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guisbed himself as an asse&or of the right of prkv ate judgment , ip the controversy which tQok place in those parts on the occasion of a
Mr . Joseph Rawson , of Notting ^ baro 5 being excluded from communion by his minister , Mr . Sloss , on account of some difference of opinion between them concerning the doctrine of the Trinity * .
[ Mr . Rogeraon married , during his residence here , a Miss Holliday , and thus became near . ly con&ected -with one of the principal families which at that time , were members of the
congregation , the Carrs of Dunston Hill * A sister of this lady had married the Rev . Thomas Walker , M . A , $ > M&ry eminent minister , ftit at CjOC 5 k « rmouth a fterwards al Durham , and lastly at Mill .
Hill Gh&pel in Leeds , where he died in the year 1764 , greatly lamented by aU who knew him * This congregation has the honour of reckoning among its members
in their early life , as well this gentlemen , as also his nephew * Mr * George Walker , F * R . S with whose merits the world at large ii so well , acquainted , and with whose brilliant talents as exercised
ffi the pulpit we have often been edified and delightedf * Mr * Thomas Walker published nothing but an animated Preface to a Sermon on Personal Religion , preached by
a Mr . George Bruce ^ formerly amrister at th-e Garth Heads in this town * smd afterwards at Dunbar in Scotlaad ; and a Sermon on the True Natme and Object of
• The whojleaffair is circumstantially reut < 3 TnT $ T . Taylot ' s masterly Defence of the Common Rights of Christans . + Fdir a spirited character of him by $ flWt WniacfceM * yfh $ knew him eut Nottingham , tec the Life of the latter .
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Christian Worshi ps preached at the opening of the jtfew Chapel at Wakcfield / pf which my father was afterwards the minister for rootei than thirty years . !
With Mr . Rogerson , and JMr . Wilson the congregation continued in great harmony till the death of the latter in the year 1 * 751 : about two years previous to which he had published a Tuneral Sermon on the death of his friend Mr . Jo .
seph Airey , who departed this life Feb . 2 . 1749 3 under the fol . lowing title— The Social Virtues of a Good Man represented and his happy End accounted for . '* In
it he gives a very high character of the deceased ; but , frbm all the accounts that are preserved of him , not higher than he was entitled to . He was the eider brother of Mr .
lhoraas Airey , with most of the members of whose targe family we have been , aud with some still are personally conuectecl , FJe left behind him no family ; his widow , Mrs . Ruth Airey ,, survivcd
him many years , and at her cteath in 1767 , bequeathed aOQ / . ihe yearly interest of which was to he applied , one half towards jhe minister ' s salary , and the other to the support of ihe charityschool .
When this useful institution was first established I have nut been able to ascertain ; but it is , probably , of very long standing : and it is hoped that the t > eaev * lent aud
pious intentions of our ance&tprs towards the successive generations of poor youith as they arise , \ yili continue to be respectfully ? fnd effectually imitated ,. .
On the death of Mr , Wilson * tbe Rev . Samuel Lowthion , thma of Penrith , was invited as Mr . Rogerson's assistant . He was
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Bistofg of the Hanover Square Congregation , Newcastle . 587
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1811, page 587, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2421/page/11/
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