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    Memoir of the late Dr . Coyan .

    nPHOMAS COGAN , of whom a JL portrait faces the present volume * was born at Rowel ! , in Northampton- ? shire , in 1736 , of a respectable Dis-. senting family , who had been lo » g seated in that place . His father was

    an apothecary of considerable reputation , who possessed a great fondness for metaphysical studies , and .. ^ em- , ployed his leisure in puWishing in several pamphlets the result of his

    inquiries . The subject ofthis me * moir was placed under thje . qare . of Mr ., afterwards Dr . Aifciq , whp & $ ? % a flourishing school at J&ijbvyorth r f iij

    Leicestershire ; * anfl « the puptf always Leicestershire ; * aa the pupil alwa ys spoke of the tutor with ^ ffopifctysits respect , and expressed regvet ^ Vafc h # had not longer enjoyed hi ; # j || j ? abls instructions . He wad acc #$$ ohiecl : t

    speak with peculiar ple&sijre / tff th § familiar theological lectures wW * $ h ; the preceptor \ tf as in the habit pf d ^ iyer-r ing to his scholars on the Sunday evening ; declaring , that he , aj , w sa #$ looked forward to them ' with delight *

    and , though educated in the strictest Calvinism , owed to them his first religious impressions . At fourteen years of age he left school , and passed the two succeeding years under his father ' s roof . His views were now turned towards the

    Christian ministry , and he entered the Dissenting Academy , at Mile End , of which Dr . Conder was the Divinity Tutor ; but being dissatisfied with the conduct of the institution , he , with one Or t \ vo others , removed to the academy at Hoxton . JLittle is now known , even in his

    mmM mn . t I , - i __ . nj . r - . i - ¦ — i - r ¦ - ¦ ' - — i ' i . . M n ¦¦ " ¦ -i ji * An interesting memoir of Dr . Aikin , from the pen of Mr . Turner , was inserted ill our Vlllth volume , pp . 101—172 .

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    own family , of this period of his life . From some of his manuscript sermons it appears , that he was in Holland , in 1759 , officiating as a preacher : it is conjectured , that he was assistant to the Rev . Benjamin Sowden , minister of the English Church , oh the Dutch establishment , at Rotterdam .

    . ' . We next trace lilm by his papers to Southampton , where he seems to have fexercised his ministry in the years frm ;^ nd 1765 . The high tone of ppJriioriK held by the congregation

    , gid not accord with his own state of fflj mV On original sin and some other points , Jie vyaisnjore than susp ^ te 4 of heresy , / tbe consequence vfaslJiis witndriawment . a

    IJe J ^ tura . ed to Holland ,, with the J ? WP ? £ 9 ' beil ^ jf ^ W * Minister in one of the Ehglisfi JdhVrches estabiislied in' * thatr country , and for a wftsi ^ eraBle : period : filled this situa-^ SP W ) $ )?? S h ^ credit ; ' but for reasons Which iancipt at t h ^ s 'd istance o ^ time be iTully ascertained , he at lenfftlit

    detefmined to « quit the profession of divinity lor that of medicine . He was subject to pulmonary complaints , which might alarm him for the

    consequences of continuing to exert himself as a public speaker . He had , always , besides , a strong inclination to the medical profession , and whilst he was minister at Southampton had walked the hospitals in London . The

    change was certainly not owing to any dereliction of faith or decay of religious feeling . Before he commenced his new studies he paid a short visit to England , where , after delivering a few serlnons with no small reputation , he

    dropt the character of a preacher . Returning to Holland , he catered himself of the University of Ley den *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1819, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1768/page/1/