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    dUj ^^ ^ ;^ it ; t ^ Mllege 9 A is classed to * v jDr , Calattiy atiioWgM frhe elected ' ministers . , . M '" < 0 » the death of MiVPeard in 1696 , M r * Hanmer beb ^ tne the pastor , arid was assisted by Mr , William PeaVd * sqo of the fortrier pastor . Mr . Hahnier

    soon / after this Was rendered alriiOsi incapable 6 f ministerial yvork . Dis pules arose with regard t 6 the salary * The contention of party , nursed ' , b $ r private jealousies" and Opposing iii- ' ter < ests , rose higher £ nd higher , till a separation was found necessary . On ; this event , which happened in 17059 f

    the congregation at the old meeting chose Mr . Peard as their sole mi- , mster * whilst the dissatisfied party built a commodious chapel for themselves . THe first candidate for the separate congregation was a Mr . Birne . Al

    blunder he made iti the pulpit was the only c&use of his being rejected * He w $ s to preach a funeral sermon for an old geiitleinan « well known * dre

    ^ Jhich w k large audience T&e poor man bad forgotten to note down where his text wais to be founds He told them ( with a most disconcerted ai | 0 , that he believed the text was in the Proverbs , but he was not certain . But the words were so and so . This

    unlucky blunder was the parent of a thousand more . His sermon was a very chaos of crude divinity- Some were chagrined , others disgusted , and a third sort gratified with something to jffl ^ ke a jest of * The preacher was too much mortified to risk a second attempt , and the people that ittyited hin ^ top . much iportified to

    de } sire > it .. ., - , , , , , TWs Mr . Birne afterwards settled at Hammersmith , and in his latter days made a worse blander than the first 5 he conformed to the JSstablishm ^ nt , and became so enamoured of his canonicals , that he wore them all day long . Bat , poor man , he was near seventy . *

    Mr « Boucher was chosen pastor of the sepai-ate congregation , who had be ? n a student at Mr . Haljett ' s academy at Exeter . ; - ., ¦ v .-Mir ; Hturner did not long survive the sqparation . On the death of Mr . n . mi lM ,,, 1 . > , n ., » ii » . *¦ , ' , 1 ., ni ¦ )! . ' .., < . . ¦ ¦/¦¦ \ , ' i -r ^ Mr . Badcock bad not this excuse .

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    Peaid * Mi % J 6 hn tr owel , who liaft bfefcn setttcicl tvitfr a eoti ^^ atioi ^ at Bla ^ d ^ ird ^ uccefederf hiW . Mr- ^ Po ^^ lV orthodoxy , as t ^ jftfe I ' riiiity , W ^ unquestionable , butiih ^ piftef miitto ^ g suspected , as will a |>^^ ar iro nV / tlie f&llovring anecdote --- ^ ti bid lad ^^ , pf Dorsetshire ^ who wsts theii near §( £ b ^ ted of her early attachment to-Calvinism , and togfve an iusrauce of h& zeal , said , that th 6 ugh Blaudford , wfiere Mr . Pdwel was ihen settl ^ dL was within a very short wa ^ f ftoih her house , yet every ^ uiiday , 1 ferteu yims * she rocje to Wareham to ii ^ ar Mh , ]

    Clerk , though it ws * s ht least twelve miles from where ihe lived . ^ t Jbb ^ being asked what was her fancy fqr putting hefeelf to ^ 6 much inconvenience , she replied ; \ &j heartil v ^^ that

    she preferred riding through iii ^ ty roads , a long &ntf ttilioiu ^ w ^ v iia q ueS : ' of Mr . CfeHk ^ gtitpW to g&in > Wt the threshold of her dobr m Rt ^ 'Pcxwel's tmb - ~ fi ;> / - - ' '/ - - ? yi

    The people kt Barnstapte had iibf , so much zealjj and Mr , JP 6 wel * s laiw went down for gospels ! The minister of the NeW Meet ^ pg ; dy mg , it was proposed to Mir ,

    Wairond , in the year 1 T 53 , to unite both congregations . This , through Wf * £ Walroud ' s prudence and inoderatim ^ was effected . Though educated at the Calvinistic academy at' Ottery , he maintained no predilection for the

    favourite topics of that academy , and generally warned the studesits against a bigoted attachment to them ; niid when a student from thence was sent to preach for Mr- Walrdhd , he charged him most earnestly not to introduce

    any thing of a disputable kind in his pulpit , adding , * I know your fellowstudents and their ignorant fondness for the Qunquarticular Controversy , which I hate , and which my congregation never heard a word about , and 1 never desire they should . **

    Mr . Walrond dying in the year 1769 , the united congregations iiivifed Mr Samuel Bkdcock to settle among them . He accordingly settled at Barnstaple in April , 1 7 ^ 0 *

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    Ok ' -the Plan qfa Grem ' Testameftio 91

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    On the Plan of a Greek Testam&ti * Sir , Deir . ' $ ' J 8 I 7 . YOUR very intelligent C 6 rte& $ on dent Griesbachianus ,, in hfe remarks ( in your Repository for JufV ^

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1818, page 91, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2473/page/11/