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the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, John Shute, (search)
ed. From this time they remained, it is true, nearly a dead letter; but they were not formally erased from the statute book till the year 1717: after which (in 1720), Mr. B. was raised to the Irish peerage by the titles of Baron Barrington, of Newcastle, and Viscount Barrington, of Ardglass; he received at the same time a reversionary grant of the office of Master of the Rolls in Ireland, which he resigned in 1731. In the first parliament of George I. Mr. B. was returned to the House of Com the part he took in the struggle at Salters'-hall, that an attempt was made to defeat his election for Berwick, in 1722, by raising against him the cry of Arianism. This cry is referred to in the following remarkable passage by Mr. Bennet, of Newcastle, in the dedication of one of his works to Lord Barrington:—I speak not this from an apprehension that your lordship has any opinions in religion that render you obnoxious, or that you need be shy of owning on proper occasions. I have reason t
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, Caleb Rotheram, D. D. (search)
e ministerial connexions, with a manly and honest frankness becoming disinterested inquirers after truth, and happily not without its reward in the beneficial influence which, in many instances, they were enabled to exercise. The principles which ought to regulate the procedure of a Christian minister in this respect, both in his private studies and his public ministrations, have rarely been stated with more distinctness and ability than by one of Dr. Rotheram's pupils, Mr. Lowthion, of Newcastle, in a sermon on the reasonableness of ministers speaking freely to their people, preached at the ordination of Mr. Caleb Rotheram, his tutor's son and successor, And the names of Seddon, Dixon, Holland, Walker, &c., which appear in the list of students educated at this institution, are sufficient to satisfy any one in the slightest degree acquainted with the history of Protestant dissent during the last century, that these principles were consistently and fearlessly acted on by the excelle