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1740 AD (search for this): chapter 13
s upon those who do not come exactly up to their standard. In the following year Mr. Taylor published, with his name, a sequel to this publication, entitled A further Defence of the Common Rights of Christians; entering at greater length into the argument to prove the sufficiency and perfection of Scripture, as the rule of faith without the aid of human creeds, confessions, &c. This Tract has been lately republished, and may be found in the Catalogue of the unitarian Association. In 1740 appeared the first edition of his celebrated work on original sin. This is the performance by which the author is chiefly known as a controversial theologian; and it entitles him, in that capacity, to a high and distinguished rank. It is admitted, by common consent, to be a treatise of great learning and ability, and is referred to by both parties as a standard work. It is divided into three parts; in the first of which all those places of Scripture which do expressly speak of the consequen
1754 AD (search for this): chapter 13
her than this, is, we apprehend, sufficiently manifest from the general strain of his writings, and even from other parts of this treatise; though, in expressing his opinion, as in the above extracts, he may be thought to have occasionally employed language which is liable to be misunderstood. See some admirable remarks on this Treatise, and on the subject in general, in a letter addressed to the author by Dr. Duchal, and inserted in the second volume of the Theological Repository. In 1754 appeared the first volume, in folio, of our author's great work, which establishes his claim to a place in the first rank of biblical scholars, his Hebrew concordance. This work, the labour of fourteen years, will be a durable monument of his learning and unwearied industry, as well as of his zeal to promote the study of the Scriptures. In the advertisement announcing it as ready for the press, he appeals, as a practical example of the use to be made of such a work, to the advantage he had
1751 AD (search for this): chapter 13
ntly devoted one evening in the week to their instruction. We have before noticed his Scripture Catechism, out of which he regularly examined his young auditors, and impressed upon their minds the importance of attention to the sacred duties of religion. See in various points of his history a Sketch of the Life of the late Dr. J. Taylor, of Norwich, from the Universal Theological Magazine for July 1804, afterwards enlarged and printed in a distinct form by Messrs. R. and A. Taylor. In 1751 appeared a very learned and valuable treatise, entitled, The Scripture Doctrine of Atonement examined, first in relation to the Jewish Sacrifices, and then to the Sacrifice of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. In this work the author first inquires into the original meaning, design, and efficacy of sacrifices, which he shews to be, in all respects, the same as that of prayer and praise, or any other suitable expression of our religious regards which are pleasing to God, as they proc
1750 AD (search for this): chapter 13
have also strongly recommended it to the careful study of candidates for the ministry in the Established Church. As for the worthy author himself, though by no means indifferent to the favourable opinion of the wise and good, we cannot doubt that he would receive the idle ravings of a Macgowan with contempt, or rather with mild compassion; thinking it enough to reply in the language of the apostle, with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment. In 1750 Mr. Taylor published a Collection of Tunes in various Airs, for the use of his Congregation. This was one of the first collections of the kind, and a plain and simple introduction to the art of singing was prefixed to it. This was an accomplishment in which the author delighted and excelled; an accomplishment, we may add, which seems to have been inherited in no ordinary degree by not a few of his descendants. The pleasure, we are told, which the author took in instructing the younger part
1747 AD (search for this): chapter 13
, of Chowbent. From those two stocks have proceeded very widely extending branches. Before his death he had seen grandchildren On the birth of the first was written his tract, The value of a Child, republished in 1816, by Messrs. R. and A. Taylor. growing up around him, several of whom have been till very lately, and some of whom are still, in our churches, universally respected and esteemed. Dr. Taylor's eldest grandson, the Rev. Philip Taylor, late of Dublin, was born at Norwich, in 1747. He received his education first under Dr. Harwood, then of Congleton, afterwards in the academies of Exeter and Warrington. In 1767, he was chosen assistant to the Rev. John Brekell, of Benn's Garden, in Liverpool, whom he succeeded as minister of the congregation in 1770. In 1777 he removed to Dublin, as assistant to his father-in-law, the Rev. Dr. Weld, in the pastoral charge of the congregation assembling in Eustace Street, in that city. In this connexion he continued during the rema
October, 1757 AD (search for this): chapter 13
those confessors. and was now arrived at an age when men in general become increasingly averse to the trouble and uncertainty of a change. Nevertheless, he was induced by earnest persuasion to dissolve this happy connexion, in order to commence, at this late period of his life, the laborious and anxious office of theological tutor in the newly-formed academy at Warrington, in Lancashire, whose prospects of success were represented as depending on his co-operation. Thither he removed in October 1757. Of the sacrifice of personal ease and comfort which this change, to a man circumstanced as he was, could not but be expected to involve, he thus speaks, in a passage of his Scripture Account of Prayer:—I am returned to this my native county, not with any selfish or sinister views, but with a sincere and disinterested desire to do you service in the Gospel of Christ, by communicating to young students that knowledge which I have acquired by a long course of thought and the most impartial
1694 AD (search for this): chapter 13
that designation, he having spent the most active, and brilliant, as well as the happiest portion of his life in that city,—deserves, and has always received, an honourable place among the most learned divines of the last century. His title to this rank has been generally acknowledged and recognized both by Churchmen and Dissenters; by those who differed from him most widely, as well as by those who agreed with him, in theological sentiments. He was born at or near Lancaster, in the year 1694. His father, who was a timber-merchant there, was a member of the Church of England; but his mother was a Dissenter. From his earliest years he shewed a strong disposition to engage in the ministry of the Gospel among Dissenters, in which he afterwards so eminently distinguished himself, and served the cause of religion and of truth. This appears from his own private memoranda, in which he has thus recorded the views with which he was actuated while prosecuting his studies: I have always,
1761 AD (search for this): chapter 13
of the preceding century; excellent men, he says, because excellent, instant, and fervent in prayer; whose eminent zeal and sacrifices in the cause of religious truth he eulogizes in such terms of glowing and affectionate reverence as drew commendation from many of those whose prejudices had accustomed them to consider him in any other character than that which, in reality, eminently belonged to him. The Scripture Account of Prayer was prepared for the press by Dr. Taylor in the spring of 1761, (his prefatory remarks being dated 25th February,) but was not published by him. Early in the morning of the 5th of March in that year, while asleep in his bed, it pleased God to remove him to a better world. From the composed posture in which the body was found, it was judged that his departure had been perfectly tranquil. On the second of June, in the same year, his wife followed him, after having acquitted herself as a true Christian under a long course of bodily weakness. They were bo
June 2nd (search for this): chapter 13
er than that which, in reality, eminently belonged to him. The Scripture Account of Prayer was prepared for the press by Dr. Taylor in the spring of 1761, (his prefatory remarks being dated 25th February,) but was not published by him. Early in the morning of the 5th of March in that year, while asleep in his bed, it pleased God to remove him to a better world. From the composed posture in which the body was found, it was judged that his departure had been perfectly tranquil. On the second of June, in the same year, his wife followed him, after having acquitted herself as a true Christian under a long course of bodily weakness. They were both interred in the chapel yard at Chowbent, near Bolton, in Lancashire. A plain mural tablet is fixed in the chapel, with the following inscription:— Near to this place rests what was mortal of John Taylor, D. D. Reader, expect no eulogium from this stone; enquire among the friends of Learning, Liberty, and Truth. These will do him J
1757 AD (search for this): chapter 13
f peace will make us perfect in every good work to do his will, working in us that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ. About this time appeared, The Lord's Supper explained on Scripture Principles; a valuable tract, in which the intention and permanent obligation of this ordinance are ably stated, placed on a just and rational basis, cleared of superstitious prejudices and unauthorized human additions, and enforced with much impressive and eloquent illustration. In 1757 was published, Infant Baptism a Symbol of the Covenant of Grace. Of Dr. Taylor's pulpit compositions but few have been published, though many remain in Ms. They are written in a plain and simple style, but his manner as a preacher is described as impressive and dignified. He was certainly for many years the highly popular and acceptable minister of a numerous and intelligent congregation, and there is reason to believe that his public services and pastoral instructions, aided by the perso
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