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the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, James Peirce (search)
logies the scriptures set before us, and so recommend to our use. These, I was sure, must be safe, and the other might be doubtful. And it seemed to me very reasonable, that he that prays with others should make the worship as unexceptionable as possible to all Christians, by avoiding to bring into it disputable, doubtful, or unnecessary things. For this reason I left off the doxologies I had been wont to use. Western Inquisition, p. 8. From this extract, it appears, that in the year 1713, when Mr. Peirce was invited to remove to Exeter, he was fully convinced that the common doctrine of the Trinity was unauthorized by scripture, and had for some time been accustomed to address all his devotions exclusively to the Father. There were at that time three dissenting congregations at Exeter, assembling in different places of worship, but so far united that they were served in common by four ministers, who exercised a collegiate charge over the whole. A committee of thirteen was e
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, Nathniel Lardner (search)
mature age, it cannot be doubted that this period was employed in a diligent and conscientious preparation for the profession to which he was destined of a minister of religion. It was not till August 2, in that year, that he made his first appearance in the pulpit; and for four years after this time nothing further is known of him, than that he was a member of the congregational church of which Mr. Matthew Clark, a man of some eminence among the Dissenters of that period, was minister. In 1713, he was invited to reside in the house of Lady Treby, widow of Sir George Treby, late Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, as domestic chaplain, and tutor to her youngest son. Though we have no account of the manner in which the preceding years were spent, yet our knowledge of what Mr. Lardner afterwards became forbids us to doubt that, at this period, he was abundantly qualified by his knowledge, judgment, and learning, for the duties he was now called on to fill. After superintending the stu