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celebrated Dr . William Lloyd , then Bishop , of St . 4 | a |) b , -afterwards of Worcester , and the learned and famous jHeiny Dodwell , on the one side , and Messrs . Philip Henry ^ Jaints Owen , and our Jonathan Roberts , on the j ^ ther s ide . Ttie dispute began at two o ' clock in the afternooQ , apd end ^ dl between eight and nine , not at all to the discredit or
disadvantage of the dissenting cause , although the opposite side of the question was supported by two of its ablest and most zealous advocates . " Dr . Lloyd , " as Burnet says , € i was a great critic in the Greek and Latin Authors * but especially in the Scriptures , of the words and phrases of which he carried the nrpst perfect concordance in his memory , and had it the readiest about him . of all men he ever knew . He was , " h £ adds , " an exact historian , and the most punctual in chronology of all our divines . H £ had read the most books and with the best judgment , and had made the most copious extracts out of them of any of this age . He was so exact in every thing he set about , that he never gare over any part of study till he had quite mastered iu He ha 4
many volumes of materials upon all subjects ^ laid together in so distinct a method ^ that he could with very little Jabour write on any of them . He had more life in his imagination and a truer judgment than may seem consistent with such a laborious course of study . In his ministerial duties , " he says , •'' he waf
diligent beyond any about him , to whom he was an example ^ or rather a reproach , so few following his example . ** He adds , that , ¦ «* he was a holy , humble , and patient man , ever ready to do good * when be saw a proper opportunity . " We owe , I think , to Bishop Lloyd that improved and complete collection
of references to parallel texts , which appears in the margin of some of our bibles . As to Henry Dodwell , he too was a . very extraordinary man , of extensive learning , and of no small polemical fame . He had appeared against the Dissenters as early as the year 1615 , in apiece which was , I think , published
that year under the title of " Separation of Churches from episcopal Government , proved schistimatical ; " and whidh occasioned a controversy between him and Mr . Baxter . He was # superlatively hi g h churchman , and therefore we need not wonder at his being inimical to the Revolution , at which time he appeared among the noiyurors as one of their inost determined and able advocates . IJe had his oddities and
eccentricities in no small measure , and was reputed a lover of paradoxes . His zeal to exalt the power and dignity of the priesthood led him to advance an opinion which exposed him to much censure ; namely , that the soul was naturally mortal , and that immortality was only conferred at baptism by the gift of God , through the hands of one set of regularly ocdamed clergy .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 65, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/9/
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