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where he "was colleague with Mr . JDawson above mentioned , and died 1758 . If . Thomas Dixojt . This most worthy and amiable man was the son of Dr . Thomas Dixpn ; ( who , or his father ) had directed the academy at Whiteliaven , in which Benson , Rotheram received their education . However this may have been ) he
succeeded Mr . Bourn at Bolton itt 1719 , and died about 1 ? S 3 . The soq , after having passed through his academical studies , probably settled previously in
some other place ; but in 17 ' 5 l he succeeded Mr , Buck , his father ' s successor , at Bolton ; and died in 1754 * , at the age of 33 , non annis sed lemde plenuS ) says the inscription on his monunpeiit
in Bolton chapel . He was a diligent and impartial student of the Scriptures , and a fearless expositor of what appeared to him to be
their genuine sense * He observed the too much neglected practice of expounding the Scriptures in the course of his public services . The writer of these brief notices
possesses the MS * copy of his Notes on the N , T . in two 4 to . volumes , of a not very intelligible short hand . Possessing so congenial a spirit , he wa $ of course an $ * i timute friend of his neighbour ,
( Mr , Seddon , of Manchester ; who , in the year 1766 , published from his papers ( wi ^ h a spirited preface of hi ? Qytin ) an excellent piece of Scripture criticism , entitled , " The
Sovereignty of tfce Divide Administration vindicated , pr a Rati-OAftl Account" ( without the intervention of the Devil or of Demons ) " of oil * blessed . Saviour ' s Tempiation , of the Possessed at Caper-
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naum and of the Demoniacs at Gadara /* His account of the temptation more nearly coincides with that of Mr , Cappe , or with ' Geron in the late Nos . of the Repository , than with Mr . Farmer ' s , 44 whose tract ,, had Mr . Dixon lived to see it / ' says the editor , " might have rendered his own performance more perfect ; " but he at the same time observes , ( p . 20 . n . ) u that his friend ' s notion of an allegorical representation of real temptations seems , however , preferable to an entirely visionary scene , more honourable to our
Lord himself , and more exemplary to bis followers /' 18 . Tatlock Mather Succeeded Mr * Reynold Tetlow ^ ( one of the pupils of Mr . Frankland , ) who died Dec . 5 , 1745 .
1759 - 19 * Georgs Buxto& . Settled at Buxton ; died about 179— . 20 . Jeremiah RubspEi-t . A gentleman of this name , probably a son of the above , published a spirited defence of the late Mr . Hextal , of Northampton , when attacked by bigotied zealots .
21 . JohnWiche Joined the General Baptists , whom he served as a minister at Maids tone . He was a zealous Unitarian , and was particularly noticed by . Dr . Lardner ; from whose manuscript he published ^ about the year 1790 , Four Discourses qn the several Schemes ( Athanasian , Arian , and Nasareah or Unitarian ) respecting the Person of Christ . 22 . — Stacy , Settled at Deptford .
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H& 6 List qf&r * Rotheram ' s Pup ih *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1810, page 326, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2406/page/6/
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