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prune of life , and left a widow , with , I think , four small children , two sons and . two daughters . David was the eldest of the sons , and but about four years old when he lost his father . The widow not long after married a very worthless man , who soon wasted the property Which the father of the orphans had left , and brought the family to poverty and distress . A relation took the two little
toys , and kept them till they were fit to go * out to service , in which situation they afterwards spent some years , and ^ r ere much re spected in the families where they lived , and among their neighbours , for the sobriety , steadiness , and strict propriety of their deportment .
They both became seriously and religiously disposed , and at an early age joined the church of which their father had been a member , and their grandfather the very worthy minister and pastor for nearly half a century * . * * ' David was soon thought to have
some promising gifts for the ministry , and his brethren encouraged him to exercise them . He was pot then above 30 years of age , if so much . His public exercises gave satisfaction , and he was encouraged to persevere . He continued to preach some years as a candidate or probationer ^ with increasing acceptance .
* *• The grandfather ' s name was Da-Tid Thomas * He was a native of Cardiganshire , but had removed to Pembrokeshire in early life , where he became a member of the Baptist Church at Kilvowyr , then under the pastoral care of Samuel J ones , a man of much
eminence in his time among the Welsh Baptists . At what time he joined this church I am not able to say : it was probably about the year 1 7 ^ 0 , or very soon after ; for it appears that he was a preacher in that church as early as 1725 * and continued such to the d ?* y of his death
¦ which happened in 1773 , when he was about the age of 74 , and had been in the inmistry 48 years . He -was one of the most respectable of the Welsh Baptist ministers of his day , and his meirfoYy is stilt dear to many in that country . A
funeral sermon for him was preached by the late venerable Hugh Evans of Bristol , at the Weish Annual Association , in 1773 * which was held at Bcthesda in TViorunouthshirc , a few wee ! s after hfe cte . ith ; which sermorf is in prinC
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His life and conversation were tunv « v sally allowed to be irreproachable accT exemplary , and there was a prospect of his becoming in time no less eminent among the ministers of that country than his honoured grandfather had been ... But about the year 1799 , something like a kind of jealousy of him appeared among the preachers , of which that church haa several , some of whom were pastors and . the rest assistants or candidates . It was
feared , perhaps , that the hopeful grandson" of the Jate venerated old pastor wa $ in a fair way of soon rivalling , if not but- » stripping , them in the affection or estimation of the church : however that ; might bej they , chose to proceed on another ground—that of heterodoxy . It
\ jras whispered about that he was bev come unsound in the faith , and was actually leaning to Arminianism , if not to something still worse , if worse can b ef . ^ The principles p f the General , Baptists were then beginning to spread
in that country , and he had attended at some of the meetings of that party , an 4 was observed to be on friendly terms with their ministers . This was deemed a sufficient ground to proceed upon against him . He was accordingly called to account at one of the cfeurch meeb *
ings . The _ poipts » on which he vyas chiefly questioned were those of general redemption , and the limited duration of fixture misery or punishment , tife modestly replied , that he had not yet imbibed those principles , or fully made up his mind 111 respect to them ; bat
frankly owned , th ^ t they did not then ap * pear to him altogether in tke hateful arid frightful light in which they seemed to view them- Some other points might be proposed at the time , \ yhich I dp not at present distinctly recollect ; but hit
answers on every occasion were to th # same , effect . The meeting , apparentl y ^ was amicably concluded ; no fault w ^ fr imputed to him , and not a hint drop * erf any intention to proceed to his expulsion . Had such an intention been en *
tertained , that was the time when it ought to have been proposed and determined , ft was reported that the minister who took the lead in that day ' s business , stopt as he was going home , in
f Arminianism was long viewed as the Very chief of devils , among most iif tke religious people of Wabs ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1806, page 272, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1724/page/48/
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