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Poor Jewry Lane . He was educated in Calvinism , and was first settled over a congregation professing that system at Abingdon , in Berkshire . Whilst here , he published three practical
Discourses to young persons , which he afterwards suppressed , Mr . Wilson says , " on account of their evangelical tendency , " meaning , we suppose , on account of their inculcating the doctrines of John Calvin , which Dr .
Benson in the maturity of his understanding renounced as odious corruptions of the gospel . Mr . Wilson charges Dr . Benson ' s " Account of Calvin ' s causing Servetus
to be burned" with exaggeration . vv e think the charge groundless . The death of the Unitarian martyr isbrought home by a chajn of unquestionable evidence to the Genevan dogmatist ,
whose language concerning the murdered Spaniard , after the tragical deed , convicts him of a barbarous ness of heart which is rare even in the annals of persecution . It is due to Mr . Wil-* o n to state that he avows in measured terms his disapprobation of Calvin ' s conduct in this affair .
In delineating Dr . Benson ' s eharacter ; the historian is betrayed by his zeal for his own system of faith into reflections , resembling those which deform the picture which he has given of Dr . Lardner .
Ehenezer Radcliff [ Radcliffe , ] who changed the style of Reverend for that of Esquire , was living when Mr . Wilson drew up the account of him , but died shorty after . We inserted ( V . 707—711 ) an interesting Memoir of him from the pen of a near friend . His first settlement as a minister is
there said to have been at Boston , not at Stamford , as stated by Mr . Wilson . Mr . Radcliffe * s Sermon on the refusal of the repeal of the Test Act in 1772 , is said by oar Author , with apparent acquiescence , to have been " considered at the time much too violent : " but
what publication against injustice and oppression ever escaped this accusation ? It has been humourously said that the verb reform has no present tense ; and the efforts of reformers have been always pronounced by such a § are wise in their generation to be ill-timed and imprudent . Richard Price , Z ) . J ) . was afternoon [ or evening ??] . preacher at Poor Jewry
***• i % See Rfciiiftw , of Morgan ' s . Life of Price * Mon . Repos . X , 605 . ^
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Lane at the same time that he was pastor at Newin ^ ton Green : he continued here till his acceptance of the pastorship , in 1770 , at the Gravel Pit , Hackney . John Colder , 2 > . X > . is the last name on this distinguished list . We extract Mr . Wilson ' s account of him :
Upon the resignation of I > r . Price , the afternoon service in Poor Jewry Lane was undertaken by Dr . Calder . ThU gentleman ( who is still living ) is a native of Scotland , and received bis education in the
University of Aberdeen , from whence he received his degree . He was settled some time with a congregation at Alnwick , -in Northumberland , where he married a lady of considerable fortune . From thence , he
removed to London , and succeeded Dr . Price as already mentioned . After the dissolution of the society in Poor Jewry Lane , Dr . Calder retired to Hammersmith , where he devoted himself chiefly to his literary labours . Since that time he has not undertaken any stated work in the ministry , and he is now a member of Mr . Belsham ' s congregation m Essex Street / ' *
Dr . Calder is since dead . He left a valuable library , chiefly numismatic , which was not long ago sold , together with the late Dr . Towers ' s . by public auction . For a short period , L ) r . Calder was Librarian of Dr . \ Villiams * s Library , Red-Cross Street .
This brief notice may possibly induce some of his surviving friends to furnish a complete memoir . The latter end of Poor Jewry Lane Meeting-House exhibits a melancholy instance of the mutability of all that is human and of the degeneracy of
institutions which depend upon the talent * of successive individuals . After having been shut up a short time it was reopened by a new people , termed a chapel , furnished with an organ and a Common Prayer-Book , and the other attractive et cetera of Calvinistic
Methodists , the name itself of Poor Jewry Lane giving place to that of Jewry Street . Our author manifestly droops with his subject ; his account of tne con- *
verted place of worshi p is scarcely above the style of the Obituary of the Evangelical Magazine , He takes apparently as much pleasure in the minute biography of obscure , however virtuous , preachers as of Lardner and Benson . A short memoir is given in a note of Henry Mead * who " was very
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1816, page 345, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2453/page/37/
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