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Memoir of the Rev . Joseph Fownes . [ From Dr Kippis ' s Introductory Preface ( o Mr . Fownes ' s " Inquiry into the Principles of Toleration . ? Third Edition . Shrewsbury . 1790 . ] THE Rev . Joseph Fownes was born at Andover , in Hampshire , in the month of July , 1715 . His
grandfather , George Fownes , M . A . who was a nonconformist minister of the Baptist persuasion , had resigned the living of High Wycombe , in Buckinghamshire , previously to the Restoration , and was a deep sufferer
at a time when it was thought j ustifiable to exercise severities on account of differences in religious opinions and worship . His father , who was of the same profession , preached successively at Bristol , Andover and Najlsworth ,
in Gloucestershire , at which last place hedied , in early , or , at least , in middle life . After his decease , his widow returned to Andover , together with her son , the subject of the present short narrative . Here he completed his grammatical education , under the
we of the Rev , Mr . Ball , the Presbyterian minister of the town , and a gentleman of considerable reputation to his day , for the extent of his know-Wge and the liberality of his sentiments . From Andover young Mr . Fownes was removed , in 1730 , to an
aca demy at Findern , in Derbyshire , tf whirfi Dr . Latham , a man of distinguished abilities and learning , was jhe principal tutor . At this seminary Mr . Fownes prosecuted his studies Jj fo such unremitting assiduity and to'igence , that when he was little
towe than twenty years of age , he ^ s judged to be sufficiently qualified ! L eiltering up . the work of the min " ^• Accordin gly , in 1735 , he was nted to the dissenting congrega-^ at < Cradley , near Stourbridge , in ^ * tershi re , which invitation he rm . 3 * ^ t * 1 * congregation he ^ nued to officiate till the year
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174 ft . On the 20 th of April , 1743 , he was ordained to the full discharge of the pastoral office . The gentlemen who assisted at his ordination , were , Dr . Latham , his former tutor , and Messrs . Kenrick , Witton , Holland
Carpenter and Mattock , all of them respectable ministers in that part of the kingdom ; and who , on this occasion , united in giving a very honourable testimony to Mr . Fownes ' s qualifications for the performance of the duties he had undertaken .
Such was the growing reputation of Mr . Fownes ' s abilities and character , that , in 1748 , he received an invitation to be pastor of the congregation in the High-Street , Shrewsbury , in connexion with the pious and excellent Mr . Job Orton , whose
valuable practical writings are so well known , and of whom particular notice is proposed to be taken , under the article of Dr . Philip Doddridge , in the new and enlarged edition of the Biographia Britannica . It was at Mr . Orton" * s particular solicitation that Mr .
rowncs removed to Shrewsbury ; and it was with great reluctance that his friends at Cradley and at Stourbiidge , where he had usually resided , consented to part with him . In 1754 , he married Miss , Mary Mason , daughter of Thomas Mason , Esq . ; an
honourable and happy connexion ; by which he became united in relationship , as he before was in friendship , with one of the principal families in Shrewsbury . I do not find that any thing was pjinted by him till the year 1 ?() O ,
when he took occasion to display his loyalty to the royal house of Brunswick , and his love to his country , by publishing * a sermon on the death of King George the Second . The title of his discourse was , ** The
Connexion between the Honour of Princes and the Happiness of their People . " In \ 77 % the general body of Protestaat Dissenting * ministers through
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IN 0 . CXIV . 3 JUNE , 1815 . [ Vol . X ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1815, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1761/page/1/
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