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    educated at the academy of Dr . Caleb Rotheram , t ) f Kendal , an institution to which the Dissenters of the last age were indebted for some of their most respectable and learned ministers * . Mr .

    Lovvthion ' s pulpit -talents , as many will remember , were very striking ; his mode of conducting , the public devotions of the congregations was uncommonly fervent , serious , and impressive ; his discourses were judicious and highly animated ; superior to the fear of man , he followed Truth wherever she led

    him , and communicated the result of his enquiries into the doctrines , duties and prospects held forth in the scriptures , without concealment or disguise , to a people who , he was happy to know .

    did by no means grudge him the liberty which he assumed , but freely heard what he freely declared , even though they might not always go along with him in the deductions to which his

    researches led him ; allowing to their minister the full exercise of that right which they claimed for themselves , of examining and judging , in matters of religion , every one for himself . This liberal conduct he strongly recommends to other societies and to Christians in

    creneral , in an excellent sermon , which he preached ( August 26 , 1756 ) at the ordination of the Rev . Caleb Hotheram , his tutor ' s son and successor at Kendal , and afterwards published at the unanimous re * quest of the ministers and people who heard it . And he records

    * For an account of Dr . Rotheram , < and his pupils , sec the Monthly Re-$ ) o » itoryfor x 8 xo . Vol . v . pp . % tj * 331 . 435 <» 46 *

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    his grateful and honourable testimony to the conduct of this church in particular , in the dedication of his Funeral Sermon for Mr . Kog , erson ; a testimony which may they long continue to deserve !

    On Mr , Rogerson ' s death in 1760 , Mr . Lowthion became the sole minister , and continued so till his death in 1780 , after having been twenty-eigbt years connected with this congregation . During this period he published three more sermons : one on the death of the

    Rev . Joseph Wilkinson , of North Shields , in which he had an op . portunity of contrasting , the unkind treatment which that gentleman had met with from some persons of a more narrow spirit with the gene . rous conduct of his own friends :

    another on the day of thanksgiving for the peace of 1763 ; and a third delivered before the * Protestant dissenting ministers who met at Alnwick , June 14 th , 1764 , to in . stitute a scheme for the relief of

    their widows and orphans , which has been productive of the greatest benefit ; and afterwards , with some ^ Iterations , to this congregation , on their first annual

    collection for the institution , to which they have ever since continued among the chief benefactors , having contributed in this way upwards of 500 / .

    On the death of Mr . Lowthion , Dr . Hoodj of Brampton , ( who had then just published an excellent Discourse on the Nature of Christ s Kingdom , recommending a more Jibrral treatment of our Catholic

    fellow-subjects , the riotous proceedings against whom in the metro * polis and in different parts of Scot-Jand he lamented as a disgrace to the Christian name , ) was invited m H »«

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    088 History of the Hanover Square Congregation , Newcastle .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1811, page 588, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2421/page/12/