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    meats of the English and Latin lapguages N , and made considerable progress inwriting and arithmetic . Discovering a propensity to mechanical pursuits , his parent apprenticed him to a clock and watch rii € LKer ; but his master soon after

    died , and he gave up the pursuit of that business . It was about this period his mind was seriqusly impressed with the importance of religion , and this led him eventually to join himself a member of the Calvinistic Baptist Church at Panteg . That society soon perceived the

    modest merit and intellectual powers of yoking Jones , and recommended him as a . candidate for tke Christian ministry ^ o the Baptist Bristol Academy for the education of young men designed to be teachers oi the Christian religion , then under the direction of Dr . Caleb Evans and oyo other tutors .

    Here the subject of the present memoir was distingui hed no less by the suavitv of his manners , than his ardent pursuit pf literature ; thus securing the approbation of his-tutors , apd tne respect of his friends , during tjie period of four years . A few years prior to this time ,

    the library and museum of this academy Ibjfcd . been greatly enriched and onnaxnented b y the acquisition of the libraries , phUosophU a 1 pnd mathematical instruments , coins , pictures , and a great variety-of natural curiosities of the Rev . J ) r » Gifford and Dr . Ueweiin , both

    eminent scholars , lately . < J $

    nature -of the property , and protect it , requested the president , Dr . Evam , to concert measures for forming and printing a catalogue of the library , &c Dr . Evans fixed on Mr ! Jones , then a student * , to make tie catalogue ; which is a proof of the opinion Jie had of his ^ uai&c ^ tion to execute -a tadkthat reouir ^ &oth iiaowifdge-JHicl judgment in the arrangement wad execution . Mr .

    Jones * however , performed his taftk ; to the entire 9 aei $ faetton of ajl-parties , and was complimented with a mark of « he approbation of tbe Bttotol education Sodety on the occasion . Having £ nt * hed his m * d * es in the year 179 0 , he was invited to settle in Swansea with a society composed partly

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    qf persons w ! k > hadsepa ^ ajte ^ tftemaeh ^ on account of some dissention , from the old Meeting-House in High-street , and had erected a plaqeof WQrs&gin ^} ieBacblane , in the same town : it h scarcelynecessary to add , tiiat , rhis w ^ g a pa rticular Baptist Church ! Hipo , ** Jiifi entering on his labours here , he was highly

    approved of , and was ordained . pastor of die church , the first y . ear of his settlement ! The people had been ~ p much agitated , at least some of thena , in thefr conflict anH separationiirom the church in High-SLreit , as to require -wisdom , moderation s atid fri ^^ enc ^ to 55 alm their passions , ind mpderate t ^^ ir resentments ; and * . hus ta restore order and

    good w -11 a mongst av ethren ; The sub - ject . of this xxxemoir partly succeeded in thi ^ arduoas tas , k , ^ nd , enjoyed the satisfactipn of perceiving the appearance of an increasing arid ffourishine : Christian

    society , of which he > was the pastor ! But ail earthly enjoyments are uncertain , and our ( ond ? st hopes top often disappoint us ! This Mr . Jones was taught by very painful experience , in a subsequent period , during his connection with the Back-lane Church . ¦

    There Jka 4 bee © noUced : i ^/ th £ Pnndpality > several years before the period lam now reviewing , a spirit of inquiry amongst some of the leading- teachers in the Calvinistic 'Baptist connection , -which led many t ; o 4 <> ub £ the truth > of some po «

    j > al , ajr Qpjnipas , t ^ tpu ^ ^ st ^ e ^ iied pf essenual importance . Measures had been adopted to check so dangerous an innovation , but to no purpose . The spirit of free inquiry increased , in opposition to the decrees of the Annual Association ,

    njid tifce resolves of the quarterly meetings ! Mr . Jones was by no means an inattentive spectator to what was passing before him ; on the contrary , the < li $ pus $ iQi } s which had taken place , led fiim to reconsider his Calvinistic creed -by the test of scaupture ; and ^ bc £ * reful study pf the New Tejfcameru ; $ Ko $ ed iatal to bw orthodoxy 1 ! flf tius ^ dbange ,

    the . writer of the $ rceseri £ anttcle was soon after informed by lcttervlromMr . Jones And ap he hod too . n > uch reason to ap-|> rehond'that the p . cw situation in . which he ^ wa 8 placed , -would « tersunate ixua . rcnvoxal iroto . Swansea , he wished for advice how to act , it was concluded he

    « hould remain at feis pqtf a « d J ^ lt events . But it < was ¦ not long ba £ ovc& was suspected of a departure from the

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    $ 00 , Ohitnary . ^ Rev . Daniel Jx > n es .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1810, page 200, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2403/page/40/