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University of St . Andrews , and should rejoice to render it any service . «< Iattv with the greatest respect * " Gentlemen , ** ¦ Your most obliged , obedient servant , "CALEB FLEMING .
" To the University of St . Andrew ?" When he preached at Bartholomew Close , he gave up the doctrine of the Pre-existence , and took for his text the first 14 verses of St . John ' s Gospel . He thought some of his hearers would have left him on that account , but
they did hot . In the year 1766 , he published another defence of the Unity . A wicteW of a friend offered to make him her executor , and leave him her fortune ; but knowing that she had poor relations , he refused her
offer , detesting the thought of devouring widows houses . Yet from legacies , &c , he was very comfortably provided for in his old age . Upon reading his discourse on Demonism , Dr . Lardner sent him the following note :
February 3 , 17 58 . € t Rev . and bear Sir , 4 < Your short discourse on Detnonistn puts me and my performance out of countenance . You have said as much or more in ten pages , than I have said in ten times ten . " Your affectionate friend and
humble servant , "N . LARDNER . ' Dr . F . preached his last sermon at Pinner ' s Hall , the first Lord ' s day in December , 1777 , and died July SI , 1779 > in the 81 st year of his age . It was , I conclude , in this last discourse
that he observed , "I close these my public labours , in the pleasing hope of receiving from Christ ' s ministrations divine advantage when flesh and heart shall fail me , and that he will approve my labours as having been faithful in a few things . I would ascribe to him all the honour due to
an exalted Prince , the Christian ' one Lord and Saviour of the world—supreme worship alone being paid to the one God . * £ he Rev . John Palmer preached hfc fiiper ^ l sermon , August 1 , 1779 , at his meeting , in New Broad-street , from # Cot i . 1 % It was published by M * . Johnson , St . Paulfc Church-yard , and $ r . pmh& < &e Poultry , with
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the Oration delivered at the interment ' by the Rev . Dr . Jos . Towers . He published more than fifty-eight pieces . Several of these were upon infant baptism , of which he was a most strenuous defender . The whole of his works are in the library in Red-Cross-street , bound up in ten or twelve volumes , with the Funeral Sermon and Oration .
The following epitaph was found among his papers : An Epitaph for the Gravestone ^ if one is put over my dead Corpse . u Here lies the natural body of Caleb Fleming , Dissenting teacher : " That dust which has returned to the
earth as it was , but whose spirit is gone to God who gave it j not naked or unclothed , but clothed upon with a spiritual body ; an house from heaven , i . e . if moiv tality is with him swallowed up of life . ' *
Dr . Towers , however , wrote another , as follows , which is on the grave stone in Bunhill-fields . " Under this stone are interred the remains of The Rev . Caleb Fleming-, D . D . many years pastor of a congregation of
Protestant Dissenters in this metropolis . " He was distinguished for his piety and integrity , anH his indefatigable attention , to the study of the sacred writing's . He was a steadfast assertor of the right of private judgment , and considered the
interposition of human power and authority in matters of religion , as the great source of the corruptions of Christianity . Always animated by a warm zeal for the interests of religious liberty , he was equally influenced by a firm . attachment to the rights of his country and $ f human nature . **
The following character of the Doctor was put into two of the Morning papers , by Dr . Tower ** , July 21 , 1779-** On Wednesday last died , in the 81 st year of his age , the Rev . Dr . Caleb Fleming , of Hoxton-square , an eminent and learned Dissenting
minister . He was a gentleman of incorruptible integrity , laboriously studious , a zealous defender of Christianity on the most rational principles , and a . warm friend to civil and religious liberty . His abilities as a preacher were well known to many in this
metropolis , and his numerous publications are a sufficient evidence of his skill in theology . The uprightness of his conduct , and the many excellences of his head and heart , rendered bjm generally esteemed , [ and will make
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41 $ Memoir of the Life of the Rev . Caleb Fleming * p , D .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1818, page 412, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2478/page/4/
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