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Answers to " The Inquirer . No . in / 1 34 #
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The name of the prelate to whom it was presented is not mentioned . The Archbishop of Canterbury at that time was Dr . Potter , the learned author of the " Grecian Antiquities /* It haslately been announced to the public that the Editor was the Rev . John Jones , of Alconbury , in Huntingdonshire ; after of Shir pal 5 in Herts . He was also the Editor of the * Appeal to Reason and Candour * , " There is an interesting letter of this gentleman , expressive of his liberality and piety , to Dr . Dcddridge , dated 174-1 ^ from Rip ton Abbots , Hunting ^ donshire-f-. T » II .
It may gratify T . C . A . of Chatham to be informed , that Dr . Wood * of Norwich , was settled in the former part of his life , at Swetttng , in Suffolk . He went there in 1732 , and was ordained pastor 1733 * He united popular talents with great seriousness . In 1747 , he removed to Norwich , and died there Not . 7 , 1767 . Some time after his settlement in that city , he was complimented with the- degree of Doctor of Divinity by one of the Scotch Universities . He was a gentleman of great benevolence , and extensive influence , the greatest
part of his life , especially after his removal to Norwich , in the counties of Suffolk and Norfolk . He was the esteemed friend of Dr . Doddridge , from whom there are eleven letters addressed to him in Mr . Stedman ' s publication of his correspondence . He died Nov . 2 , 1767 , in the 57 th year of his age * His funeral sermon was preached by the Rev . Thomas Howe , of Yarmouth , from Ueb . xi . 4 . This discourse affords no biographical account of Dr . Wood , and characterises him only in the general strain of eulogium , as an ami . able man , a public and respectable character , and an excellent minister ; who never appeared to act with so much spirit as when doing the most generous and disinterested things : " . the pleasure of his heart , " says Mr . Howe , " was his reward . * ' We are also told that he used frequently to call the gospel , A divine discipline to
FORM US to a HEAVENLY TEMPER and X . TFE . Few as are these particulars , they may , perhaps , be au unseasonable anticipation of a fuller memoir from the pen of Mr . Newton , Dr . Woods Son-in-law . T . P . S . Dr . Wood plirsued his academical studies with Mr . Thoma * Cook , of Framlingham , in Suffolk , under his uncle Mr . Samuel Wood , of Lavenham , in the same county ; who kept a considerable boarding school , and trained these two pupils for the pulpit . III .
B . J . of Bristol will probably have seen in number XV . of the Repository , ( vol- n . p- 168 . ) Pictel , corrected as a misprint , and the . * A Short memoir of Bp . Law : re-printed with notes , p . 7 . f Letters to and from Dr . Doddridge , " by Mr . Stedman , p . 3 * 41 . The late Mr . Thompson ' s MSS . Collections .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1807, page 349, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2382/page/9/
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