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    ral denomination , and was settled in London , where he was a colleague with the celebrated Dr ,

    Foster , and consequently may be supposed a man of considerable talents . But he died young , and Dr . Foster preached and printed his funeral sermon .

    Caleb , the subject of this memoir , was early placed for education , under Dr . Doddrige , at Northampton , where , it is presumed , he became a convert to Psedobaptism : and I have in my possession several letters of his

    relating to that controversy , which he wrote to me on my application to him , when , in ihe early part of my ministry , 1 had some difficulties on that subject ; and they were of considerable use in determining my judgment and practice .

    On finishing his studies at Northampton , he was fixed with the congregation at Daventry , where he spent the rest of his life , though he had an invitation to remove ,

    from a congregation in London , which , if I mistake not , was that at Crosby-square . He was at first chosen as assistant to Mr . James

    Floyd , who not possessed of very acceptable talents as a preacher , ( though very eminent in prayer ) upon marrying a lady of considerable fortune , gave up the pastoral charge , to which Mr . Ash worth

    was then chosen , and he had a flourishing congregation , which after some years required $ . new gallery to be erected . He married a lady of

    Northampton , to whom he was attached during his studies ( I think of the name of Hemmings ) , with whom lie had but a slender fortune ; so that having a growing family , be soon found himself in those straits which many of hi * brethren havfr

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    experienced ; acircumstance which occasioned him to give his pupifi some prudential hints with respect to matrimonial connexions . 0 n «

    of the disadvantages which he , among many others , felt from a slender income , was his inability to purchase such books and commentaries , as a studious minister

    most needs and wishes to possess . In this difficulty , however , he had the happiness to find great relief , through the kindness of Dr . Watts , to whom he had been recommend .

    ed by his tutor , Dr . Doddridge , who had always expressed the warmest friendship for him * Of the truth of this anecdote I havt

    the pleasing proof in ^ i manuscript letter , ( among many in toy possession , of that excellent man , to Dr . Doddridge ) dated Oct . 18 , 1746 . In the P . S . the Dr . says ,

    ** I rejoice to hear -so well of Mr . Ashworth . I hope my lady and I have set him up with commentaries , for which he has given ik both thanks . "

    This circumstance leads roe t » mention a remarkable testimony of his respect to the memory of bis kind benefactor , for whose

    writings both he and his people had a very high esteem . Happening , after the Lord ' s Day afternoon service , to see , in a newspaper v afl account of the death of Dr . Watti ,

    he determined that very evening to give his people a discourse for the improvement of the event , at a lecture which he had been accustomed to hold at an ancient

    building in the town , called th § A bbey . Accordingly , short as tht interval was , which admitted oiuj of his writing some brief hints ,, w delivered a very interestin g < " *• course , of which a friend of D r ' Watts in London who heard *

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    694 Memoir of Dr . Caleb Ashworth .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1813, page 694, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2434/page/2/