Beddome's admiration for Abraham Booth

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Abraham Booth (born 1734) died in 1806 and his funeral sermon was preaached by James Dore (1763/4-1825). Dore's sermon was soon published with a memoir composed by John Rippon (1751-1836). In the memoir Rippon includes a footnote that says of Booth

No wonder that the gracious and eminent Mr. Beddome, of Bourton, when speaking of this eminent saint, some years since, should have exclaimed, "Oh, that Abraham Booth's God may be my God."

One would like more detail. In 1769 Booth had become pastor of Little Prescot Street Baptist Church, Goodman's Fields, with whom Beddome has been baptised thirty years before. Perhaps it was said in 1769.

See A sermon [on Numb. xxiii. 10], occasioned by the death of A. Booth, preached ... by J. D.: and a short memoir of the deceased, incorporated with the address delivered at his interment, ... by J. Rippon

Child of many prayers

The Unitarian Robert Aspland (1762-1836) of Hackney, in a letter to the Rev Thomas Nic(k)lin, of Burwell, Cambridgeshire, in September 1797 wrote
 

On Monday afternoon, I was at the performance of the ordinance of baptism at Mr [James] Dore's [1764-1825] meeting, Maze Pond, Southwark. There were four baptized, two males and two females. The service was conducted with great propriety, and the sermon was very forcible. I almost wish you had been there. One of the men who were baptized was the son of Mr Beddome, Baptist minister, deceased. Upon his coming down into the water, Mr D exclaimed, "Here is the child of many prayers!" Upon which there seemed to be a general stir among the people present (the number of whom was great), and many could not refrain from weeping. It was a very comfortable opportunity to most present. The path of duty is the path of comfort.

Presumably the one baptised was Samuel Beddome.