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begun in 1776 , and completed in 1780 , was much approved , and liberally rewarded . ** But the study of the Scriptures , particularly of the New Testament , in the original language , was an employment in which he took peculiar pleasure . From this source he deduced
his sentiments on theological subjects , which were the result of impartial and diligent inquiry . He was a strenuous advocate for the pre-existent dignity of Christ , and the persona lily of the Holy Spirit . He m intained the essential distinction between the
soul and the body , and the liberty of the human will , in opposition to Materialists and Necessarians . He was intimately acquainted with several eminent clergymen , Dr . Sykes , Dr .
G . Sharp , Mr . Taylor , Dr . Majendie , and others , of considerable rank in the church of England , through whose influence he might have had preferment in it , which was once actually offered him : but he maintained his
profession among the Protestant Dissenters without wavering . " Prot . Diss . Mac / . II . pp . 264 , 399 , 400 . In Vol . III . p . 272 , are Elegiac Lines , on the death of Dr . Flexman , written , I have no doubt , by a gentleman still living , who was nearly related to him . There is also annexed to the same
volume , an engraving of Dr . Flexmau , which , so far as my recollection serves , conveys a striking likeness of his person . II .
Harringtons . ( Sons of Lord Harrington . ) A very near relation of mine , well remembered them atTauuton , where they used to sit with the other students in the gallery of Paul ' s Meeting-house . They were called
Lord B . and Mr , John . The former had succeeded to this title in 1734 , at the age of 1 $ . There is , in Gibbon ' s Mem . p . 407 , a well written letter from Lord B . to Dr . Watts , a few weeks after his father ' s death .
Mr . John Harrington , according to Biog . Jhit . ( I . 028 ) , " was a majorgeneral , commanded the land forces at the reduction of Guadaloupe , in 1758 , and died in 1764 . " R .
P . 90 , Col . i . —Jeffries . The memory of Dr . Joseph Jeffries , who was an acquaintance of my earliest youth , has been preserved , by his friend Dr . Toulmiu , in the Prot . Diss . Mag . ( VL
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3—5 ) . Hence , I learn that hfc was born in 1 7 Z 6 , at Taunton , where his father was a Baptist minister After preaching at Orediton , he removed , in 1756 , to a Baptist chur « h at Pinner ' s Hall , London . In 4 < 1767 , he was elected professor of civil law , at Gresham College . This choice did honour to the liberality of that part of the trustees for that foundation , whose turn it was then to nominate to the vacant chair ; as the election of Dr . Jeffries was the first instance of
a Dissenting minister being chosen to supply any of Sir Thomas Gresham ' s lectureships Dr . John Ward , who for many years filled with great reputation the professorship of rhetoric , was , indeed , a Dissenter of the Baptist denomination ; but he was a laygentleman . ^ 0011 after Dr Jeffries
was elected to this rank , he exerted himself in rendering an essential service to the present and future Gresham professors , by setting on foot , and with vigour supporting and carrying on an application to parliament , to set aside the obligation on the professors to continue in a state of celibacy , with which the munificent founder had
clogged the institution . The application was received , and the prayer of the petition granted . " When his finances were scanty , he supported , by a strict economy , free from meanness , an appearance above them . Distress experienced his
humanity ; public designs had his support ; and , living a single life himself , he was the friend and parent to his brother ' s family . He was one of those who conducted the application of the Dissenting ministers to parliament , for relief in matters of subscription to the thirty-nine articles , and assisted
this measure with zeal and generosity . When , in consequence of it , the petition was at last heard , and the Toleration Act placed on a more liberal footing , he wished to have carried it free from the test it now imposes , though he then felt no objection to conform to it himself . Afterwards ,
indeed , he changed his sentiments on this question 5 or had , at least , his doubts concerning the consistency of conforming to any religious test , as a condition of toleration , with the true principle of a Protestant Dissenter * He was a warm advocate for civil and
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752 Addenda el Corrigenda .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1818, page 752, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2483/page/24/
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