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Presbyier by Dr . Wfaitgife , then Archbishop of Canterbury ^ who forbade him meddling witfe the interpretation of Moses * types , the boobs of Canticles , Daniel and tfre Revelation * which he thought
himself , as the Bishop did , were not so useful for him to study as some other scriptures . ' Lives ^ p . 452 . Though our divine had now receiyed . the Holy Ghost , if lie
might rely on the solemn declaration of his ordaining prelate , yet his friend and biographer assures us , that u he remained some years without any change
of heart , or sensible werk of grace xipon his soul . ' He ci preached learnedly , as they called it , and lived vainly ; " yet he abhorred 4 < debauchery and debauched
companions , ** though he u gave himself to hunting , bowling , and shooting , mpre than became a miniver of the Gospel ; and sometimes he would swear faith and troth , and , in his passion , greater blasphemies . " His conduct appears , indeed , to have , been very eccentric . One in *
stance is mentioned of a trick which he played off upon two country squires , who were at variance , plundering the fish ponds of one and the park of the other ,. and then transposing the plunder , without reserving any thing but the fun to himself . From the
peril of this adventure he was extricated only by his strength and agility * overpowering the park - keeper , who attempted to sei $ e him , ancj leaving the man if tied to a tree till next morning . '* Mas - ter JtothwelPs conversion is
described as having been effected in the following manner *—u He was playing at bowles
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amongst some papists and vain gentlemen , upon a Saturday , somewhere about Rochdale , in Lancashire . There domes into the green to him bnfc Master Midgley , ^ grave and godly minister of Rochdale . —He took him
aside and fell into a large commendation of him . * At length told him what pity it vms that such a man as he should be a companion for papists , ancl that
upon a Saturday , when he should be preparing for the Sabbath-day . Master Rothwell slighted liis words , and cheeked him for his meddling *'—yet 4 c the next- . day he went to Rochdale church to
hear Master Mi dgley- —thanked him for his reproof ^ and besoug ht his direction and prayers , for he fra $ in a miserable condition of nature ; and under the spirit of bondage
he lay for a time > till afterwards , and By Master' Midgley ' s hands also , he received the spirit of adoption , wherewith he was so sealed that he never lost his as . surahce to his dying day . " Id .
p . 453 . It is not ; easy to understand , exactly , what spiritual influence one of these divines supposed himself to communicate and the other tareceive . Master R . however , from this time commenced
a Whitfieldy and u was worthily called the Apostle of the North , " able 4 C when he preached the law to make men tremble , yea sometimes to cry out ijn the church—opening the depths of Satan and deceitfulness of the
heattj so that he was called the Rotigk Hewer ¦/ ' He now also 46 dispersed his temporal estate among his friends , and lived of the - " ' N . ¦ gospel * - Becoming a 6 nconformist and ** expecting daily
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7 ft Account of ^ Master M 6 tt&eU 9 tfo Exorritf .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1811, page 76, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2413/page/12/
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