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to ' Calvinlsts , from whom he had suffered so iiiuch affliction , ^ Qtiments which he hid from his dearest companions ' , friends , and fellow-sufferers .
^ Indeed , Mr , Thomas says much in his favour : That in tipoiper h ^ was rpild and peaceable ; that he was frequently the jdisssenger to the assejpabkes , that he was respected as a ministpV of the gospel ,, ' arid that hjs conduct was becoming * " Having been publicly Excluded , from a society in which he
Ijad dispensed the word / and ordinances of the gospel for more than twenty years , Mr . " \ V . found himself surrounded by a few fej ) pw sufferers , weeping on account of the cruelty of their C ^ i- istWn brethren ^ ^ vho would hot allow them the use of the n ^ eting house , and co . qciraending themselves to the guidance of 'ffrat God who they ttiQuglitever was and eyer will be ; benevblent to all . Encouraged by them , he soon contracted with ' XV . Philip of Heol 1 / Bos , four rniles from . Hengod , for the' use of his
dwjeljing-housp on th | 5 morning of every Lord ' s day / for public worshi p * He likewise at this time pfeaphed in the evening of the same day , once in every month , at Parl f in Egfwys-Ilan , the house f Mrs . Williams , whose worthy""family" respected him as long as h ^ liyed . He also preachecj once every month , on the afternoon of the Lord ' s day , at Mamhple , the house of
the above-mentioned Mr . Isaac , which pad for many years before been licenced for public worship . Frorri his services in this way , I believe he never 9 erivecf any emolument above ten pounds a year ; scarcel y enough to maiptaiu his horse . JJut he had the satisfaction of what he conceived to be doing good ^ tvhich alone must have been his ofeVect *
When he wa , s excluded from Hengqd , it is probable he knew no person in the world , save his few hearers , who coincided in sentiments with himself ; but about this time he learnt from one who was deriding their sect , that there was af Kristol , a minister of a similar way of thinking , whonj he found afterwards to be the Rey . Wm . Foot , a most exemplary character , with
whom he opened a correspondence , which proved a sofirce of comfort to his mind . Having a few persons more added to them , he and his small congregation resolved in the beginning of the year 1751 , to build a meeting-house at Craigfargod . No assistance for this purpose could be derived from their Calvinistic brethren about
them : but some assistance was indeed derived from their Paedobaptist brethren , as well as from the Hon / Capel Hanbury of Pon ty Pool , the above Mr , Foot , and Mr . Burroughs of London , who all sympathised with Mr . W . under the treatment he experienced . With sentitaents of sublime gratitude , he ad-
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118 Mev . Charles Winter *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1806, page 118, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1722/page/6/
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