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Memoir of the Rev . Thomas Pyle , 31 . A . { from Richards ' s History of Lynn , pp . 1012—1023 J OF the birth-place and the early part of the life of the Rev . Thomas Pylk , whose name is still mentioned with veneration by the few
who remember him as a preacher , we have not been able to obtain any account , ^ o rapid is the neglect or the forgetfulness of oral tradition ! From his epitaph \ ve leara indeed that he was born in 1674 . About the
year l 698 > he was examined for ordination , at Norwich , by the celebrated and truly honest William Whiston , at that time chaplain to Bishop Moore , who has stated in the interesting Memoirs of his Life , that Dr . Sydal and Mr . Pyle were the best scholars among the many candidates whom it was his office to examine .
It is probable that he was ordained upon the title of one of the curacies ofSt Margaret ' s parish , as he married , in 1701 , a-Mrs . Mary Rolfe , of an affluent and respectable family in Lynn , and in the same year he was
appointed by the corporation to be minister-or preacher of St . Nicholas * Chapel . He published some political sermons in the years 1706 , 1707 , and especiall y in the year 17 15 . In these discourses he vindicated and enforced
ftose principles to which we are indebted for the expulsion of the Stuarts , and for the elevation of the Brunswick family to the throne . About Jhe same period lie became generally jnown as the author of a very useful Paraph rase on the Historical Books
of the Old Testament , and another oa the Acts , the Epistles and the { fevel ^ tiou of the NeW Testament . *** m afterwards he enlisted himself as a writer in the Barigorian Conroveray , ' and was a strenuous and a advocate of the civil an < J reli-S ** prib jetples of Bp . Boadly . He ¦
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appears to have been on terms of particular friendship with some of the greatest and best men in the Church of England , such as Dr , Sam . Clarke , Mr . Jackson , of Leicester , Dr . Sykes , Bp . Hoadly , Dr . Herring , afterwards
Archbishop of Canterbury ; and equally so with some eminent dissenting ministers , particularly Dr . Sam . Chandler and Mr . Kastrick , of Lynn . Many years after his death his youngest son , the Rev . Philip Pyle , publisher ! several volumes of his "
Sermons on plain and practical Subjects /" His writings are characterized by a perspicuity and manly sense , rather than by any elevation of style , or by a graceful negligence ; and yet in the delivery of his sermons , so impressive was his elocution , that both in the
metropolis and in the country , he was one of the most admired preachers of his time . The following lines were sent to him on his sermon preacher ! at Lincoln > Inn , May 4 th , 1785 , on Gen . iii . 19 .
\ What sounds are these ! What energy divine ! What master-strokes in every precept shine While from thy lips the warm expression breaks , What heart bat melteth as the preacher
speaks ! Thy voice is nature , and tliy diction clear , It strikes like irmsic on the listening * ear . — Vain foolish man to murmur at thy fate , The bounteous hand of heaven still leaves
thee great ; Still makes thee first of brings here below , Still gives thee more of happiness titan
woe . To lazy indolence this world may seem A barren wilderness ; an idle dream ; Thistles and bramble s , to the slothful eye , But roses to the hand of industry . * Tis sordid av a rice- with her sneaking
train , Ambition , who torments herself in vain- ^ TIT unnumberM lusts that prey upon the mind , Fix the primeval < ui is e on humankind . * . ••
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No . CXIIL ] MAY , 1815 . [ Vol . X .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1815, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1760/page/1/
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