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Doolittle (search for this): chapter 4
d, when such a destination held out no flattering prospect, and might lead to bonds and imprisonment, they did not hesitate to devote their son to the Christian ministry in that connexion. For this purpose, after the usual preparatory course of grammar learning, he was sent, in 1678, to an academical institution conducted by a Mr. Shuttleworth, at Sulby, in Northamptonshire. For a short time he was admitted at Emanuel College, Cambridge, and was afterwards transferred to the academy of Mr. Doolittle, in the neighbourhood of London. Here he had greater advantages in the access to books, &c.; but there is reason to think that he was more indebted to his own personal exertions and private studies than to the instructions he received. His tutors appear to have been worthy and conscientious, but narrow-minded men, of no superior talent or compass of thought. He seems, however, to have speedily acquired reputation as a young man of acquirement and promise; for, in 1683, when only twent
W. Manning (search for this): chapter 4
r matters of difference in discipline and ceremonial an insuperable bar to communion. At this period, however, he also formed an intimate acquaintance with Mr. W. Manning, a worthy dissenting minister at Peasenhall, in his neighbourhood. Their congenial habits and pursuits occasioned frequent meetings, and they engaged togethey from the opinions then generally prevalent. The doctrine of the Trinity in particular they agreed, first in doubting, and at length in rejecting altogether. Mr. Manning embraced the Socinian view, but could not prevail on his friend to concur with him, as he could not satisfy himself with the Socinian interpretation of the textthumous volume was published of sermons, which are of a character to induce the judicious reader to wish that a more copious selection had been made. Note.—Mr. W. Manning was one of the venerable two thousand whose names were immortalized in the recollection of all true lovers of religious liberty on Bartholomew's day, 1662. H
Esther Bury (search for this): chapter 4
r nearly twelve years. Mr. Emlyn appears to have been a highly popular and acceptable preacher, and the sermons of his which have reached us, prove that he was very deservedly so. They are at once rational, persuasive, and pathetic; and when the subject calls for it, often rise to a high strain of eloquence. He is said also to have been particularly excellent and attentive in discharging the more private duties of a Christian minister. A few years after he settled at Dublin he married Mrs. Esther Bury, a widow lady with a handsome jointure; and thus being possessed of an easy competence, successful and acceptable in the discharge of his ministerial duties, apparently respected and beloved by his congregation and friends, and peculiarly blest in his domestic relations, he seemed to enjoy the fairest prospect of permanent and increasing usefulness, and of a reasonable share of temporal respectability and comfort. But it had pleased a wise Providence to order it otherwise, and dark cl
Richard Pyne (search for this): chapter 4
character with which he is invested of a Mediator between God and men. As soon as might be after the appearance of this tract, it was Mr. Emlyn's intention to have returned to England. Some however of the more bigoted and hot-headed dissenters (with singular inconsistency, considering that they themselves had at this very time in Ireland no legal toleration, but were only connived at) were resolved to have him prosecuted, and with this view procured a warrant from the Chief Justice, Sir Richard Pyne, to seize the author and his books. The Chief Justice was at first disposed to refuse bail, but afterwards consented, and two sufficient persons were bound in £ 800 for his appearance. The indictment, after having been three several times altered before it could be finally settled, occasioned the trial to be postponed till June 14, 1703. On that day, before the court sat, Mr. Emlyn was apprised by an eminent counsel that he would not be permitted to speak freely, but that it was det
Christ Jesus (search for this): chapter 4
t left me; and, above all, that he has given me a mind, I think, as well contented with it as ever I was in my greatest prosperity. I am content to want the kind and vain respects of the world, and to give up my name to mistaken reproach; or to lose it, if that may be, in silent unregarded obscurity. I have suffered the loss of many things, and do not repent; but upon the review, I do still count it all but loss and dung, if it has in any way advanced the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. During Mr. Emlyn's confinement in the Marshalsea prison, he procured the use of a large room, where he preached to such of the debtors as came to hear him, and to several of the lower class of his former hearers, who resorted to him there, when their betters were for the most part restrained by the fear of man, and whose continued affection and attachment was a great source of consolation to him. After his release, he shortly removed to London, where he preached for some time
Joseph Boyse (search for this): chapter 4
ch, however, he received an overture through Mr. Boyse, one of the ministers of the Presbyterian coomitted them, communicated his suspicions to Mr. Boyse, the other minister. They jointly waited oner, was not the course they chose to adopt. Mr. Boyse brought the affair before a meeting of the pit in the midst of all discouragements. Yet Mr. Boyse, in the preface to his Answer to my Humble Ise which he had professed in conference with Mr. Boyse and his brother ministers. And the main qued to the common gaol. During this interval, Mr. Boyse, who, if he had not been actively concerned ation. Here he wrote his General Remarks on Mr. Boyse's Vindication of the True Deity of our bless even the poor and cheap favour of a visit. Mr. Boyse was almost the only exception, who at length in a truly Christian and forgiving spirit. Mr. Boyse made several attempts for my liberty; whose Christ on Unitarian Principles; in answer to Mr. Boyse. This is an elaborate performance, displayi[1 more...]
Catholics (search for this): chapter 4
inst him at Dublin. His first publication was a short letter to Dr. Willis, Dean of Lincoln, remonstrating against his attempt, in a sermon preached before the House of Commons, to vindicate the penal laws against the Catholics on religious grounds. If these laws were to be justified at all, which ill this tract he does not call in question, it must be from political considerations, and those only. How far it was reasonable at any time to take for granted, as he seems to do, that all Catholics as such were necessarily hostile to the existing political constitution, and that they ought on that account to be visited with coercive laws, we shall not here inquire; but, in protesting against visiting them with persecution or civil disabilities on the ground of their religious opinions merely, he shews himself to have fully probed a question, which, even at that late period, was by no means so clearly and generally understood as it is at present. Shortly afterwards (in 1706) appear
Fowler (search for this): chapter 4
these the venerable mysteries of Christianity? of which I find not one word in holy writ; and therefore they must answer for the shame done to Christianity hereby, who have dared by such strained artifices to distort and abuse holy scripture, that they may impose these violent absurdities upon the gospel. In 1707 our author printed two tracts; one entitled The Supreme Deity of God the Father demonstrated, against Dr. Sherlock; and the other A Vindication of the Bishop of Gloucester (Dr. Fowler) from the Charge of Heresy brought against him by Dr. Sherlock. In these tracts, which are written with great smartness, he very dexterously sets against each other the two opposite parties of Trinitarians, sometimes called the Realists and the Nominalists, who were at that time engaged in a very animated controversy, and who carried matters to such a length that it would seem as if each party was worse in the estimation of the other than even the Socinians were in that of either. In t
Ormond (search for this): chapter 4
inst me was with regret and grief,—what he did for me was with choice and pleasure. So that I hope nothing in this history shall be any diminution to the character of his great worth and good temper, who endeavoured to allay the common odium against me as far as he could, without the loss of his own reputation. At length, through his frequent solicitations for a reducement of my fine, and by a very friendly and generous gentleman's help, Thomas Medlicote, Esq. I obtained the then Duke of Ormond's favour, who gave directions to the commissioners of reducement to reduce my fine to a hundred marks, according to the Lord Chancellor's favourable report, (to whom my petition had been referred,) that such exorbitant fines were against the law. Thus at length, but with difficulty, this heavy, and (as it appears) illegal fine was reduced to seventy pounds, which was paid into her Majesty's exchequer. But the Archbishop of Armagh, who (as Queen's Almoner!) had a claim, it seems, of a shi
Thomas Medlicote (search for this): chapter 4
tments. I am sensible that what he did against me was with regret and grief,—what he did for me was with choice and pleasure. So that I hope nothing in this history shall be any diminution to the character of his great worth and good temper, who endeavoured to allay the common odium against me as far as he could, without the loss of his own reputation. At length, through his frequent solicitations for a reducement of my fine, and by a very friendly and generous gentleman's help, Thomas Medlicote, Esq. I obtained the then Duke of Ormond's favour, who gave directions to the commissioners of reducement to reduce my fine to a hundred marks, according to the Lord Chancellor's favourable report, (to whom my petition had been referred,) that such exorbitant fines were against the law. Thus at length, but with difficulty, this heavy, and (as it appears) illegal fine was reduced to seventy pounds, which was paid into her Majesty's exchequer. But the Archbishop of Armagh, who (as Queen'
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