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Whiskc , but that was considered as of no' moment to one , who would soon obtain much higher preferment , and the family of Hastings could not endure the idea of his owing his first permanent establishment to any one but
themselves . Mr . Lmdsey ' s predecessor at Piddletown , Dr . Dawney , had lived there in considerable splendour . He had opened a bowling-green , and kept a public day once or twice in the week , on which occasions he
entertained tl ^ e neighbouring gentlemen . His successor , although no enemy to cheerful society or innocent amusement on proper occasions , did not think a life like this exactly suited to a minister of the
gospel . He set out therefore , on a quite different plan ; devoting his time principally to the study of the scriptures and to the good of the people committed to his care . This decision formed so
immediately , was surely very extraordinary in a young man accustomed to move in the first circles ; whose
own natural disposition was not unaspiring , and whose refined taste and polished manners gave him a high relish for elegant society . But his whole heart and jmind was set in conformity to the
elevated sentiment of his favourite Milton , in his Samson Agonistes , fc to leant and do what might be Xlhristian virtue * ; " and this was the talisman which preserved him from the contagion of vanity oxworldly ambition , in a soil wheie they arc usually most prolific . at
puring hi ^ retirement Piddletown , Mr . Lindsey ' s first doubts KM ? m to have arisen on the subject of the trinity , and as he tells us in the last chapter of his Apology , " compelled him to a closer
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study of the scriptures with regard to it * . " He proceeds in that interesting work to state the result , and to enumerate some of the ar * . guments by which he was prevailed upon ai that time to continue in the church , and by which , foe
says , he brought himself in time " to remain tolerably quiet and
easy in it . " A few yea re after this , in August l ? 60 , he married Miss Hannah Elsworth , daughter in law of the late eminent
Archdeacon Blackburne , of Richmond , in Yorkshire ; and in the year 1763 , the living of Catterick becoming vacant by the death of my father , the Rev . Jeremiah . Harrison , Mr . L . made interest
to obtain an exchange , not with any view to greater pecuniary advantage , for Piddletown was in every respect preferable , but that he might be nearer the relations of Mrs . Lindsey , and especially that he might be near Archdeacon Blackburne . Here it was , in the
following year , that the writer of this imperfect Memoir , had first the privilege of being introduced to the subject of it . Ypung at the ti-me , uninformed and accus ^ tomed to the society of those among my general acquaintance
who form their estimate of right and wrong in the scale of com * monly received opinion , I was little qualified to comprehend , or duly to appreciate the full excellence of such a character ;
yet 1 was exceedingly interested by the amiable , unassuming disposition of my new friend , by the patience with which lje endeavoured to set right every mistake or prejudice , by his total disregard of every personal
indulgence , and by his unwearied so- * liciuidc to make all around Jjjn *
1 * Apology , p . 22 S '
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Memoir of the late Rev . Thetxphilus Lindsey , by Mrs . Cappe . 639
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1808, page 639, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2399/page/3/
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