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merwt « -He- "f ^ in ^ fe . ^ elo . iredi ^ y his people , and held in high esteem hy Messrs . Grove , Arnoxy , and others * who endeavoured by their preaching and example to promote free inquiry and genuine Christianity . . Joseph , the youngest son , was brought up to the trade of a tucker or dresser of
woollen goods . Honour , the second wife of Joseph Cornish * was mother to the writer of these memoir ? ., She closed her life in the year . 1769 % . Her husband , though unfortunate in business , through the unhappy disputes with America , was respected by all who knew him , and received
substantial tokens of esteem towards the close of an upright life , peaceably ended in 1776 . Joseph Cornish was the youngest of seven children , six of whona , born at three successive births , were soon removed . €€ Joseph Cornish always appeared fond of reading" an 4 early inclined to the ministry . His first classical in- * structor was Mr . Patch , a clergyman . Anothpr of bis masters was a Mr , Glass , educated at Westminster School . He resided near Tauaton on a small
fortune , and was a strict Churchman , but . scrupled ministerial conformity which requires the solemn declaration of being moved by the Holy Ghost . In 1765 , Dr . ( then Mr . ) Toulmin
taking pupils , Joseph Cornish was most happily placed under his tuition till Sept . I 767 . when , by his recommendation , he gained admission into Mr . Coward ' s Academy at Hoxton . The deeply-learned Dr . Savage , a
favourite ' ni early life of Dr . Watts , was the Divinity Tutor . His sentiments were Galvkristic , without the least mixture of bigotry . Those distinguished scholars and divines , Dr . Kippis and Dr . flees , most ablv jdirectecl the students
i-p flthjer branches of lit ^ r ^ une . ; J 3 y thqifi and the trustees , he wa $ jrecowr mended as fit for the ministry in 1772 . M * . Hokten , his dans-fallow , almost ever since pastor of fcfce society
at Te » l ^ rden , in : Kent * parsed' his examinatimt at the same tirne ^\ itty him , Jt rarely happens th&jt ; w £ ; p > tontenciag tfei * gt&iip \ y $ vk foflfitftof M $ e so long cqiitiiiuert . Jyjtfn t ^ . « $# * £ m ^ i « By Dr , Amo ry * ,., & £ Vaster
m < k iifepif 9 t ufc ^ msmtem pkp -m wmm * m mtiwl ^ tei ^ g Jm M& a ^ n ^ i cal ico ^ ir ^ e ^ a , Ud hy hirri : atpongly recomnaeoaed to accept of an invita *
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tibn Jte -a small society at Golytoo Devon , thefc D * . roulmin began his minis try * and was also Very desirous of seeing the place supplied by his pupil . Whilst at Hoxton , he had occasionally preached at Epsom , from whence he received a unanimous
invitation . The same had been received fronvCoIyton . Its nearness to Taun - tofl , where his aged father was still living , made that place upon the whole more eligible . On the resignation of that learned , divine and po ^ pular preacher , Mr . Farmer , he was proposed by several members of
Walters' Hall congregation to succeed Mr * Farmer ae afternoon preacher . Dr . Furneaux , who was then , together with Dr . Priory the Sunday Evening Lecturer , was desired to make
the proposal , and he kindly urged J . Oomish'g . compliance with the wishes of those who had approved his services . Dr . Furneaux ' s approbation was no small honour to one who had
but ju&t finished his academical course . J . Cornish must have been vain to a high decree if he had not felt his great inferiority to Mr . Farmer , and also to Mn Sowden , of Rotterdam , * on whom many bad fixed their choice ,
and a competition with him was positively declined . Dr * Addington had been mentioned , but being , beyond the middle period of life , he declined appearing" as a candidate , which Mr , Soivden also had done : but the friends
of Mr . Sowden were determined to propose him , hoping he might be prevailed on to accept an invitation . Joseph Cornish reluctantly consented to be nominated with this popular divine , win * obtained u large majority but the number of highly respeetalii ^ persons who appeared in behalf of
J ^ Cornish was gratifying , " On the 1 itU of Muy > 177 ^ , *» e was ordained in Dr . Toulmin ' s Meeting at TauntojK No ordination hud takea place in that town for many -ydflw-A mimerous audience ¦ attended , atid
twenty ministers were-presfent . Dr . Tow ! ncrim ^ reochedj i * M& . ' > i Kiddle delivered an exoeltent c * t » atge y and the devotional eer ^ vieed wer ^ conducted by
M * . : 0 ifibrd and Mr . Jilterd , A ^ ttenian of the EstalilidhTtoent said he w ^ nld give many ^ guMda ^ fof a cop / ;? a ; j iu l y / + ^ i i v it [ 5 .: wq- -- >' - \_^ - ¦¦ ; ,. -SetfNtauMkjpMJXtV . !•
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618 Memoir of the late Hevfjfyqeph Cornish , t > f Colyion .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1823, page 618, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1790/page/2/
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