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Memoir of the late Rev . John Prior Estlin , JLL . D . f 11 HE Dissentiug congregations a have to lament the loss of a faithful servant of the churches , in the person of Dr . Kstlin , of Bristol , of whom a short memorial cannot but be acceptable .
JOHN PRIOR ESTLIN was born at Hi nek ley , in Leicestershire , April 9 th , 1747 - He received his school education under the auspices of his maternal uncle , the Rev . John Prior , Vicar of Ashby de la Zouch } and his earliest views in lffe seemed to
be directed to the Church of England , towards which , and its religious services , notwithstanding- the wide difference with regard to doctrinal points in the sentiments he afterwards entertained , he always felt a certain degree of respect and affection . From school , where he imbibed a taste for classical
literature , he was , however , sent by his father to the Dissenting Academy of Warrington , where he was entered in the year 1764 ; and the course of studies he there went through determined his choice towards a different
persuasion . The divinity chair of this seminary was filled at that time by the Rev . Dr . Aikin , for whose ' character he ever entertained the highest respect and affection ; and whose sentiments in morals and religion he for the most part adopted . Having finished Iris academical course with credit to
himself and satisfaction to his tutors , he was invited to the congregation of Lewin ' s Mead , Bristol , as colleague to the Rev . Thomas Wright , in the room of the Rev . William Richards , aj * d he entered on his ministerial
services in January 1771 . With this congregation , a numerous , respectable and affectionate one , he continued till those who had sat as children under his early ministry , had themselves become heads of fa-
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milies , or , perhaps , had left those families to fill up their places in the religious assemblies ; and Dr . Estlin often spoke with much feeling of the numerous friends he had followed to the grave during his ministration , always adding with energy , that he should ever bless God for the
circumstance , that he had not known an instance of a person who regularly attended the worship of God in that place , who had not hope iu his death , and of whom he had not the brightest hepes . In his funeral sermon on the death of his co-pastor , in the year 1797 , he says , ** Two hundred times have i
already been called to the discharge of a similar melancholy duty . " Soon after settling at Bristol , Dr . Estlin opened a school , which became a very flourishing one , and many of his pupils did credit to themselves and to their tutor by their proficiency in classical learning , which they exhibited when entered in the
Universities , to which many of them wer £ removed . Dr . Kstliii treated his pupils with great liberality ; and ( heir sense of - ' the happy hours they liad spent under his tuition was expressed
by an annual meeting , which waj held on his birth-day , by the gentlemen who had been under his care , at which the Dr . was always a delighted and delighting guest . At one of these
meetings they presented him with the degree of Doctor of Laws , which they had procured for him without his knowledge from -the University of Glasgow . It was usual with Dr . Estlin , on these occasions , to address his former pupiis in a short speech , and that which he deliveied on his last birth-day , when lie completed his seventieth year , which conveyed an intimation that this might probably be their hist meeting , was peculiarly impressive . Mis school and congregation did not , however , so
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1817, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2469/page/1/
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