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the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, Dissenting Academics. (search)
hich is really erroneous can be permanently beneficial to the best interests of mankind. The Unitarians claim the merit of being the only party who have acted uniformly and consistently on this just and enlightened principle. Some few of the academies established, partially at least, under the auspices of other sects, have, it is true, for awhile, and to a certain extent, followed the same plan. Among these honourable exceptions was that of Doddridge, at Northampton, and its successor at Daventry, under the conduct of Ashworth, Robins, and Belsham. But it is certainly not a little remarkable, that there is scarcely an instance of this kind which has not occasioned a considerable falling away from the rigour of genuine Calvinism, even among those who have remained nominally in the ranks of orthodoxy; while no small portion of the ingenuous youth, encouraged, or at least permitted, to examine both sides, and judge for themselves, have embraced some form of unitarianism. This being t
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, Caleb Rotheram, D. D. (search)
the occasion of the removal of the academy, which took place at this time, from Northampton to Daventry, Here it was placed under the care of Mr. (afterwards Dr.) Ashworth, as theological tutor; Mr.capacity Dr. Ashworth bears the following honourable testimony: When the academy was removed to Daventry, he kindly continued as assistant in it for five years; and I take pleasure in acknowledging inappears to have been one of the first class of students entered under the new administration at Daventry, gives an interesting account of the plan of study pursued there, which, though defective in sothe reputation which he had acquired during his connexion with the academies of Northampton and Daventry pointed him out to the trustees of the Warrington academy, on the decease of Dr. Taylor, as the God hath done it. Mr. Clark, it is believed, published nothing, except a sermon preached at Daventry, on the earthquake at Lisbon, Nov. 1, 1755. There are also one or two sermons of his in a publ