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Memoir of the Life of the Rev . Caleb Flenmw , D . D *
Sir , IF you judge the following account of the life of Dr . Caleb Fleming proper for insertion in your valuable Work , it is quite at your service ; With some necessary corrections and additions it is a copy of what t had
sent me some years since by a nephew of the Doctors , the late Mr . J . Slipper , an amiable and excellent character , who for many years filled a place of trust in the Bank . About the same time Mr . Slipper sent me a number of the Doctor ' s MS . Sermons , which , with many excellent practical instructions , contain the substance of his theological opinions .
L . HOLDEN . The Rev . Caleb Fleming was born at Nottingham , Noveqiber 4 , 1698 * His father was a hosier in that town f his mother an excellent woman of the Buxton family , of Chelmerton , ' near Buxton Wells , in the
Peak of Derbyshire . Her father was lord of the manor ; the writings of the family estate bearing date from William the Conqueror . Whep . about sixteen years old , he became a favourite of the Rev . Mr . John Hardy , who kept an academy at Nottingham :
who taught him theology ^ logic , ethics , natural philosophy , astronomy , geometry and trigonometry . Arithmetic and algebra he had become acquainted with by his own attention .
His early education had been upon the Calvinistie scheme : but Mr . Hai"dy opened his mind , pointing put to him the propriety of forming a . judgment of Christianity from the Hew-Testament writings , before which his
edueatioji principles soon fell to the ground . Having , in the year \ 1 < 2 J > left Nottingham , and fixed bi » residence in London , he became acquainted with me Rev . John Holt , one of the
professors of Warrington College , virtyo put inn upon reading Terence and the ttre < & Testafentj afid in Vtsi
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he had the assistance of a learned Jew in acquiring a knowledge of the ^ Hebrew . About this time the benevolent and
worthy Dr . W / Harris told him , that lie was authorized to promise that he should be provided for , if he would write for the state minister , ujjpu some particular subject , and defend the measures of administration j when he assured hint that he coilld not , but
would sooner cht off his right hand . This gave great . offence , and lie waa left struggling with a load of distress * He had quitted business ; had a wife and four or five children uiiprovided for , arid no resources . Uader Ihese
circumstances he sat down to consider whether he could subscribe or hot , in order to accept of Lazenby , a living in Cumberland , offered him by the Rev . Dr . John Thomas , late bishop of
Winchester , but could not . Finding the difficulty of subscribing rise upon him with greater strength , he wrote back his resignation , or that he must decline the offer . AKith thid the
bishop was by no means pleased , but gave him a polite and friendly letter upon it . Upon this some of his nonconforming friends , becoming acquainted with the bishop ' s kind intention , urged him to make trial of pulpit services among them . The Rev . Mp » Catcot , of Oakingham , in Berks , iiivited him to Kis pulpit for the : first trial ; he complied , and Was appi ^ Y ^ d of . Mr . Catcot thanking him for his !
services in the midst of thfe b ^ Rle * After this he preached seVe ^ iiui 0 & at Guildford , also at Sydenham , Uxbridgeaiifl Oortiiig , mft ^^ theHe ^ Mr . M <^ e , ^ l ^« b ^ i ^ he . U ^ bn the death of Mr . ^ UhjrkleV ^ lie ^ Svas
requested to preach dt niMholott ^ w Clbse ; aild ? fyM ii « i ^ kty ctioaten to succeed hitfi . \ Tht tri ^ nirters concerned tjtk his ordipation werfe Di % Jfefett ^ lfuii ^ Mr . Samuel (^ fto >
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No . CU ] JULY , 1818 . ^ rXltl ^
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VOL . XIII . 3 G
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1818, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2478/page/1/
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