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the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, James Peirce (search)
n 1715, a vacancy occurring among the associated ministers was supplied by a Mr. Lavington, a young man of no great talent, but abundant orthodoxy, and more zeal threputation, would have been contented to remain quietly in the background. Mr. Lavington soon shewed that this was far from being his intention; the less so, as he d of being suppressed, were encouraged and promoted by the orthodox minister, Lavington. Soon afterwards, he avowed his resolution to bring the whole affair before d not done the same. At length it was formally resolved, on the motion of Mr. Lavington, (that it is the general sense of this assembly, that there is but one livipressed in scripture words. Mr. Hallet in like manner refused his assent. Mr. Lavington of course gave it without reserve. Mr. Withers offered them this explicatil to their cause than open warfare. And if on one side it be asserted that Mr. Lavington and his party were guilty of deceitful transactions, it cannot be denied on
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, Micaiah Towgood. (search)
the Bodleian Library, shews that it was substantially well founded, though the blame had not been laid to the charge of the real offenders. The variations prove to be even more numerous than had been imagined, and some of them are of considerable importance; tending for the most part to soften the evidence afforded by various passages against the royalists, and to blacken the character of several of the parliamentary leaders. In 1749, Mr. Towgood was invited to become co-pastor with Mr. Lavington, Mr. Walrond, and his cousin Mr. Stephen Towgood, to the two united congregations of dissenters at James's Meeting and Bow Meeting, Exeter. The two former of his destined colleagues were the same who had taken such an active part against Mr. Peirce and Mr. Hallet thirty years before; but the very invitation of Mr. Micaiah Towgood was in itself a proof that the spirit of the times, by a gradual and imperceptible progress, rather than by any sudden or violent transition, was considerably