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    darling theme , strkt fellowship , and passed a < tecr $ e not to displace the pacdo * baptut members , but to admit for the future none but sweh as were baptized by imt & ereioa . la Mr « Sinwon ^ s time the church greatly ded ^ ned both in numbers and practical religion . Some were cut ofif

    for t & eir immoralities * some returned back again , to the world , on which their hearts were chiefly placed , and the few pious souls that remained were covered with confusion at seeing some of their bestpeo |> ie withdraw to other churches . In the midst of this distress , Mr . Sim *

    son . accepted on invitation from the baptist church , at Norwich , who had lately buried their pastor the BLev . Mr . Sterne , and quitted hh charge at Cambridge . Mr , Simson wai a North Briton , educated At Aberdeen , at which University he took his degree of Master of Arts . He was a complete scholar , reckoned by

    some a ffood preacher , but of a most violent temper . A ford in his church , a tyrant ift his family , and a libertine in his life . He was pastor at Norwich , two or three years * thence he removed to Warwick , where he had been formerly pastor , ami wjiere , weighed down witk age and infirmities , he died suddenly , * 76 $ -

    Mr . Simson being gone * the little people * soured and disunited in their terpipsrs , dispirited with their prospects ami estremciy k > w ia their circumstances * jang ) e * l awhile and then broke up * the doors were shut and the people scattered . After some time it being recommended to them by some

    neighbour-* Oreat Gransden is in Huntingdonshire , on the edge of Cambridgeshire . Mr . Holcroft was pastor of that church at the time of his decease , and left lands towards m supports Mrs . Dittton ( well known by her writings ) was the widow of Mr . Button , formerly pastor of the church . She died some time ago , and left estates towards the support of a minister that produce Z 4 / . or 25 / . a year . Mr , Robinson , the pastor of the Baptist church at Cambridge * was chosen October , 1773 , by contending parties at Gran & dcn , to adjust a difference between the Rev , Mr . Blaekct , one trustee , \ lr . S . Fisher and some member * ,, on the one part , and ^ the rest of the member * and trustees on the other , and happily succeeded to the prevention of a breach in that society . He examined all their deeds , and found that

    their property consisted of a meeti & g ~ house and yard ; a minister ' s house and gar-, den ; a teaement inhabited by the widow of the last minister ; a house called the chool-house , tenanted by one Crane , at ioj . ; * n estate at Bourne at 3 / , iq ; . j aa estate at ELUaghaoa at 4 / . i 6 /»; -an «» tatc called Bryws at 10 / . ; an estate at Over at 67 , ; & anuai rqii ^_ taxes aud r ^ pair « < ieductcd > th ? re remained i */ . x ^ u . ^ ior t & c last talf year * These estates w ^ re in the hand * of six trustees , chosen by Mr ** DttCUwi heiwelf ( a 7 th was desulj wkoac njuuea arc James Wood , Nfrdinyycyrtri ; Robeit -Gi ^ y ^ <^ reat Gransd ^ q ; Johr > | U » daoo # duto ? Williaui Ped , XittC Or « uw-• kn ; Williani Wagstafir , Great Gfansden ; Samuel Flaker , Evers ^ fcsu .

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    ing ministers to try again , they had many meetings of fasting ; and prayer , and now and then procured a supply , and thus went on till July , 1759 * In the Spring of I 759 » Mrs . Dutton , of Great Gran * den , * informed one of the old deacons that there was a yoath at Norwich , about twenty-three years of age , who had preached tareo years among the Methodists , and now was inclined to

    settle with a Protestant Dissenting congregation , particularly among the Baptists , having lately been baptized at Ellingham , in Norfolk , by Mr . Dunkhorn , pastor of that church . The deacon called a meeting , consulted his brethren and invited Mr . Robinson to supply them two Lord ' s days . Accordingly , July 8 th > 1759 , he preached at Stone Yard for the first tkne . The church at

    this time consisted of thirty-four members , but so poor that all they could possibly propose co raise for his support was 3 / . 6 x . per quarter . Mr . Robinson preached on trial almost two years , during which time the church frequently solicited his acceptance of the pastoral oifioe , which he refused .

    partly on account of his youth and inexperience , and partly from some scruples of conscience about the rigidness of their disciplines at lcagth these matters were adjusted to his satisfaction , and upon the church ' s declaring far open commu ^ aion and protesting , several of them , that they would never agree to strict

    cornnvunion any more , June ri , 1761 * he accepted the church ' s call , and was ordained pastor over them , and from that time the church has amazingly in-

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1810, page 629, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1708/page/9/