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He continued through his whole life the lii ' Lthly esteemed minister of a small but respectable congregation , in the village of Gatacre ; but maintained an extensive
friendly intercourse with the numerous budy of dissenters in the neighbouring town of Liverpool , and gen ^ rallj with his brethren throughout the county ; particularly with Mr . 'Mather , Mr . Seddon , of Warrington , and Messrs . Holland of Bolt ; in and Ormskirk ,
He-published an Address on the Nature of . Ordination , delivered at Manchester , on the ordination , of Mr . Go rev and at Liverpool , on . that of MrTayloiyin 17 ? 0 ; a Charge at ibe ordination of Messrs . Vates
and Anderson , at Liverpool , 1 ? 77 5 and a Sermon on Heiig ous Zeal preached at the ordination of Mr . Hankinson at Warrington . 1780
all of them bivathing an enlarged and liberal pint , and highly anU mated . T > esi < i < s these , he was connected With Mr . Seddon and
Mr . Philip Holland , in drawing up the Forms of Prayer , well known by the name of the Liverpool Liturgy . It is understood that each composed one service , and then sent it for correction and
amendment to his colleagues . From papers in the possession of the writer t ,, f these notes it apprars that the third service is 3 VJr . Holland ' * . . At the house of this tiiend , at Bolton , Mr . Godwin died suddenly , of an apoplectic fir , in Au > . 1 / 87 . 37 * Samuel Devis , { London ? 38 . Josfph Westray . 1 ? 42 . 39 . John StDDON . Probably a relation of Mr , John Seddon ( Mo 3 ) , but of what fa * ftv&y * or when or where boru ^ the
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writer of these notes has no present means of ascertaining . This infor . mation with many particulars of their much-valued teacher , may probably be supplied by some of the persons still surv iving , who
have notj it is presumed , even yet forgotten " with \ vhat judgment , fidelity , and giace , he represented to them the important truths of religion , and the use which he made of these truths ^ to excite their love of virtue , and to en *
gage them to the practice oi it : still less the example of a ft-iendly , upright ^ engaging conversation which appeared in his life /' It is probable , that , on his return from Glasgow , ( whither , on leaving Kendal , he accompanied his friend Godwin to joia his former fellow students , Holland and
Andrews , who had gone thither the year preceding , and where they were all four the favourite pupils and associates of Professors Hutchesoji anil Leechman ) he settled immediately ai Warrington ; but whether as the assistant or
successor of Mr . Owen , ( who succeeded his father ^ Dr . Charles Owen , as minister there ) you will perhaps be informed on better authority . How acceptable and useful he was to the congregation whom he served is well known to those who
have resided for any length of time in Warrington ; and may be learned by others from a perusal of the excellent discourse on the occasion of his death ^ contained in the second volume of Mr .
Philip Holland ' s Sermons , p . 197 ~* 2 ^ 4 , where his character is drawn wiih all the simplicity of truth and nature , while the colouring is studiously k « pt down by the delicacy of a friendship jealous of being carried too far on so inteiv
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42 S List of Dr . Rotjteram ' s Pupils .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1810, page 428, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2408/page/4/
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