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A very eminent banker at Derby and York . lie bought a large estate mar Thirsk , where lie built a fine house called Wood End . He died Oct . 1810 . 117 . John Wadsworth , M .
Sheffield . Sou of the Rev . Field Sylvester Wadsworth , a high Jy respected dissenting minister at Sheffield ^ who died while he was young . From Warrinoton he removed to Edinburgh , where , having passed
through the usual course of medical education , ( it is not certain , but probably ) he graduated , and came to settle as a physician in his native town * , he died in April , 3 735 . 118 . John Prior Esttin D .
Hinckley . This estimable scholar and divine was originally intended for a clergyman , most of his connections having been members of the established church ; but a short residence at Warrineton soon
altered his views , and he determined to take up his lot with the nonconformists- He continued a
student five years and a half , and in February , 3771 , settled at Lewin ' s Mead , Bristol , as assistant to the Rev . Thomas Wright . On Mr . WrisbL ^ a resignation , and his
being called to the pastoral office in 1778 , lie was ordained . Mis part of the service , the whole of which was . published , was much admired for its elegance , and far
the manly frankness of spirit which it breathes . A similar spirit ap . pears to have dictated the sermon he preached on the " Causes of the Inefficacy of Public Instruction , " at the ordination of his , alas ! too short-lived friend and neighbour , the Rev- D . B . Jardinc , «> f Bath : two volumes of whose
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% & 6 Students Educated at the Warrington Academy .
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excellent sermons he had the melancholy office of preparing for the public , and prefixing to them a short memoir of their lamented author . Mis other publications are , " Evidences of Revealed
Religion , and particularly Christianity , with reference to a pampMet , called , The Age of Reason , " of which Dr . Priest ley , in his answer co the same fallacious work , speaks in the highest terms , and considers himself honoured by
having had a share in the author ' s education . " The Nature and Causes of Atheism , " to which are annexed some very judicious remarks on Dupuis * Origine de tous les Cultes . An Apology for the Sabbath / ' with reference to the
controversies started by Wakefield and Evanson , though not a direct answer to either . iC The Union of Wisdom and Integrity recom-5
mended , ' in a discourse to the West of England Unitarian Society . A Fast Day Prayer , published in connection with a sermon . • - " - ¦ » - ^ - * -w » — » — - ^ b * --- — . » m — ¦»— - ^^ v « - »» - » a ¦»— % * ^^ m ^/ ^^ ^ 4 i M . & ^^ m M *
_ by his colleague , the Rev . John Rowe . A volume of sermons , in which several of the above articles are included . Lastly , Discourses on Universal Restitution . " of w * -r v ^ * m v ^ * * ¦ ¦ v _^ » \ j * 4 « & ¦ . vx . ot . BV V * Vt v / ¦ * V a
which , being ad hue sub judice , it might perhaps be premature to give the opinion which the heart , at least , would dictate ; for , surely , whatever may become ot the argument of the book , one can hardly fail to love the author . * f
f May it be permitted to suggest to him , that he has not noticed among universal is t s George Walker ( see an excellent note in his sermon on the Rich Man , Vol . i . p . 30 , 7 . ) Petitpierre , Purves of Edinburgh ; Winchester , Vidler , Wright , and that whole dais of modern Universalists ; he might have added his own excellent tutor , D r -
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1814, page 266, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2440/page/10/
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