both lived to an extreme old age, the former dying at the age of 75 and the latter at that of 85, owed almost their whole support to his piety. Soon after the death of his Father in the year 1766, he wrote a Latin Epitaph to his memory, and caused it to be fixed, at his own expence, on a marble tablet, in the Collegiate Church in Manchester; a copy of which the curious reader will not be displeased to fee. M. S. Mancunienfis, Indole generosâ, Moribus fuaviffimis, Sermonis comitate, lepore, modeftiâ, Cæterifque humanioribus virtutibus adornati; Eminente inter alias pietate, Primum erga parentes, Quos ætate confectos, Ad fe recepit, obfervavit, extulit; Deinde erga filium unicum, SAMUELEM OGDEN, Quem tractavit educavitque liberaliffime: Qui viciffim illi Non meritis parem, Lubenti certè animo, Gratiam referebat. Obiit Anno Dom. 1766. Etat. 75. During the latter part of Dr. Ogden's life, he laboured under much ill health. About a year before he died, he was feized with a paralytic fit as he was stepping into his chariot, and was judged to be in immediate and extreme danger. The chearfulness with which he fuftained this shock, and the indifference with which he gave the neceffary orders on the event of his diffolution, which feemed to be then fo near, were fuch as could only be ascribed to a mind, perfectly refigned to the disposals of providence, and full of the hopes of happiness in a better state. A fecond return of the fame diforder, which after the first attack he daily expected, proved fatal. It may be neceffary to add, that the Five Sermons On the Lord's Supper, now first printed, had been prepared and transcribed for the prefs by the Author, a little before his death: they carry about |