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ga jjS ^ l ^ jSjrrtMP ^?^^^ Og 9 t is f ^ fi | i | y # 0 nn ^ tk > a ^ ai Leipes- ^ t $ r ^ ill prosecuting his private studies with diUgeace , till April , I 7733 when he first settled at .
Nottingham , adjoint minister with tl * e feared and eloquent Mrl George Walker , of the cangregatitm of Protes&HU Dissenters , assembling in the chapel at the High Pavement in that town . From
hence lit 1777 , he removed to Walthafftstow , where he became pastor -of the congregation of Dissents in that place which had eiypyecfejlhe J © iirt services of Mr . F&i naer at * &Mr * Radclift ' e . With
t % | S -congre ^ eioii ^ however , his cpnn $ ciiot \ lastedonly two years ; ati ^ r foe ^ ifievei' afterwards-entered inta the pastoral gelation , though he continued to preach occasionally , & > t& # * md of life .
. In ilje year 17 S& Mr . Simpson mawied Mfs # Frances Watson , reijfct of—^ - ^ Wattson , Esq . of Gottinghatifj ^ near Hull , and only daughter anrd heiress of Mr .
Thora ^ W 6 pd b © rae of Gainsborough , to- ^ fjhom feeifras previously related . By this * lady He obtained a respectabl « fortune . They lived most happily together , first at Cottingham , then at Little Wood-house ,
lHiaf Leed $ , and lastly , at Leeds , till the lattertn < J of the year 17 *^ w feeitske was taken from him by d ^ tbr , i The tie whkh bound him to his
fot ^ oer residence bei ng broken , Mr . Siraptton removed in 1 7 J > 1 , toi : ^ Mh y ; wh&to be fesidied ^ useful , h ^^^^ : JB ^' tt ^ peptBdl f till tho d # y of his death , Wednesday , August 18 , 18 # 2 ^ &mht Stet of that
month * he was interred , at his own desire > iti tht ^ s ame vault whicli be had ^ repai ^ fl Upward s of three artd twenty years before
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fbt Mrs « Si ^ afpson , Mt , J ^ ivfe pe < S forgriing the funeral ntesj a _ . l $ . ^ and melancholy office of friend- , ship .
Mr . Simpson has left on&ddti ^ Mr . John Woodhouse Simp ^ oB of Rearsb y ^ in Leicestershire * : ¦ The talents of Mr ^ Simpson ft « a preacher , if not of the highest class , appear to have been tHtfjt respectable ; but as an author he
has obtained no mean rank amongst those that ha ^ re illtiitraied iihtf defended the Christian r ^ ligtpr ^ His first work , which &ppe& £$ si soon after his retirement iroiristfiiti
nisterial engag ^ wyeti ^ Wasy ^^ Ah Essay to shew that Chrisliamt ^ is best conveyed in ths Historic Form , ' displaying both ingenuity ^ and ability . A still mofd impfor * lf
tant publication Was The Vfe ^ of the Internal and Pres ^ mptiy ^ Evidences of Christianity /* ' 6 fwhich an anonymous p&rre&p ' fcii ^ dent in the Bath QhfdbJelte , ^ fC to be a liberal and enligh t ^^ d . i clergyman , pronounces i 4 that rt is a most useful , ^ mast ^ l ^ ^ df excellent performance ^ ana ^ ti |^ be ranked , in meri t ^ nd v ^ i tie ^ with the moral demonstrations of el
the verity of our hol y ffcitfr ^ a ^ borated by the deep eruditiditSiOT ' rare sagacity of Jeremy T ^ yXp ^ and John Locke , Dr * LardAci ^ , t Samuel Clarke , and Arctwtea&oh Paley . " * OF the ^ ESsHy * %# ' * the Language of Scrip ^ ur ^ 1 $$ ^ ample Review in our last Vol » n 1 ^ ;
( ppi 600 ; 677 , 79 «) f wilt ? * & !*« enabled the r * adi ! r to jija ^ ^ hirb ^ elf t spmb bt tfie poaitidps lii ^ be unsound , some of the criticisms tiot soiftcientty authori 2 ^ d y some of th ^^^ ncltiw otiijr tob fi ^ irti ^ fl ^ ^
? Mr . Hunter ' s Sermon . Note , pp . \ j ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1814, page 83, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2437/page/11/
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