Memoir of the late Joseph Paice Esq / [James Gibson].

  • Gibson, James.
Date:
[1810]
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Credit: Memoir of the late Joseph Paice Esq / [James Gibson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    senters as having been too much of a conformift for his profeffion. I know there are among the diifenters, thofe who think it little lefs than a fin to attend divine worihip at the eflablifhed church ^ and that there are among the members of the eftablifhment, thofe who think it equally culpable to enter a place of worfhip among the diffenters. I prefume not to judge either, nor fhall I be guilty of the equally grofs pre¬ sumption of defending my venerable friend from the effefi of an opinion fo contrafled. In the lead important concerns of life, he did not a£l without previous confideration ; it is certain therefore that in a concern of fo much impor¬ tance as confntency of religious ccftiduflk, he would not depart from his ufual habits ; and having thus brought Mr. Paice’s conduB: to the trial of his own he art, I muft be excufed in faying, that no human being can with propriety appeal a- gainft the verdift. Though our dear friend enjoyed more free- dom from pain, and a greater degree of health than is ufual with perfons in advanced life, he was of courfe fenfible of the advance if not of the inroads of age, and for feveral years had been contracting the fphere of his a£lion ; beginning