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    BIOGRAPHY.

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    Memoir of the Rev . William Footi by D ?\ Toulmin . The Rev . William Foot was a native of Plymouth , where he received his grammar learning : his academical studies were pursued partly under the Rev . Henry Grove , a name that deservedly rahks among the first on the tablet of dissenting ministers , at Taunton ; and partly under the Rev . John Alexander , at Stratford-uporu Avon , a person of the first note in his time for oriental learning . In 1728 , he settled with a , Calvinistic congregation , of the bapt ist

    persuasion , at Tiverton , in Devon ; which then assembled for worship in a building ; situated on the ruins of the outworks of the fortification . During two years of the short period of time which he spent in this connection , he was much employed in raising subscriptions to build a new meeting-house . In this space , he was in London , and received an invitation to become pastor of the baptist church , in Devonshire Square , of which the Earned Dr . Ward . Professor of

    Rhetoric , at Gresham College , was then a member ; who , afterwards , expressed himself very much disappointed , if not dis-P « eased in consequence of a step token by Mr . Foot , which diverted

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    TMS MONTHLY REPOSITORY or Theology and General Literature .

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    No . LXV . ] MAY . [ Vol . VI . r - - iir- rn - r ru r mta t . - ~ i ' ij * i J ^ T-ii _ ^ m ~~ M' n - nr ' ' - ^ 1 " - — ^ -TT" *~ i —~—• - " " m _ . - ¦ r l ~ i n i , _ . . .. jj ^ ^ i-. a -

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    the views of the congregation from him ; though it really did honour to the candour of his temper , to the impartiality of his enquiries and to the integrity of his principles . While Mr . Foot was in town , he purchased a copy of Archbishop Tillotson ' s Sermons : on the perusal of those , in which the ^ principles of Calvinism were discussed , he was much impressed ^ and the conviction produced in his mind led to a change of his sentiments . As he was invited to the pastoral office by the churcli in Devonshire square , while his

    judgment on doctrinal points was in agreement with theirs ., he thought himself obliged , on the grounds of sincerity , to state ingenuously , the change of his views on such subjects , before he accepted the overture . This open and fiank conduct , as might be expected , x ~ endered him no longer acceptable to those who had recently expressed a

    marked approbation of his ministerial gifts and services ; and thu ? as he himself expressed it , all his towering prospects of becoming a London divine terminated in an obscure retirement , between the high hills of North Devon . ^ Tha change of his' sentiments soon

    * On Mr . Foot ' s personal informiition to the writer of this Mcnoir .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1811, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2416/page/1/