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    some of his former hearers , till the indulgence in 1672 ; after which he preached publicly in a licensed house to a numerous auditory . He is represented as having been a man of peace , seldom meddling with controversy in his Sermons * . This was the foundation of the first society of

    Protestant Dissenters in Newcastle ; but whether this house was the Old Meeting-house in the Close , and whether Dr . Gilpin was his col * league or successor , cannot be

    completely ascertained * Dr , Gilpin however occurs very early as the pastor oi this congregation , which , on the Act of Toleration , was formed into a regular society , tinder the protection of the law ; as the cups still used in the com .

    xminion-service testify , which are marked u Church Plate , Di . Richard Gilpin , Pastor , 1693 . " This Dr . Gilpin had , on the Restoration , been offered the Bishopric of Carlisle , being at that time rector of Greystock in

    Cumberland ; but not being satisfied as to the authority of episcopal government , he , with great integrity and contempt of the world

    declined this high preferment ; and on the Act of Uniformity being ejected from his liviug , he sealed in Newcastle ; where he p-rac tistd physic with such reputation and success , that his biographer says , * all necessar y means were scarcely thought to have been used , if he had not been consulted /' Jn his ministerial capacity he is

    * Calamy , Vol . II . p . 500 , who says , * He died in the latter end of King Charles ' reign , and was burled in his own garden ; not be : i > g > 'Uowtid to be interred in what ivas ^ ajtea hoJyfcrottti& " This explains tf ) e . scri pture reference at the end of the epitaph .

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    said to ' have been an exccll ^ t preacher , both as to the piepa ra * tion and delivery of his sermons * of a serious temper , but cheerful and affable ; and of great pru , dc nee in keeping together a name , rous congregation of very different opinions and tempers . ' ' He pub . lisbed a large quarto volume on

    Satan s Temptations , which is full of the quaint divinity of the timeand a Funeral Sermon for a Mr . Timothy Manlove , a promising young minister , who was his assist . ant foi" a few years , but died in 1699 . Also a Preface to a Trea .

    trse of this joung man ' s dn the Im . mortality of the Soul published by the Doctor after his young friend's death ; which was afterwards

    animadverted upon by Henry Lay ton , Esq , an Essex gentleman , as laying such a stress upon the natural arguments as might seem to make it needless for life and

    immortality to have been-brought to light by the gospel * . Whether Dr . Gilpinjwl , either before or after , . ^ ny other assis * tants , cannot now be ascertained , but it appears prpbable that fa had ; as there still exists a

    manuscript entitled "J ± Speech delivered at Madam , Partis' in the year 1706 , by Mr . Thos . Hm&bwy , " $ & wardsafamQuspreacLierinXiOudon ; in which habitteriy in veig hsagainst the majority ^ nd the minister who would not admit him as a co-pastor , and , with great professions of a desire to preserve pface ^ spys every thing calculated effectually to , break it . This indeed beseem to ' have doifc , as a separation Jap-j vo&rsr to hav > t ^ fcen pl a ^ v ? " . tr r ; . w ' . y . . t- ,. „ -, tr ,,. / . ' i .- - ^*****

    " > 8 tt Arci >< teac 6 ri ^ faAbti ^^ torical : SirvjB " y ; < of - * e SpufceontrotOT ' Works ^ Vol . III . p . 1251

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    514 History of the Hanover Square Congregation . Newcastle

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1811, page 514, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2420/page/2/