THE METHODIST MAGAZINE, FOR 1807: BEING A CONTINUATION OF THE ARMINIAN MAGAZINE, FIRST PUBLISHED BY THE REV. JOHN WESLEY, A. VOLUME XXX. Or, the FOURTH VOLUME of the NEW SERIES LONDON: Printed at the Conference-Office, North-Green, Worship-Street, Finsbury-Square z Sold by ROBERT LOMAS, at the Book-Room, near the New-Chapel, City-Road. THE METHODIST MAGAZINE, For JANUARY, 1807. BIOGRAPHY. An Account of Mr. THOMAS SYMONS. To the EDITOR of the METHODIST MAGAZINE. Dear Sir, SI was particularly acquainted with our lately deceased venerable friend, Mr. Thomas Symons, and frequently attended him during his last illness, I think it my duty to prefent you, and your numerous Readers, with a few memorials of his life, lengthened out beyond the common bounds of the age of man: A life, which, though not spent in a very confpicuous fituation in Civil or Religious Society, was, nevertheless, fteady, uniform, and confiftent, and afforded no mean proofs of that power of Divine Grace, by which the heart is foftened, and rendered fufceptible of the impreffions of the Holy Spirit, and confequently evidences that meeknefs, gentleness, long-fuffering, and benevolence, which characterize the mind that was in Jefus. ADAM CLARKE THOMAS SYMONS was born at Denton, in Buckinghamshire, Nov. 1, 1714, Old Style. When he was about ten years of age, he came with his parents to London, with whom he refided as an affectionate and obedient child, till he was bound apprentice to a refpectable Dyer, in Old-Street, with whom he honestly served out the term of his apprenticeship, executing every trust reposed in him, with great uprightness and fidelity. A very ferious accident, which Mr. Symons met with when only ten years of age, was the mean, in the hand of God, of producing that ferioufnefs and abftinence from vain amufements. and worldly company, for which he was ever after remarkable. VOL. XXX. January, 1807. Being |