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    BIOGRAPHY.

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    The following Memoir is extracted , by permission , from a Sermon delivered in the New Meeting-house , Birmjngham , on occasion of Mt . Edwarcb's death , by the Rev . John K ** n tislu The form of an address to the congregation in which Mr . Edwards formerly officiated is preserved , as being more faithful to the author and more interesting to the reader . Editor ,.

    THE Rev . John Edwards was , born January 1 , 176 ' 8 , ' at Ipswich , where his father * was pastor at a dissenting church . of the congregational denomination . In the year 1783 > he entered upon his studies for the ministry , in the seminary then

    supported at Hoxton bj f the trustees of Mr . Coward ' s will , and under the able direction of Dr . Savage , 'Dr . Kippis and Dr . Rees : in 1785 , he enjoyed the same patronage at Daventry , where he completed his academical education . His first settlement , as a

    minister , was at Gkiteacre , near Liverpool ' : in this situation , retired as it was , he manifested that ardour of mind which he afterwards more fully exhibited in defence of what he conceived

    to be truth and duty : and here

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    he began to realize the expectations which had been formed of him as a preapher . The consequence was that when the years and infirmities of the Rev .

    Samuel Blyth occasioned him , after a long , a useful and a most harmonious connexion , to resign the pastoral character in your society , Mr . Edwards was recommended

    to you as . his successor , and after officiating here ^ in ApriJ , 1791 9 was chosen to be colleague with Dr . Priestley . In the interval however , between his acceptance of your invitation and the season which had been fixed for the

    commencement 6 f his services , he was seized with a tedious and most distressing illness ^ which constrained him to defer for some months , his removal to this plac ^ e . Events had in the meantime oc ~

    * The Rev . David Edwards . ( See Appendix , No . i . )

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    SUPPLEMENT to VOL . III . OF THE MONTH LY REPOSITORY OF Theology and General Literature .

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    BIOGRAPHY .

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    MEMOIR OF THE REV . JOHN EDWARDS .

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    VOL . 1 U . 4 Z

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1808, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1706/page/1/