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Obituary.
OBITUARY .
LATELY , at Clapham , Surrey , in his 73 d year , the Rev . Henry Venn , M . A . well known as the author of ' The Complete Duty of Man , ' and other religious publications . He was descended from ancestors who were clergymen , in a direct lirievfrom the time ofthe Reformation . _ The
sufferings of one of them , on account of his loyal attachment to the king during the civil wars , are particularly recorded in Walker's ' Sufferings of the Clergy . ' His father was rector of St . Antholin ' s , in London , a person of some note in his day , as a preacher , a man of learning , and a zealous friend to the church ,
in the cause of which he suffered much obloquy from the opposition , which , in conjunction with Bp . Gibson , he made to Dr . Bundle ' s advancement to a bishoprick , on account of a conversation in which the doctor had expressed sentiments of a deistical tendency respecting one of the principal histories of the . pid Testament . After his death , which took place in 1740 , a volume of his sermons and tracts was published
by his widow , the daughter of Mr . Ashton , who was executed for his adherence to the Jacobite cause , being detected in a plot with Lord Preston and others . Mr . Henry Venn was born at Barnes , in 1725 , and received his education partly under Dr . Pitman , at Market street , and partly under Mr .
Catcott , of Bristol ,- the author of an Hutchinsonian treatise on the Deluge . In 1742 lie was admitted of Jesus-col--lege , and proceeded to the degree of B . A . in 1745 and to that of M . A . in 1749 . There being no vacancy of a fellowship in his own college , the fellows of Queen ' s unanimously elected
him to one in their society ; of which lie continued a fellow till his marriage , 1757 , to a daughter of Dr . Bishop , of Ipswich , author of eight sermons preached at Lady Mover's lecture , in 1724 , and long celebrated at Cambridge for an excellent act which he kept for his doctor's degree . Dr . Bishop's memory was so retentive , that , after walking with a friend from Temple-bar to St . Paul's , he repeated to him , in their
exact order , the names of all the signs which then hung over almost every house . When Mr . V . married , he was settled at Clapham , in Surrey , to the curacy of which place he had been elected by the inhabitants . Here he contracted an intimate friendship with two characters of uncommon worth
, the late John Thornton , Esq . of that place , and Sir John Barnard , memoirs of whose life he afterwards published . In gratitude to the gentlemen of Clapham , from whom he had received many favours , and by whom he was highly respected , he published and dedicated to them a volume of sermons upon his
resigning the curacy of that parish , in 17 59 , upon his promotion to the vicarage of Huddersfield , in Yorkshire . In the very populous place in which he was now settled he laboured with unwearied assiduity , being constant , in season and out of season , in doing good to the souls committed to his charge and his memory will long be cherished with affection and veneration in that parish . His zeal , however , carried
him beyond his strength . By his earnest and frequent preaching he had , in ten years , materially injured his constitution ; and brought on a cough and spitting of blood , which rendered him incapable of officiating any longer in so extensive a sphere , He therefore accepted , in 1770 , the rectory of-Yelling ,
in Huntingdonshire , a Crown living , which was offered to him by ihe Lord Chief Baron Smythe , a friend of his , then one of the commissioners of the great seal . While he remained at Huddersfield he published ' The Complete Duty of Man' ( a book which has gone through seven large editions , including
those printed in America and Ireland ) , and ' An Essay on the Prophecies of Zacharias , ' besides several single sermons . He continued residing at Yelling till -December last , when his increasing infirmities compelled him to remo > e to Clapham , where the tender assiduities of hit children , and of numerous friends who loved him with extreme affection , contributed to sooth the languor of sickness and age .
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Obituary.
OBITUARY .
LATELY , at Clapham , Surrey , in his 73 d year , the Rev . Henry Venn , M . A . well known as the author of ' The Complete Duty of Man , ' and other religious publications . He was descended from ancestors who were clergymen , in a direct lirievfrom the time ofthe Reformation . _ The
sufferings of one of them , on account of his loyal attachment to the king during the civil wars , are particularly recorded in Walker's ' Sufferings of the Clergy . ' His father was rector of St . Antholin ' s , in London , a person of some note in his day , as a preacher , a man of learning , and a zealous friend to the church ,
in the cause of which he suffered much obloquy from the opposition , which , in conjunction with Bp . Gibson , he made to Dr . Bundle ' s advancement to a bishoprick , on account of a conversation in which the doctor had expressed sentiments of a deistical tendency respecting one of the principal histories of the . pid Testament . After his death , which took place in 1740 , a volume of his sermons and tracts was published
by his widow , the daughter of Mr . Ashton , who was executed for his adherence to the Jacobite cause , being detected in a plot with Lord Preston and others . Mr . Henry Venn was born at Barnes , in 1725 , and received his education partly under Dr . Pitman , at Market street , and partly under Mr .
Catcott , of Bristol ,- the author of an Hutchinsonian treatise on the Deluge . In 1742 lie was admitted of Jesus-col--lege , and proceeded to the degree of B . A . in 1745 and to that of M . A . in 1749 . There being no vacancy of a fellowship in his own college , the fellows of Queen ' s unanimously elected
him to one in their society ; of which lie continued a fellow till his marriage , 1757 , to a daughter of Dr . Bishop , of Ipswich , author of eight sermons preached at Lady Mover's lecture , in 1724 , and long celebrated at Cambridge for an excellent act which he kept for his doctor's degree . Dr . Bishop's memory was so retentive , that , after walking with a friend from Temple-bar to St . Paul's , he repeated to him , in their
exact order , the names of all the signs which then hung over almost every house . When Mr . V . married , he was settled at Clapham , in Surrey , to the curacy of which place he had been elected by the inhabitants . Here he contracted an intimate friendship with two characters of uncommon worth
, the late John Thornton , Esq . of that place , and Sir John Barnard , memoirs of whose life he afterwards published . In gratitude to the gentlemen of Clapham , from whom he had received many favours , and by whom he was highly respected , he published and dedicated to them a volume of sermons upon his
resigning the curacy of that parish , in 17 59 , upon his promotion to the vicarage of Huddersfield , in Yorkshire . In the very populous place in which he was now settled he laboured with unwearied assiduity , being constant , in season and out of season , in doing good to the souls committed to his charge and his memory will long be cherished with affection and veneration in that parish . His zeal , however , carried
him beyond his strength . By his earnest and frequent preaching he had , in ten years , materially injured his constitution ; and brought on a cough and spitting of blood , which rendered him incapable of officiating any longer in so extensive a sphere , He therefore accepted , in 1770 , the rectory of-Yelling ,
in Huntingdonshire , a Crown living , which was offered to him by ihe Lord Chief Baron Smythe , a friend of his , then one of the commissioners of the great seal . While he remained at Huddersfield he published ' The Complete Duty of Man' ( a book which has gone through seven large editions , including
those printed in America and Ireland ) , and ' An Essay on the Prophecies of Zacharias , ' besides several single sermons . He continued residing at Yelling till -December last , when his increasing infirmities compelled him to remo > e to Clapham , where the tender assiduities of hit children , and of numerous friends who loved him with extreme affection , contributed to sooth the languor of sickness and age .