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author in London, which the daughter now living remembers. But we could hear nothing of any. presents that this rival made our author in his! trying circumstances. It is moft likely he knew! the worth of the eftate, though his brother made fo light of it when it flood in competition with Chrift and confcience.

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She informed us, that, foon after his father and friends had caft him off, that he much wanted to borrow a book that was in his father's library, but knowing that he could not get the loan of it him felf, he got a friend to borrow it as for his own ufe. His father lent it to our author's friend, but fufpecting it was for his fon, wrote this text on the blank fheet: The wicked borroweth and payeth not again. When our author had read it, he returned it, having written the laft claufe of his fa ther's text on the fame blank fheet: But the righteous fbewerb mercy and giveth. Pfal. xxxvii. 21. Hinting that if he had been the righteous man he pretended to be, he would have given it to his fon, and then there had been no fear of his acting the wicked man's part, in not paying again.

From Croydon our author returned to London, in the times of perfecution, and went and dwelt in the Mint, in what was then called The Verge of the Court, which was a place of fafety. In that place he hired a large room, for a lecture on the Lord's day evening, which coft him forty or fifty

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pounds to fit up, in which he preached a confiderable time. His wife took a fhop in the : Borough, and carried on the business of linendrapery. When he left The Verge of the Court, he went to a meeting-houfe in Globe Alley, but whether he was paftor, or an affiftant, I could not learn; but the last times of his preaching were för one Mr. Kenninghorne, or Kenninghall.His wife having many loffes in trade, gave it up, and learnt the bufinefs of mantua-making, and continued it for many years.

The many afflictions that our author met with in his youth, and thofe that attended him in his ministry, brought on an afthma, the ftone,: and the gout, which rendered him incapable of the minifterial work for twenty years before his: death, during which time his wife, and daughter now living, worked in order to fupport him. The never-failing providence of God, of which he fo fweetly treats, followed him to the laft, which occafioned him often to fay, when any prefent: came in a time of need, "here is God's basket: come again," meaning the hand-basket portion. When he was first laid aside from the miniftry, he was under much darkness and dejection of mind; but, after some time, came to enjoy great confolations, and endured his afflictions with remarkable patience and cheerfulness; and a little before his death faid, "I am nearer my home than ever; I am

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foon going." His laft wife was a very affectionate one, a good nurse to him, and was very fond of him, infomuch that she was quite inconfolable at his death. The daughter fays fhe would fit weeping by his corps till two or three o'clock in the morning, and then come fighing to bed to her. She informed me that he was buried in the diffenters' burying ground, in Dead Man's Place, adjoining to Mr. Thrale's brewhoufe, in the Borough, and had a head and foot ftone at his grave. I went with a friend to fee if I could find it, and on the north fide of the ground I found a foot stone, with J. B. on it, but the head ftone was funk fo deep in the ground that only the first line appeared; but digging down about fixteeen inches, I found the following infcription:

"Here lieth the body of the Rev. James Barry, who departed this life the 3d of July 1719, aged 78 years." The ftones discovered the affection, and the smallness of them the poverty, of the difconfolate widow.

He was three times married, and had twentytwo or twenty-three children. One fon was fettled in Charles Town, South Carolina, and several at Croydon in Surrey, where there is living at this time feveral defcendants and grandchildren. Mr. Jafper Wood, baker, is one of them. He was a man of about the middle ftature, of a light complexion, very quick and fharp, and, when able to move, very active.

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He wrote the following Books.

ELECTION BEFORE TIME.

TWO SERMONS ON THE APPLE-TREE, from this text, As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, fa is my beloved among the fons. I fat down under bis fhadow with great delight, and his fruit was fweet to my tafte. Song, ii. 3.

THE SPIRIT OF PRAYER.

THE FALSENESS AND UNSCRIPTURALNESS OF ANABAPTISM.

A CORDIAL FOR SIN-DESPAIRING SOULS, which I revised.

The books were printed by Mr. Marshall in Newgate-street; but none of his works have fell into my hands but the laft mentioned. When he had finished the book which he ftiled The Spirit of Prayer, he fold the copy to the Printer, and tily charged him not to alter the title, or the work; but the publisher fent it out with this titleA Help to Prayer. I cannot learn that Dr. Calamy, or any other writer of the Hiftory of the Puritans, take any notice of him, which is eafily accounted for, God having ftript him of all confidence in

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the flesh, and wiped him out of the cathedral, his teftimony could never gain him any credit among the tories, papifts, or rotten arminians, whose craft is always in danger from fuch witneffes; therefore, when they become hiftorians, they are fure to bury the names of fuch men, and their testimonies, in filence, left the devil's intereft should fall to the ground.

Should any of the other books fall into my hands, they fhall appear in the world again, if God permit.

Reader, farewell,

While I remain,

Your's, in the gospel of Christ,

WILLIAM HUNTINGTON,

T. BENSLEY, Printer, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London.

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