the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians

‘ [77] 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 to a small congregation of friends who entertained similar opinions with himself, but without receiving any salary, though his income was now much reduced, his wife's jointure having passed to her children by her former marriage. This, however, was, after a few years, dissolved by the death of the principal members, and he had not afterwards any ministerial engagement, but retired into a silent obscurity, but not into idleness, as he appeared occasionally before the public as the author of various able tracts, both in support of the principles for which he had suffered so much, and on other theological questions. Many of these were afterwards collected into a volume printed in 1719, to which is prefixed the interesting narrative from which we have given several extracts of the proceedings against him at Dublin.

His first publication was a short letter to Dr. Willis, Dean of Lincoln, remonstrating against