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Lit / tori ) Sir , September 17 , 1819-OBSER VING in your last Number [ p . 51 a ] -an Obituary of the ] ate Rev Josiah Townseud , of Ealand , it brought to my recollection a letter which 1 received from hrim some years
ago , containing-some account of his father . This narrative I designed to lay before the public , in a work which was then in course of publication ; but as I do not intend to pursue that work any further , 1 have sent it you for insertion , in case it suits the design of the Monthly Repository .
W . W . "The Rev . Meredith Townsend was the eldest son of the Rev , John Townsend , a Baptist minister , who was well-known to many as having been a school-master and an
occasional preacher in London , and who died June S , 1766 , aged 81 . Concerning him it is particularly worthy of remark , that , after he settled in London , he became member of a Baptist society there ; ; uid that , for having communicated occasionally with the Independent society at
Stoke-Newington , ( then under the care of the Rev . Samuel Snashall , ) he was censured , if not expelled , 4 iy the church , as walking disorderly . " His eldest son , the subject of the present memoirs , was born at Pool , in Dorsetshire , August 23 , 1715 , O . S ., and was about seven years old when his father removed to London . It
was ( he writes ) in the 18 th year of his age , that some very deep impressions were made on his mind by hearmg a sermon from a young man ; which impressions continued , though with great variations . He was baptized at eighteen by Mr . Wilson , tfiinister to the society in which Mr . Abraham Booth lately laboured . But , when he had studied the controversy about baptism more particularly , the Jesuit of his inquiries was , that he became a Paedo-baptist \ in conse-^ ence of which all his own children , Opting one which died the day
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after its birth , were baptized in their infancy . « Mr . M . Townsend ' s thoughts were , on occasion of a fit of illness , strongly turned to the ministry . Having pursued grammar-learning for some time , he was placed under the care of the Rev . Mr . Eanies , September 4 , 1738 . W hen he came out into
the ministry , he preached occasionally in and about London , and became assistant in a school of great repute at Peckham , in Surry . " On February 5 , 1741— % he was chosen assistant ( his own words are ) * to the amiable Watts and the excellent Price ; ' whom he never afterwards mentioned but
in terms of the highest respect . But after having spent four years in that situation , being much discouraged by the little success which seemed to attend his labours , he left London , and went to Hull , June 2 , 1746 , upon an invitation from fhe congregation
at Dagger-Lane Meeting , to be assistant to their pastor Mr . Wildboar . On July 20 following , he was chosen to this service , and accepted of it ; and on May 10 , 1749 , he was ordaiued co-pastor with Mr . Wildboar , as appears from the certificate of the
ministers concerned in the solemnity . While at Hull he was prevailed upon to print a few poems , the strain of which is very serious and spiritual 5 but he did not prefix his name to them . He also published a sermon there from Isa . xxvii . 8 , on occasion
of the defeat of the rebels ; which he dedicated to the congregation in Berry Street , London . And it may not be improper to add in this place , that he afterwards published a sermon from Rev . ii . 10 ,, which was
preached Sept , 27 , 1761 , being the LordVday after the coronation of their present Majesties . On May 10 , 1748 , he was married to Mary , youngest daughter of John and Rebecca Basnett , of Peckham , a devout person , and one who loved God with all her heart ; with whom he Hired happily for almost twenty-eight years .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1819, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1779/page/1/
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