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    ford , where he had been an eminent tutor . Here he went through the whole course of philosophy : was a very close

    student , and so remarkably improved his time , as to receive from his learned tutor the character of an indefatigable student . He would also often add , that . this pupil was more ready to learn than he was to teach , and that he knew no insuperable

    difficulties in the pursuit of knowledge . After having finished his academical studies at Brynllywarch , he spent some time in the instruction of youth ; and then went

    on a visit to his god-father , Mr . James fjowell , a minister of the church of England , and nephew of the gentlerhan of the

    same name , above-mentioned j who took a great deal of pains to reduce him to conformity , but without success . He studied

    the point with real impartiality , being very solicitous to find out the truth , and equally willing to be determined by its force either way ; but upon the whole , his doubts increased , and he became a confirmed Nonconformist . His dissent was with him a real matter of conscience , and the effect of matur ^ st deliberation .- His parents were high Conformists , and no friends to Dissenters at that time ; and while he was with his

    god-father , which was about six months , he wanted no inducements to conform . He saw all the preferments engrossed by the churchy and that the Dissenters were a company of ridiculed , reproached , and oppressed people ; and could promise to himself nothing but scorn and sharne , poverty and prisons , in joining that party . But as the dissenting way appeared to him to be the most agreeable to the Scripture , he resolved to follow it ;

    believing that most comfort was to be expected among those who in their worship came the nearest to the sacred pattern , and endeavoured to glorify God according to his own express directions . " That which gave the most peculiar satisfaction to his thoughts ( says his biographer , ) was , that no opposition was

    made against them from Scripture or solid reason /' His perplexing doubts being effectually dissipated , he resumed his studies with his wonted eagerness ^ and now made them all preparatory to the sacred office . His abilities for the ministry were very considerable ; nor was he less remarkable for his

    serious and undissembled piety , which soon attracted the veneration of all good men , especially the Nonconformists , artiong ; whom he was now admitted to preach as a candidate . He entered upon that work when he was vtry young , and when there was a vigorous enforcing of the penal laws against Protestant

    Dissenters . Yet the certain prospect of bonds and imprisonments in the exercise of his ministry did not at all terrify him : his terror proceeded rather from a sense of the importance of the work in which he was now going to engage . [ To be continued . ]

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1806, page 175, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1723/page/7/