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    No . III . Biographical Notices of some persons ^ < zvbose names occur zn the foregoing Memoirs . i . Rev . Francis Hubert , the maternal grandfather of Mr . Stogdon , was a man of great piety and of wonderful patience under worldly crosses

    and trials * of which he had a considerable share . He received his classical learning" at Westminster school , and was afterwards a commoner of Baliol College in Oxford . His first settlement as a minister , was at Monkton and Barwick , villages in Wiltshire , one mile distant from each other ; and he

    preached at one in the morning and the other in the afternoon . In 1662 , he removed to Oxford . On the passing of the Five Mile Act , he went and settled at Witney , where he preached privately till Charles ' s indulgence , when he had a place licensed . He died aoth October , 1676 , aged 49 . His ministry was suspended once

    only by an imprisonment of half a year , which he bore with great chearfulness . He had a right to an advowson of iool . per annum , which was left in the hands of a friend in special trust for him ; but he not conforming , it was sold . He

    was satisfied however , that God would provide for him and his , and he was not disappointed in his expectation . In his last sickness , he told the physician , he sent for him , because he thought it his duty to use means ; but not because he was fond of life , or fearful of death .

    44 For" he said , " through grace I can say , it is 110 more to me to die , than to undress and go to bed . " Calamy ' s Abridgment , vol . ii . p . y 6 l ,. or , Palmer ' s " Nonconformist ' s Memorial , " vol . ii .

    p . 498 . % . Standen , Bowden , Billingsley . Little information can be obtained concerning these gentlemen , by the writer of these pages . Mr . Standen was settled at Newbury ; in the year 1726 , he conformed . Mr . Bowden was

    pastor for many years of a congregation at Frome . There is in print a charge by him , delivered to Mr . afterwards Dr . Thomas Morgan , author of * ' The Moral Philosopher , " at his ordination at Frome , 6 th Sept . 1716 : To which is prefixed a sermon , on z Cor . iv . 1 , % . on the same occasion by Mr . Billingsley . The name of this gentleman is revived , and willibe transmitted through some years to come , by these Memoirs , « s the friend of free inquiry , and as the

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    patron of Dr . Foster and Air . Stogdon * ¦ whose house afforded to them , in the early days of their ministry , an asylum , when religious imposition and rancour drove them from Devonshire . The sermon referred to breathes a candid and liberal spirit , and carries in it agreeable traits of a respectable character .

    " Let me ** says Mr . Billingsley , " rather die than that I should , to serve any turn of life , or a party , misrepresent either the principles , or practices of any of my brethren or neighbours ; rather

    than ascribe such persuasions to them , as I know they constantly disowo ; though they best know their own thoughts , and have as rmich right to be believed in the professions they make , as I have in mine . " " We must

    not decline what we think a necessary publication of a truth or duty ; though by it we must condemn a former opinion , which we stiffly maintained ; and give an evidence that we could be mistaken . We must not decline it , because it will expose our follies and imperfections . I must not hide what I consider as

    important truth , because it should discover some hidden thing of dishonesty in me , lest it should cross my interest or a design which I have on foot , by putting my hearers on some duty or other , which is not very favourable to it . If I walk in craftiness , and my design be for instance , to kindle or blow up the coals

    of contention , to boil up the rage of a party , to gratify my pride , ambition , covetousness , revenge , or any other foolish and hurtful lust : in that case I may perhaps , be afraid of so much as reading to my hearers the excellent sermon of our Lord on the mount , his last sermon and prayer , or indeed almost any thing he ever said or did , that

    is left on record in the gospel ; the first Epistle of John , particularly the 3 d and 4 th chapters of it ; or 1 Cor . xiii . or Rom . xiv . I may be loath , that such sounds as these , should ever reach their ears : God is love : He that dwelleth in love , dwelleth m God . Love your enemies . . Charity sufifcreth long and is kind . He that hateth his biother is a

    murderer . Let . every man be fully persuaded in his own mind . Who art thou , that judgest thy brother ? to his own master he standech or falleth . Judge not that ye be not judged . Forbearing one another in love . Sometimes one part of God ' s word is suppressed , that people maynot gee how much they have

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    A-Supplement to the Memoirs of the Rev . Hubert Stogdon . 2 * 9

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1809, page 249, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1736/page/3/