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byterian minsters ; He defended tikis thesi 8 pafwmes J£ illum «* # itiaftri ' Hath tflS testimonial ^ assignecUby I ? r « AttTJestey Samuel Slater , John , Quick , Jabpr Tur-D er * J & obm-firarilsMii , . Mr . Hussey exercised his ministry at Cambridge witfrgr ^ at s « G < e « £ till Qrtober 1696 ) afc > vhieh t * nae his-church had increased tof v & % communicants , .
Several indeed ? ha 4 died , so that at that time there renamed <* nLy ninety or thereabouts * Qctohcr , i 4 > # 6 , sixty-six members of th < s church yvith the pastor , voted for a congregatJbqal discipline , and twenty-four were against k ; the former atgned a rigidcovenant * drawn up by Mr . Hussey ; the latter left the church and weat to Green-street , which church became Psesbyterian .
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THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH MEETIN © ON HOG'HILL , CAMBRIDGE . Mr . Hussey continued pastor of this new-modelled church j and the senior deacon was tire Rev . Robert Wilsen , who had been ejected from the curacy of Over , in 1662 , and afterwards taught music in Cambridge till 1710 , when he died full of days and of the fruits of righteousness .
Great success attended Mr * Hussey s ministry till 1718 , when some disputes about church discipline chiefly , and partly > about his doctrine , rendered him very uneasy , and at the close of the year
1719 * he accepted an invitation from the late Mr . Humphrey ' s church in Petticoat-lan « , London , and removed from Cambridge , January , 1720 , N . S . leaving a congregation of 1100 , and a church of more than 150 members .
Mr * Hussey , while at Cambridge , published——! . The Gospel Feast , thirty sermons on L , ukc xiv . 17 ; preached at Cambridge in 1691 , atid printed 169 z . 8 vo . z . A Warning from the Winds , a sermon 041 -J ohn iii > , 8 .. preached at Canibridge January zptk , 1703 ^ -4 ^ quarto . 3 . A Funeral Sermon for his late Wife ^ preached Ecbruary 3 d , 1703- ^ 4 5 , quarto . of
4 . Xhe . Gl ^ ry Chri st unveiled against the Rev . J . Hunt of Northampton , 1796 ,, thick quarto , 5 , God ' z Q pcra ^ iQiis of G ^ ce , 1707 , 8 vo . After his dvceas , e , JV ^ r . \\ 4 tpsk oi &* dhath 9 in . ^ s ^^ x , ' jpub lisl ^ 4 tw (> of hL > sernions on f ^ att . xj , a 8 r -quarto ^ and thero are now three q ^ afta voku of hirf se rmons in MS . con-KMpi pX pinery . three sermons * . After Mr . Hus » ey * s departure , tlic
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church imri ^ scyCTul mia isters on trimly bat could qot , agree in tbeir choice of a successor . The twp moat likely candidates were the Rev . Messrs . Thtogmor-U > n apd Davis ; but as they could not a ^ ree to settle either cir , to part with eitherr about ioo members withdrew
with Mr . Davis , jf 700 , and opened another meetings and the remaining fifty settled for iheir pastor April nth , If 732 , the Rev . Jflpies Thrpgniorton , whose ordination sermons ^ vere preached by Messrs . Bradbury and Sladen * Mr . Throgmorton continued his ministry till September 29 th , 17 * 8 , when Le re * moved to Ailsbury .
The church procured supplies , but could not agree on a pastor till 1734 , when they chose to that office the Rev . Joseph Dadly , Hira they excluded the next year ( June * 4 th , 1735 ) at which several being dissatisfied , Mr , Da & y opened a meeting m Sjparrow ' s-lane # and after a while removed to
Gamlingay . He published a . funeral Sermon , 8 vo . On July o ^ th > 1736 , the church chose for their pastor Mr . Samuel Shepe j ' % it as he proved an ir ^ moral man , they
4 vailed themselves again , of that noble privilege of prptestant disseot « -s , and on November 3 d , 1738 , cut him off and dismissed him . On Nov . 33 d , the same year , they invited to the pastoral office the Rev . Mr . (( afterward * DrJ Conder , the Rev . Mr . afterward * Dr . ) Conder ,
who was ordained September a 7 th , Z 739 * The church had enjoyed almost no peace siccc Mr Hussey ' s departure ; partly owing to the disputes among the people , which had originated before Mr . Hussey left them , and had continued till now , and partly to the violent
tempers of their pastors . 3 ut their present pastor was happily in ^ truraentaL in restoring jhenvto lotpc degree of harniony and good order- Mr . Conder exercised his ministry here till October 13 th , i ? 54 » when he removed' to London . J une jth , i 7 j 5 , tfie Rev . Caleb Sit \ y canic in consequence of an invitation sjent
Kim , and \ vas ordained pastor , August 5 th , 1757 . Mr . S ' lbty continued his -ministry till September 29 th , 1759 * when he renioyed and was succeeded by the ' ftev . ^ b rafi ^ rn ! Dar !> y , vsho Vas crdairjed | jui y i At \ i , t . 76 . 3 f andVeraoyed September % (}& , if 6 b . In the fojlowipg ; year ' the Vnurct inv ) ted 3 a nil on' Oct . i $ Lh > xj 6 $ , ipw£ } 6 ^^^ daine 3 , who is their present pastor ( l 774 )>
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625 Protestant Dissenting Churches in Cambridgeshire
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1810, page 626, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1708/page/6/
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