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raised the prejudices of the congregation at Tiverton agai ' nst him , and rendered his situation quite uneasy . In 1731 , he , therefore , made an exchange of connections
with Mr . Henry Terry , * minister of the baptist church at Moreton Hampstead ; and he remained , for some time , in this retirement . After this he removed to
Bristol , became the minister of a small congregation of General l 3 aptists 1 on Callow-Hill , and opened a grammar-school on St . Michael ' s-Hill , in that city , which he kept
with great reputation for many years , to his death , in May , 1782 This seminary laid the foundation of his usefulness , reputation , and fortune . One of his pupils , a
respectable gentleman , in a work held in great estimation , bears an honourable and grateful testimony to his old tutor , both " as a learned
and good man ; " and informs us that "he had an excellent method of making the boys write letters to him on different subjects ; such as the beauty and dignity of truth , the obligations of a religious life , the
benefits of a good education , the mischief of idleness , &c . previously stating to them the chief arguments to be urged , and insisting on correctness in orthography and grarnmar / 't Mr . Foot ' s publications were
* Mr . Dun-sford , in his History of Tiverton , p . 378 , has given . his readers an anecdote , truly honourable to Mr . Terry . He was summoned tosubscribe , according to the requisition of the Act of Toleration , thirty-live of the Articles of the Church of England : but , though
his own sentiments were consonant to them , he refus-ed it ; beeause he would not be the means of abridging the liberty of other dissenting ministers in Tiverton , who could not conscientiously sign them . " f History of the West Indies , vol . iii . Lite , p . io .
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not many nor bulky . His first was a small piece , entitled A Prac tical Essay on Baptism . Hjs nL , x [ was a Tract on Education , in the -form of a letter to a friend , cal . eulated and designed to give the public the means of forming their
judgment on his abilities , as an instructor of youth , and on the merits and utility of the plan hc adopted . The occasion of his an . peariug a third time from the press was the part assigned to him in the ordination of Mr . John Sturch , at Newport , in the Isle of Wight , on the 21 st June , 1753 ; on which
occasion , he delivered and printed a discourse under the title of" A Charge . " His fourth publication was A Plain Account of the
Ordinance of Baptism ; in which all the Textsof the New Testament , relating to it , are produced , and the whole Doctrine concerning it drawn from them alone : in a
course of Letters to the Right Rev , Dr . Benjamin Hoadly , late Lord Bishop of Winchester . * ' This little work appeared in two distinct courses of Letters , one of which was published in 1756 , the other in 1758 , in Svo .: a second edition of both together , appeared in 1766 : and a third , with the author ' s last corrections and improvements , was edited by the writer of this biographical sketch , in 17875 sev - eral years after Mr . Foot ' s death / This tract has gone through several editions , and had ah
extensive circulation in America . At home , it has been treated with the attention and respect , which a work of merit claims . On its first publication , one of th «
* Some remaining copies are on sale , at Mr . D- Eaton ' s , No , 187 * Hig h-Hol « born .
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25 S Memoir of the Rev . William Foot .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1811, page 258, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2416/page/2/
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