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the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, Thomas Emlyn (search)
ted Dr.) James Foster, Ministers of the Baptist congregation at the Barbican. His talents and learning were, however, estimated at their due value by some of those who were most competent to appreciate them; and he was admitted to the intimate friendship of several persons of high distinction and eminence, particularly Dr. Samuel Clarke and Mr. Whiston; who nearly agreed with him in religious opinions, and the latter of whom had suffered for his principles, though not to the same extent. In 1726, on the death of the excellent Mr. James Peirce, of Exeter, it was proposed to invite Mr. Emlyn to become his successor. As soon, however, as he was acquainted with it, he requested them to desist, thanking them for their respectful attention to him, and excusing himself from accepting an invitation on the ground of his declining years and increasing infirmities, He was naturally of a very cheerful and lively temper, and enjoyed a good state of health through the greater part of his life, t
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, James Peirce (search)
o his life, March 10, 1726, in the fifty-third year of his age. He was buried in the churchyard of St. Leonard's, Exeter, and his friends were desirous of erecting a monument over his remains, with a suitable Latin inscription, which they had prepared. They had no idea of the necessity of consulting the clergyman of the parish on the subject; but, when the work was nearly finished, this gentleman reminded them of his right to inspect and sanction every thing of that kind which was put up in his churchyard. When the intended inscription was submitted to him, he refused the necessary license. He was then requested to allow the following words to be inscribed on the tombstone, Here lies the reverend, learned, and pious Mr. James Peirce. He replied, that Mr. Peirce could not properly be styled reverend, because he had not had episcopal ordination; nor pious, because he taught errors. All, therefore, that was finally placed on the stone was simply Mr. James Peirce's Tomb, 1726.
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, George Benson (search)
ns and providence of God, of our dependence on him and obligations to him, and of our concern for moral improvement, is a rational and advantageous exercise of the mind, and may with reason be expected to procure favours from God; not by working a change in the Deity, who will always do what is best; but by producing such a change for the better in man, as will render it best and fittest for the Deity to distinguish the pious and humble suppliant with instances of his particular favour. In 1726 he married Mrs. Elizabeth Hills, widow, with whom he lived very happily for fourteen years. In 1729 he received and accepted an invitation to become minister of a congregation in King John's Court, Southwark, the duties of which station he discharged with great acceptance and satisfaction for eleven years. The admirable success which had attended Mr. Locke's endeavours to apply the principles of just and rational interpretation in his excellent commentary on five of St. Paul's Epistles, ha
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, Samuel Chandler (search)
own principles, they with equal zeal vindicated the right of others to take the opposite side, and to bring forward whatever arguments appeared to them to be fitted to promote their cause, were mainly instrumental in diffusing more liberal notions of the true grounds on which all such questions should be discussed, by leaving them to be debated on their own merits, without seeking for the unauthorized interference of the civil magistrate. Soon after the publication of this work in the year 1726, Mr. Chandler received an invitation to settle, as minister, with the Presbyterian congregation in the Old Jewry, one of the most respectable societies among the Dissenters. Here he continued, first as assistant, and afterwards as pastor, for the space of forty years; and discharged the duties of the ministerial office with great assiduity and ability, being much esteemed and regarded by his own congregation, and acquiring a distinguished reputation both as a preacher and a writer. That he
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, John Taylor, (search)
of the Marriage Act which confined the right to the Established Church. At Kirkstead it clearly appears that the minister was in the habit of marrying. He did so, in some measure, from necessity, there being no church or chapel of the Establishment attached to the district. In fact, Dr. Taylor was himself married there, on the 13th day of August, 1717, to Mrs. Elizabeth Jenkinson, a widow of Boston; and it was from such marriage that the widely-spread line of his descendants sprang. In 1726 he had an invitation to Pudsey, near Leeds, which, on mature deliberation, he declined to accept. In order the better to determine this point, he drew up an accurate statement of the advantages and disadvantages of each side of the question, in which the recommendations of his settlement at Kirkstead are represented in no very attractive light. He complains that he is among a people not only illiterate, but generally sluggish; little addicted to reading, of no ingenuity, and even insensibl