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Art . IV . —The History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches , tsfc , [ Continued from p . 414 . J * TT ^ HE successive ministers at Crosby JL Square , a Presbyterian church , now extinct , furnish us with a series of interesting biographical articles . The following relates to a worthy man little known : i
** John Hodge , D . D . a learned and respectable minister of the Presbyterian denomination , of whose life it is not in our power to lay before the reader many particulars . He received his academical education at Taunton , under the learned Mr . Henry Grove , for whom he ever afterwards retained an affectionate
remembrance . The place where he spent the first years of his ministry was , we believe , at Deal , in the county of Kent . From thence he removed to Glocester , where he continued to labour with great reputation , for a considerable period . Or . Grosvenor being disabled for public service , which made it expedient for him to resign the pastoral office in 1749 , Dr , Hodge
accepted an invitation to succeed him at Crosby-Square . At the time of his settlement in that place , the congregation was in a very low state . And notwithstanding his pulpit composures were very sensible and devotional , and his manner of delivery
just , though not striking , he was not so happy as to raise the church ; but as the old members died , or families removed , it continued sinking . At length , the infirmities of advanced life , obliged him to resign the pastoral relation , about the year 1761 or 176 ' 2 . After this , he lived for some time in retirement , preaching tmly occasionally , till he was removed by death , August 18 , 176 * 7 . As an acknowledgment of the benefits he received during the course of his academical studies , he bequeathed to the academy of Taunton , his valuable library of books . Upon the dissolution of that seminary , they were removed toKxeter . ** Dr . Hodge was a learned and respectable man , of moderate sentiments , and an
excellent preacher . He favoured tiie republic of letters with a valuable set of discourses , in one volume , octavo , upon the Evidences of Christianity . They are written in a comprehensive , judicious , and nervous manner , arul have ~ been highly spoken of by good judges . He also
published several single sermons : as one upon New-year ' s day , at St . Thomas ' s , Southwark—another at the morning- lecture ^ Little St . Helen ' s , August 1 , 1751 —and a third occasioned by , the death of the Rev . John Mason , author of the treatise on self-knowledge , preached at
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Chestyunt , Herts , Feb . 20 , 1753 , tw Hodge also drew up an account tf jj * May ' s Life , prefixed to his sermons . 1755 ' —Pp . 354 , 355 . In the memoirs of Mr . Benjamin Robinson , minister of the Presb yterian congregation , Little St . Heten s ^ whkh no longer exists , we have an account of a controversy once esteemed of importance by the Nonconformists :
" In 17 O 9 , he published , «• A Review of the case of Liturgies , and their imposition ; in answer to Mr . Bennet ' s Biref History of pre-composed set Forms of Prayer , and his Discourse of joint Prayer . " To this Mr . Bennet wrote a reply , which was answeYed by Mr . Robinson , and produced a second letter frdm Mr . Bennet .
This was a controversy of some importance , and called forth no inconsiderable talent . Some sentiments advanced by Mr . Bennet , were considered not only contrary to the general sense of Dissenters , but as a shoefc upon the reason of mankind . It is no wonder , therefore , that his book met with
animadversion . Two pamphlets by way of answer to it , were written by Mr . John Horsley , ancestor to the late bishop of that name . It was also severely reprehended by some of bis own brethren , particularly by Dr . Wainewright , Mr . Ollyffe , and I > r . John Edwards , in his «< Christian Preacher . "—Pp . 37 $ , 380 .
few names in the Dissenting Fasti are more respectable than that of Mr . Samuel Jones . \ Ve are obliged to Mr . Wilson for a sketch of his life in a note affixed to the memoir of one of his pupils , Mr . JZdward Godivin , the grandfather of Mr . William Godwin , the celebrated author , now living .
" Mr . Samuel Jones , who was of Welsh extraction , received his education in Holland , under the learned Perizonius . He kept his academy first at Glocester , from whence , in 1712 , he removed to Tewkesbury , where , we believe , he was also pastor of a congregation . Of his method of
education , a very interesting account may be seen , in a letter written in 1711 , by Mr . ( afterwards Archbishop ) Seeker , then one of Mr . Jones ' s pupils , to the celebrated Dr . Isaac Watts . * Mr . Seeker speaks highly of the advantages he enjoyed at
this seminary , which he calls " an extraordinary place of education . " Mr . Jones obliged his pupils to rise at five o ' clock every morning , and always to speak Latin , except when they mixed with the family * — «* We pass our time very agreeably ( say * * " See Gibbons ' * Memoir * of Watt * p . 346 . "
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346 Review . —TVtlsons Dissenting Churches .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1816, page 546, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2456/page/46/
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