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    tain an eulogy on the brave General Wolfe , which exhibits the author ' s talents for splendid panegyric in a very favourable point of view . He afterwards got a

    living in the West Indies , where he died . Joseph , on leaving Kenctai , Settled at Hull ; ami , after his conformity , was made vicar of Paul near that town . Benjamin ( No . 46 of this list ) went from Kendal to Glasgow , where , on taking the degree of M , A . he published and defended

    a thesis De Snmmo Bono . He settled for a short time at Congle . ton , from whence he removed to St . Thomas ' s , in the Borou&h , and , on conforming , became

    rector of Burgh , in Suffolk , and took the degree of LL . D . In 1761 , he published anexcellent sermon on the Religious Education of Children ; soon after , a

    Family Prayer , in the preface to which he offers a very free explanation of the phrase through Christ . In 1764 , he preached Lady Moyer ' s Lectures in Defence of the Trinity , and afterwards

    published them under the title -of cc An Illustration of the Logos ;" in which , as the author says in his preface , the Trinity is indeed defended " in a mahrier perfectly NEW / ' The book is , in truth ,

    completely Unitarian . The Arian doctrine is very successfully attacked ; and the texts usually alleged in favour of'bur . Lord ' s preexistence are , perhaps , more satisfactorily explained than in any other place . In the 'Appendix , he kbiy defends Bishop Law on the question of an intermediate state . He afterwards took an active [> arj in the confessional-controversy against Rotk ^ rain . ( of

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    Hough ton le Spring , ) Ruttierforth , arid others , so as to obtain from Archdeacon Blackburne the character of " an incomparable writer . * About 1780 , he published a Dialogue on the Question of . Liberty and Necessity , uride r

    the title of " The Necessitarian ^ which scarcely admits of an answer . In the preface he almost goes out of his way to censure the church for her restrictive article

    on free-will . He has lately published a specimen of an English Dictionary upon a new plan , under the title of Prolepsis ~ Phitolom gice Anglieance ; a work of great promise ^ which it is greatly to be

    wished that the author may liyie to finish . Its Latin title , however , has had the sarrie effect , as has Palry's Horce PaulinvBy of preventing many persons from venturing to look into it , who would be much entertained and .

    benefited by it . 13 . John Blackburne , Settled atRavenstonedale , Westmoreland , whence he removed to Southwark , and afterwards to

    New bury . He was the editor of Mr . Haynes ^ s "' Script ure Account of the Attributes and Worship of God , and of the Character ^ and Offices of Jesus Chiisl , ^ printed in 1750 , with a judicious preface * Perhaps some correspondent can furnish a more lull accdunt of him . 1738 . 14 % David Graham , Settled at Tew ksbury . , 15 . Edward Crane , Settled ai Novwich ; 16 . Tlf U » CbRDI ^ GI-iY , Settled first at Whi tworth ^ near Rochdale ; then at Doblane , neor Manchester ; and lastly at Hull ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1810, page 325, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2406/page/5/