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Learned and Unlearned Minister si 4-59
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on that occasion by ray grand , father , Dr . John Taylor , is the following passage : — " There is one thing more which I cannot forbear to mention ; Mr . Finch was one of the first pupils that entered into the first dissenting academy that was erected after ihc Restauration , by the reverend and learned Mr . Frankland , and he survived , not only almost all the 300 gentlemen that in the space of 30 years were educated in that academy , but moreover , outlived all the academies in
( he north , which succeeded Mr . FranklandV . —I have at this time in ray possession a cane , vvhich was formerly worn by the Rev . Peter Finch ; it w ^ s his father ' s cane : and as the initials H . F .
are engraven upon its silver head , it affords presumptive evidence that Mr . Turner is right in calling Mr . Henry Finch ' ( who was ejected from the vicarage of Walton in
Lancashire , ) the father of Mr . P . Finch . If any of your correspondents can give me any information respecting the birth or education of Josiah Chorley above mentioned , they will confer an obligation on , Sir ,
Your humble servant , JOHN TAYLOR .
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learned and Unlearned Minis - ters .
Sir , I perceive in Mr . Belsham ' s Letter to Lord Sidmouth , frequent
use of the terms ignorant and illiterate preachers ; but as these terms are not defined , I am at a loss to know what persons are comprehended under this language . % ideas upon this subject may ne very different from those of Mr . Kehham ; I am persuaded , that
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he will render an acceptable service to the readers of his Letter , by affording them an explicit explanation of his terms . The i gnorant and illiterate preachers and teachers , he considers as usurpers , and , would evidently exclude them from the pulpit : but ,
if those terms convey the same meaning to his mind as they do to mine , I am afraid that many chapels , churches and meetings would lose their officiating ministers . For example , I mean by
illiterate persons , persons unacquainted , as the term implies , with letters : but letters is a very general term , and must be confined to the subject to which they relate ; and I should not call a
person illiterate , because he knew nothing of the Arabic or Hiridostanee languages , unless the question referred to a knowledge of those languages . The truths of the Christian religion are delivered
in two languages , the Hebrew and the Gree , k and the knowledge of these languages makes , in my opinion the distinction between a learned and an , illiterate preacher or teacher . Perhaps this is Mr , Belsham ' s meaning also : and if
not , I should be very glad to know what his is . You will observe , that by my description of the two parties , the criterion is easy , by which they are to be distinguished We need only put a Hebrew Bible and Greek Testament into their
hands , and desire them to read a chapter in each to us ; the learned will do it , the illiterate will coru fess his inability .
An illiterate may be a very ignorant preacher , and a , very ignorant preacher may understand Hebrew and Greek to perfection , Our term ignorant preacher , re
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1811, page 459, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2419/page/11/
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