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Turell; and in the parsonage, in Court Street, where James Otis had before had his dwelling and office. A week or two before the battle of Lexington, he removed to Waltham or Weston, and remained in one or both of these places, often making visits to the camp at Cambridge, till the British evacuated the town. Though his death was at last sudden, he had been sick for some weeks. At his funeral, which took place on the afternoon of a monthly lecture, Dr. Clark preached from Acts xx. 38. The following paragraphs are extracted from the sermon:

Justly should I incur the censure of his friends, and greatly should I injure the memory of Dr. Cooper, should I not say, he was a peculiar ornament to this religious Society. His talents as a minister were conspicuous to all; and they have met with universal applause. You know with what plainness, and, at the same time, with what elegance, he displayed the grace of the gospel. You know with what brilliancy of style he adorned the moral virtues; and how powerfully he recommended them to universal practice. When the joys of a better world employed his discourse, can you ever forget the elevated strains in which he described them? And his prayers,―surely they must be remembered, when his qualifications for the other duties of his office, and his many shining accomplishments are forgotten! If those, who constantly attended upon his ministry are not warmed with the love of virtue; if they are not charmed with the beauty of holiness; if they are not transported with the grace of the gospel; must they not blame their own insensibility? Remember, therefore, how you have seen, and heard, and hold fast, and repent.

But the place, in which I now stand, was not the only theatre, on which he appeared with such applause. In private, also, he displayed his talents for the office he sustained. With peculiar facility could he enter into the feelings of others, and adjust his conversation to the particular state of their minds. He could raise the bowed down, and encourage the feeble hearted. In the house of mourning, he could light up joy. He could inspire those, who were approaching the shades of death, with Christian fortitude. And, by expatiating on the mercy of God, and the merits of a Saviour, he could revive those, who were ready to despair. Thus various and accomplished his character, how justly are you affected on this occasion!

'However, the people of his charge are not the only persons, who mourn this event. The death of their honourable pastor is a general calamity. It is severely felt by all our societies; and by that, in a particular manner, which has been so long united with this Church in a stated lecture. It is felt by this town, which gloried in him no less as a citizen, than a minister of the gospel. It is felt by the University, to whose honour and interests he was passionately devoted. The governours of that learned society will testify, how ardently he laboured to raise it to superiour

which he said, 'God forbid that I should cease to pray for you, that another Cooper (I mean one like the deceased) be set over you in the Lord; a man of learning, parts, and powers, such as this place so much' wants and calls for.' Mr. Cooper preached once a fortnight, from the time of his invitation till he was ordained. C April 1st, 1746, he gave, in a sermon, a confession of his faith, to the general satisfaction of the audience.' The ordaining council consisted of the churches of Boston, Charlestown, and Cambridge. Mr. Webb prayed, Dr. Colman preached from Isaiah vi. 8, Dr. Sewall gave the Charge, and Mr. Prince the Right Hand of Fellowship. A discretion, which has since been understood to belong to the council, was on this occasion exercised by the congregation, who voted, at the request of the reverend pastor, Dr. Colman, that, in case he find himself disabled by the infirmities of age, or bodily weakness, to preside in the proposed ordination, pray, and give the charge, with the imposition of the hands of the presbytery, then that he be desired to request the Rev. Dr. Sewall, in the name of the Church, to preside and lead in that part of the solemnity.' Mr. Prince, however, spoke in his part of the service, of being directed by the reverend pastors and other messengers of the several churches, in council here convened.'

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(24.) p. 17. As early as 1754, Dr. Cooper published the Crisis, a spirited and well written pamphlet, against the project of an excise, which was favoured by many of his friends, the Whigs, and, after being adopted by the representatives, met, for a time, an unexpected obstacle in the governour. Before and during the revolutionary struggle, Dr. Cooper contributed largely to the Boston Gazette and the Independent Ledger. He was in constant correspondence with our ambassadors, and other persons of note, in France, and on terms of confidential intimacy with the French officers in this country. In calling him, in the paragraph to which this note refers, 'the leading divine of his country and time,' it was not intended to claim for him a place above such men as Dr. Chauncy and Dr. Mayhew. But the peculiar character of the former, and the prejudices, which existed against the latter on the score of doctrine, prevented them from taking that place among the clergy, which was conceded to Dr. Cooper.

(25.) p. 17. DR. COOPER was born March 28, 1725; baptized April 4th, following; and graduated in 1743, the year of his father's death. He lived at different times in a house on the south side of Cambridge Street, at the entrance of Bowdoin Square, now occupied by Dr. Spooner; in a house at the N. W. corner of Dassett's Alley, into which Dr. Colman had moved from State Street in 1715, and which, in 1769, was bought of Stephen Deblois by the Society for a parsonage, for £566.13.4; in the house in Brattle Square, opposite to the church, now occupied by Mrs.

Turell; and in the parsonage, in Court Street, where James Otis had before had his dwelling and office. A week or two before the battle of Lexington, he removed to Waltham or Weston, and remained in one or both of these places, often making visits to the camp at Cambridge, till the British evacuated the town. Though his death was at last sudden, he had been sick for some weeks. At his funeral, which took place on the afternoon of a monthly lecture, Dr. Clark preached from Acts xx. 38. The following paragraphs are extracted from the sermon:

Justly should I incur the censure of his friends, and greatly should I injure the memory of Dr. Cooper, should I not say, he was a peculiar ornament to this religious Society. His talents as a minister were conspicuous to all; and they have met with universal applause. You know with what plainness, and, at the same time, with what elegance, he displayed the grace of the gospel. You know with what brilliancy of style he adorned the moral virtues; and how powerfully he recommended them to universal practice. When the joys of a better world employed his discourse, can you ever forget the elevated strains in which he described them? And his prayers, surely they must be remembered, when his qualifications for the other duties of his office, and his many shining accomplishments are forgotten! If those, who constantly attended upon his ministry are not warmed with the love of virtue; if they are not charmed with the beauty of holiness; if they are not transported with the grace of the gospel; must they not blame their own insensibility? Remember, therefore, how you have seen, and heard, and hold fast, and repent.

'But the place, in which I now stand, was not the only theatre, on which he appeared with such applause. In private, also, he displayed his talents for the office he sustained. With peculiar facility could he enter into the feelings of others, and adjust his conversation to the particular state of their minds. He could raise the bowed down, and encourage the feeble hearted. In the house of mourning, he could light up joy. He could inspire those, who were approaching the shades of death, with Christian fortitude. And, by expatiating on the mercy of God, and the merits of a Saviour, he could revive those, who were ready to despair. Thus various and accomplished his character, how justly are you affected on this occasion!

However, the people of his charge are not the only persons, who mourn this event. The death of their honourable pastor is a general calamity. It is severely felt by all our societies; and by that, in a particular manner, which has been so long united with this Church in a stated lecture. It is felt by this town, which gloried in him no less as a citizen, than a minister of the gospel.. It is felt by the University, to whose honour and interests he was passionately devoted. The governours of that learned society will testify, how ardently he laboured to raise it to superiour

eminence; and how he encouraged those sciences, the sweets of which he had so early, and so liberally tasted. His death will be lamented by this commonwealth; and most sincerely by some of the first characters in it; for with them he was intimately connected, and they distinguished him by every publick token of respect.

'In one word, his death will be a common loss to these American states; for, as a patriot, he was no less celebrated, than as a divine. Well acquainted with the interests of his country, he constantly and ardently pursued them. But while, as a statesman, he discerned what would tend to our glory and happiness, as a minister of religion he prayed it might not be hid from our eyes. And you can tell with what fervour he offered up his supplications.

'I might now descend to the more ornamental parts of his character. I might display him as the familiar friend, and the entertaining companion. I might remind you of his correct and elegant taste; and that most engaging politeness, which rendered him so agreeable in every private circle. But why should I aggravate a wound, which already bleeds too much? Why should I call up the pleasing image of a person, whom you shall see no

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In an obituary notice, appended to the sermon, which was first published in the Continental Journal, and ascribed to the pen of the late Gov. Sullivan, it is said, "The nature of his illness, which, from the first, he apprehended would be his last, was such as rendered him, some part of the time, incapable of conversation. He had, however, intervals of recollection. At these times he informed his friends, that he was perfectly reconciled to whatever Heaven should appoint; willing rather to be absent from the body and present with the Lord; that his hopes and consolations sprang from a belief of those evangelical truths, which he had preached to others; that he wished not to be detained any longer from that higher state of perfection and happiness, which the gospel had opened to his view.

'He declared his great satisfaction in seeing his country in peace, and possessed of freedom and independence; and his hopes, that, by their virtue and publick spirit, they would shew the world, that they were not unworthy those inestimable blessings.'

The following are some lines from a Monody, which appeared in the Independent Chronicle of January 8, 1784:

'Tis done! from earth th' illustrious prophet flies,
Cooper, the all-accomplish'd Cooper, dies!

That bosom, where benevolence abode ;

That form, where nature every grace bestow'd;
That eye, where soft persuasion sweetly smil'd,
Illum'd the heart, and every care beguil'd;

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That tongue, which long, in virtue's cause, combin'd
Reason and truth, and eloquence refin'd,

Finished and fraught with all the sacred lore,—
Is cold-is lifeless-and must charm no more!
While the pure spirit, which the whole inform'd,
Glowed in the bosom, and the features warm'd,
Flown upward, free of elemental clay,

Explores new mansions in the fields of day.'

'Enlighten'd wisdom crown'd thy youthful head,
Fair science nurs'd thee, and the muses bred;

And taste, enamour'd, woo'd to vernal bowers,
And wreath'd, a favourite, with her choicest flowers;
While, pleas'd, religion to thy care consign'd

Her noblest aim, the bliss of human kind.

Yon hallow'd temple and thy flock forlorn

Now vainly seek thee on th' accustom'd morn;
The sacred morn, that usher'd holy days

All dedicate to pious prayer and praise.
When on those lips whole auditories hung,

And truths divine came brilliant from thy tongue,
Then did devotion beautifully climb,

In glowing pathos, and the truth sublime;
Extend to future worlds our wond'ring sight,
And ravish with ineffable delight.

Form'd to excel in each ennobled part
That burnish'd life, or humaniz'd the heart,
How did thy bright example recommend
The parent, partner, citizen and friend!
Warm in affection, wise with finished ease,
"Intent to reason, or polite to please,"
In private paths, in every publick line,
The best associate, statesman and divine!'

Dr. Cooper maintained an extensive correspondence in America and Europe. He was an active member of the Society for propagating the Gospel, and was one of the projectors, and the first vice-president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The University of Edinburgh sent him a diploma of doctor of divinity. He was a useful friend to the College. When the library was burned in 1764, he was very active in procuring means to repair the loss, and was a fellow from 1767 till his death. The following extract from the minutes of the overseers, relates to his election to the presidency:

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