Person:John Saffrey (1)

March 14, 1825 - Salisbury and Winchester Journal

Died on Wednesday morning the 9th inst., at his house in Castle-street, the Rev.John Saffery, for 35 years pastor of the Baptist congregation assembling in Brown-street, in this city. Mr.Saffery was in the 63d year of his age; his athletic form and naturally robust constitution seemed to promise a much longer life, but a disease of the liver which had for some time been secretly undermining his strength, encreased upon him, notwithstanding all the remedies which medical skill could employ, till it terminated in his dissolution. By his family and numerous friends his loss will be long and severely felt, and most deeply deplored; and such was the sterling integrity and expansive benevolence of his character, that many beyond his immediate circle will unfeignedly regret his decease; but to himself the prospect of a blissful immortality proved more than sufficient to counter balance the pain of leaving his endeared relations; and the agonies of approaching dissolution, and the closing scenes of his useful and laborious life, added a fresh and powerful testimony to the truth and efficacy of those doctrines which had so long been the theme of his public ministry, and the foundation of his own hope towards God.