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BIOGRAPHY.
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A SKETCH OF THE LIPE OF THE LATE REV . LAWRENCE HOLDEN . JFor the Monthly Repository np * HE Subject of this sketch was born at Bolton on the Moors JL in Lancashire , in the year 1710 . He received his
education for the ministry at Warrington . He preached first at Whitworth , where he married the daughter of Mr . A . Whitworth , by whom he had a son and two daughters . Leaving Whitworth , he preached for sometime at Doncaster , where he married his secopd wife ^ the daughter of Mr . John Slack , o £ Long Elmsel , by whom he had eight children . Soon after his
second marriage ^ he was chosen pastor of a congregation of Protestant Dissenters , meeting at Maldon in Essex , with whom he continued as theii * minister nearly forty years . Daring this period , Mr . Holtfen published a volume of Sermons , which met with general acceptance . On this occasion ^ he received many testimonies of respect from some of the first characters in
the Established Church . In the early part of his life ^ Dissenting ministers were much invited into the establishment , and frequently with considerable offers of preferment . Archbishop Seeker , to whom he was well known , made very flattering proposals to him ^ which were respectfully declined . His circumstances at this time , with an increasing family rendered this no inconsiderable temptation ; but he preferred
his connection with the Dissenters ^ with all its temporal disadvantages , to that of a church supported by large emoluments , and great earthly splendour and power—a church which ,, although in one of its articles it asserts the sufficiency of the Scriptures , continues the imposition of unscriptural articles and creeds on its officiating ministers , and on all its members .
It may be here observed ) that although Dissenters meeting on the great principles of religious liberty , and the right of private judgment , may consistently admit of difference of opinion , although uniting in worship , the members of the Established Church meet on the principle of strict uniformity in faith and
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tio . XL ] NOTEMBER ; [ Vol . I .
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY OF Theology and General Literature .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1806, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1730/page/1/
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