefs and happinefs with which He was ftruck with horror even at the doc- 

 it was accompanied, over the unmeaning trine of the Trinity, by vvhich hirnfelf and 

 frivolous amulements to which but too many others had been led to pay a religious worfhip 

 of our females are apt to devote their time, to three perfons, tliot of right belongs to 

 in the moft ihiking point of view. Mrs. F. one God only, the unrivalled Majelty of . 

 has left two daughters to lament her lofs, Heaven and Earth. This was, perhaps, tiie 

 Mary Sophia married to General Bentham, earlieftrcfultofenquiriL-sintothetruthof long- 

 Margaret, unmarried. ■ eftablifhed and generally received dodrines ; 

 [Account of the Life and Wr'ahigi of the late but his aftive mind did not reft here ; he ad- 

 Edivard Evanjon, A. M. — Mr. Evanfon vanced from one ftep to another, till be had 

 was bprnof relpedtable parents, at Warring- dilentangled, as he believed, the pure Chrif- 

 fon, in the county of Lancslhire, April 21, tian fyftem from all the corruptions with 

 1731; but very toon alter this the family left which it had been embarrafled by the ig- 

 the town and county. At feven ye.irs of age norant, the artful, and ■ the interefted. 

 he was taken under the immediate care and Mr. Evanfon was not contented with invef- 

 proteftionof his father's eldeft brother, then, tigating the principles of truth for his own 

 and for more than forty years afterwards, vi- fatisfa£tion, he was, through a long lire, 

 car of Mitcham, in Surrey. From him he eager to difl'eminate them, and to confcr-n, in 

 received his whole fchool education, and made all refpefrs, his own praftice to the undevi- 

 fuch rapid progrefs in his clafiical learning, as ating rule of rciftitude. When, therefore, 

 induced iiis uncle to enter him at Emanuel he |ierceivcd the language of the liturjy in- 

 CoUege, Cambridge, under the tuition of confiftent with that of iiis Bil le, he took the 

 Mr. Hubbard, at the early age of fourteen, liberty of changing fome pb.rafes, and omit- 

 Here he profccuted his ftudies with fo much ting otheis, in the church fervice, which he 

 vigour and fuccefs, that he attained diftin- could not himfflf confcientioufly ufe. ^or 

 guilhed honours when he took the degree of this, and on account of certain truths utter- 

 A. B. Soon after he had taken his degree he ed by hioa in his dil'courles from the pu!pit,_ 

 returned to Mitcham, and became his uncle's and which Were unwelcome to a Imall part ot 

 afliltant in the education of pupils. >n con- tlie congregation, a long and very malevo- 

 nettion with this new employment, he took __———————— - -— 



every opportunity of profecuting his own ftu- * To this gentleman Mr. Ev mf'.n dedicat- 

 dies, and at the ufual period he returned tu ed his firft publication, entitled, " 'I hree 

 Cambridge, and took his fecond degree of Difcouifes : i. Upon the Man alter God's own 

 A.M. At a proper age he was ordained, and Heart. 2. Upon the Faith ot Abraham. 3. 

 Icrvcd the church at Mitcham as curate to Upon tlw bcal of the Foundation ol Cod." 

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