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the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, James Peirce (search)
e over the whole. A committee of thirteen was entrusted with the general management of their congregational affairs, the contributions of the whole body being thrown into a common stock, and divided equally. Murch's Presbyterian and General Baptist Churches in the West of England, 387. The united body was numerous and highly respectable, forming a large proportion of the most substantial citizens of the place. Mr. Peirce's invitation appears to have been not only unanimous, but pressed witat principle of the sufficiency of scripture, amidst the clamours of ignorance, prejudice, and bigotry, at the risk of losing friends, reputation, means of subsistence,—all, indeed, that most men value! History of the Presbyterian and General Baptist Churches in the West of England, p. 398. The minority which retired with Mr. Peirce and his colleague were, however, by no means contemptible in numbers, and still less so in respectability and intelligence; consisting, as might be expected,
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, James Foster (search)
a busy world, spent several years, and composed many of those excellent discourses on natural religion and social virtue (with the annexed offices of devotion) which have been read with universal admiration during the last and present ages; and which, while they exhibit to posterity the most beautiful display of the divine attributes and important duties of human life, will immortalize the name and memory of their learned and pious author. Murch's History of the Presbyterian and General Baptist Churches in the West of England, p. 159. Notwithstanding these discouraging circumstances, and the small prospect which the prevailing state of public feeling on the religious disputes of the day held out to him of acquiring that acceptance and opportunity of usefulness for which his dispositions and character fitted him, and to which his eminent talents entitled him to aspire, he still retained great cheerfulness, and pursued his studies with undiminished application. His chief view, s