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the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians 12 8 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 10 0 Browse Search
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the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, John Biddle (search)
y; but his concessions of the title God, as applied to Christ, and of the distinct personality of the Holy Spirit, involve his argument in difficulties and obscurities, of which an expert opponent would not fail to take great advantage. The Testimonies, &c., among other decisive proofs that the opinions of these early fathers were very remote indeed from what has passed for orthodoxy in later times, contain several of the remarkable passages which have since been rendered so familiar by Dr. Priestley's History of the Corruptions of Christianity, and the controversy to which it gave rise. No one acquainted with the temper of those times will imagine that such publications as these could come abroad without exciting the most vehement indignation againt their author, and calling down upon his head a still heavier storm than any which he had hitherto experienced. It was manifested, as usual, by most arbitrary exertions of that power which our Lord utterly disclaimed as a supporter f
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, George Benson (search)
was a second time married, to Mary, daughter of Mr. William Kettle, of Birmingham; at which place he some time afterwards declined an invitation to settle, as colleague with Mr. Bourn in the pastoral charge of the New Meeting, since served by Priestley, Toulmin, and other eminent men. In 1743 appeared The Reasonableness of Christianity, as delivered in the Scriptures. The more immediate object of this work was to refute a well-known deistical publication which was then recent, entitled Chhe Epistles, &c. Another, less known to fame, but not less worthy, though the shortness of his mortal career did not afford him the opportunity of acquiring such extensive reputation, was Mr. John Alexander, of Birmingham, who is mentioned by Dr. Priestley, in his Memoirs, as his favourite fellow student, and a young man of very high and distinguished attainments. He died in 1765, in the 30th year of his age. He published nothing in his lifetime, except a few contributions to the periodicals o
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, Dissenting Academics. (search)
a particular sect; and they have generally adopted the same unfair means of securing this object which, when put into operation against themselves, had occasioned their own exclusion from Oxford and Cambridge; demanding both from tutors and students a declaration of their adherence to a certain system of doctrines, or subscription to a certain specified formula of human composition. In some instances they have even gone beyond the universities in the rigour of their restrictions. Thus Dr. Priestley tells us, that at the academy at Mile End, to which his friends were, at first, desirous to send him, every student was not only required to subscribe his assent to ten printed articles of the strictest Calvinism, but to repeat his subscription every six months. We may fairly claim it as a distinction (an honourable distinction we deem it) on the part of Unitarian Dissenters, that their academies, at the same time that they have commonly aimed at as high a literary character as circu
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, Caleb Rotheram, D. D. (search)
whatever they may have been, with which that institution has been conducted.—Funeral Sermon for Mr. Clark, p. 33. Dr. Priestley, who appears to have been one of the first class of students entered under the new administration at Daventry, gives the friends of the institution, when it led to the appointment of Dr. Aikin himself, and the consequent nomination of Dr. Priestley to fill the station which he had quitted. On December 3, 1769, as he was setting out for Oldbury, Mr. Clark was thiews at this period appear to have been what are called Arian, in which he agreed at that time, as we are informed by Dr. Priestley, with his fellow-tutors, and with all the neighbouring Presbyterian ministers, except Mr. Seddon of Manchester. Dr. Aikin added some obscure notions on the doctrine of atonement, the only subject of much consequence, says Dr. Priestley, on which they differed. On all these points, however, there is reason to believe that his views, like those of his distinguishe
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, Micaiah Towgood. (search)
Manning's account, it would seem that a new generation had risen up, with whom it was nearly the reverse. A decisive proof of this change is the fact that, on the announcement of Mr. Towgood's intended resignation, the congregation invited Dr. Priestley to be his successor; a circumstance to which Dr. P. alludes in a letter to Mr. Bretland, March 19, 1781.—See Life of Priestley, vol. i. 350. The first change introduced by Mr. Towgood's influence appears to have been in the mode of admisPriestley, vol. i. 350. The first change introduced by Mr. Towgood's influence appears to have been in the mode of admission to the Lord's supper; previous to which it had been customary to adopt a practice similar to that in use among the Independents, and to require a declaration of the candidate's faith and experience, more minute than, in his opinion, the Scriptures authorized: after this time, it was left to the ministers to ascertain by private conversation that the parties wishing to give this testimony of their faith in Christ were influenced in so doing by right dispositions and views. When they were s