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the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, Thomas Emlyn (search)
been with Lindsey, Robertson, and many others who have finally sacrificed their worldly prospects for the sake of the truth, the adoption of so decided a step was a subject of much serious and anxious deliberation, and was delayed even for years beyond the time when the change of doctrinal sentiment had been fully completed. While this subject was dwelling on his mind, his domestic happiness was painfully interrupted, first by the death of an infant son, and afterwards (towards the end of 1701) by that of his wife. On this latter occasion he preached a sermon from John XIV. 28. If ye loved me ye would rejoice, because I said I go to my Father; for my Father is greater than I. This sermon was afterwards printed, (during the darkest season of his own approaching personal troubles,) under the title of Funeral Consolations, and contains many passages which for eloquence, pathos, and true Christian feeling, are not surpassed by any thing in our language. He makes no distinct allusio
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, John Shute, (search)
ral writers of high name and authority on the subjects to which they related. After studying four years at Utrecht, Mr. Shute returned to England, and entered himself a student of the Inner Temple, with a view to the legal profession. He was not, however, so absorbed in his preparations for this object as not to take an interest in the affairs of the religious body to which he belonged. He soon began to take an active part in the controversy between the Church and the Dissenters, and in 1701 published a pamphlet, but without his name, entitled, The Interest of England, in respect to Protestants dissenting from the established Church. In this pamphlet he dwelt on the rights of the Dissenters, to a full toleration; and argued the question on those enlarged and general principles which recommended him to the notice of Mr. Locke, with whose friendship, during the short remainder of that great man's life, he continued to be honoured. It is not improbable that to his intercourse with