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Some Account of th&Rev . Martin Tomkins .
" A , - : : v "VT does not occur to my recollection Jt ever to have seen in print any memorial of the above gentleman , beyond a brief note in the Life of Mr . Daniel Neal , prefixed to Dr .
Toulinin's edition of the €€ History of the Puritans , " a work , at present , in but few hands . Unfortunately , it is not in my power to supply this deficiency to any material extent ; but as Mr . Tomkins was one of the earliest of the Dissenting ministers in the last century , who opposed the commonlythe
received notions res ^ ectiog doetrine of the Trinity , and made a noble stand against the imposition of unscriptural tests , even to the loss of his station as the pastor of aparticular congregation , it may not be improper
to embalm his name in the ** Jvionthl y Repositorj , " although it be oh | y by a few hints , which / perhaps , some of your readers may be ^ able to render more perfect .
Mr . Tomkins wa ^ bor n some time towards the latter end of the reign of King Charles II ., but at what place the writer of this is not iii % rmed f JHt ^ wds a contemporary \^ itH ^^ M& i $ f ; $$ p same standing as Neal aiia ^ lordlier ,
with both of whom , in early life , lie contracted an intimate acquaintance . After pursuing a preparatory course of studies in his own country , Mr . Tomkins removed , in 1609 , to the University of Utrecht , then one of the
most celebrated in Europe . He was accompanied thither by Mr . Lardiierj and there they found Mr . Neal , who was somewhat their senior in age . The Professors of the University at that tittie vitere Gravius , DVUries and Bartnan , names of ho small celebrity in the learned worlid . tinder these
accomplished tutors , qyV tiiree students made a Suitable proficiency j anid after speeding a « J ) ort time a ( l ^ eyden , returned to their own courttry ia 1703 , bringing back witli them Proper testimonials to their learning a *^^ p « i * tiifcnt $ -
TO thftefe friends all settled ia London or the neighbourhood . Mr .
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Tomkins , after preaching some time occasionally , was chosen pastor of a respectable congregation at Stofce-Newington , in the county of Middlesex , in succession to the Rev . Joseph
Cavf thorn , who had been ejectejd in 166 & , at Stamford , in Lincolnshire , and died at Stoke-Newington , March 9 , 1707 , having been several years minister of that society . Amongst the members of this religious community , were the families of the
Fteetwoods and the Hartopps , both well known in the annals of "jo ' ui country . These , with- a fei ^ ^ ther ^ ^ exceliept persons , fra < l b « een tlife support of tjfee interest during t ^ e late season of p ^ rsecution-, and had siiffere < i ia their
ftirtuniesr byr # iie » a ^ bltranly levied upojp ^ ^ v ^ fi ^^^ ifbi ^ l fbi * the crime of sf 3 « embring peaceably to worship Go ^ t ^ &afo l $ to th ^ dictates of their consciences .
For , the space of ten years th ^ kt Mr . Tomkins sustained the pastoral relation to this society , he had the satisfacticin : [ of eiijoyirig the ^ esteem of his peojiie . They highly valued hiis ' ifcboUrs in the pulpit , where , as a skilful minister , he rightly divided the word of truth , dealing to each his portion in due season . &is behaviour' dui < rf
the pulpit was also truly exemplary , so as to cortiiYiand universal respect , and he had before him a prospect of much cortifoit and usefulness for many year * . But the fairest hopes may b ^ suddenly blasted bjr ofte \ of those events over which the mind " arid will
of the individual possess no controul . An occasional interchange of labours with another minister produced a ( lame in the congregation at Stoke-Newingtoti , which could only be extinguished by rending asunder the
connexion Which subsisted between Mr . Tomkins and his people . The occasion of it w ^ s tlii ^ : t Mr . Tomkins had been in the habit sometimes of exchanging pulpits with Mr John Asty , minister of an Independent congregation in Rop ^ Maker * s Alley , near Moorfields . Upoii
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1819, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1778/page/1/
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