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siderable abilities and great application . " He wrote a treatise on Gh ristiisiii . Confirmation , recommended by Mr . Baxter . When Ch arles II . granted an indulpuce in 1672 , the congregation built a "meeting-house near the Castle , and formed themselves intd a regular church on the congre ^ timial plan , under the pastorship i > f Mr . Peard , who , by the approbation of the people , chose for his-assistant Mr . John
Ham mer ,, the son of his former colleague- In 1692 Mr . Hanmer was chosen co-pastor ; and after the death of Mr . Peard , Mr . Hatiirier was desired to take up 6 n hifriself the whole of the
pastoral office , which he complied with . As the congregation wa ^ very large , Mr . Hannner was prevailed on to choose an assistant . The person fixed on was Mr . William Peard , son of the
former pastor . Some disputes which took place when Mr . Hanmer was incapable of ministerial duty , which disgusted his frieuds , occasioned their separation from the rfieeting at the Castle , and they built a very commodious chapel in the Cross Street *
" The first candidate for the ¶ , t £ . congregation was , a Mr . Birne . A blunder he made in the pulpit was the only cause of his being rejected . He was to preach a funeral sermon for an old gentleman well-known , which
drew a large auditory . The poor man ha ^ forgotten to note down where Jiis text was to he found . He told tfofcm ( wi ] th a disconcerted air ) that hfe believed the text was in the Proverbs , but he was not certain ; but the worJ ^ were
* o and m . This unlucky bluiider ^ ai the parent of a thousand others , Hi $ serixiori was a very ¦ ' ' '¦« •' ¦ .- ¦ ¦ : . - . ' "W :. ' . X ., . ' A
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chaos of crude divinity . Som * were chagrined , others disgusted ; and a third sort Werit avray j ^ ra * tified with something to rnalce 4 jest of ^ The preacher was too much mortified to risk a second
attempt , and the people that i * i vited him too rmich mortified-tb desire him . This Mr . Birne a £ * terwards settled at Hammer smith , and in his latter days made a worse blunder than at
first . He conformed to the establish * ment , and became so enamoured of his canonicals that he wore them all day long . But , poor man ! he was near seventy . When the Cross Street chapel was
completed , the congregation invited Mr . Ge&rge Boucher in the year 1706 to settle among them ; and Mr . Peard , of the Castle meetings dying , he was succeeded by Mr > John Powel , who before that had been settled at Blaftdford .., M&
Powel's orthodoxy as to the Trinity was unquestionable , l > ut in other matters suspected ^ as will appear from the following aiiec * dote . An old lady of Dorset * shire , who was then near 90 ^
boasted of her early attachment to Calvinism ; and to give an 4 & + stance of her zeul , said , that though Blaridford , where Mr Powel was then settled , % as within a very short distance from
her house , yet frvery Sunday fot ten years she rode to Wareham to . hear one Mr , Chirk * though it was at least twelve miles from where srhe lived . Upon being asked by a c ^ entlerii an what was
her fancy for putting herself to so much inconvenience , she replied very heartily , that she preferred ridijig through dirty roads ^ a km | and tedious way > inquest of Mr . Clbrk s gospel * to going over thll threshold u ( her door to hear
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Historical Account of tbe Dissenting Congregation , Barnstaple * 20 $
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1811, page 203, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2415/page/11/
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