OF EMINENT UNITARIAN S. BY THE REV. W. TURNER, JUN., M.A. VOL. II. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY THE UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION; AND SOLD BY J. GREEN, No. 121, NEWGATE STREET, AND J. MARDON, 7, FARRINGDON STREET. 1843. ERRATA. Page 18, line 14, for "Master" read Mater. 33, 58, 13, for "latter" read better. 7, in foot note, for "revival" read revisal. 67, 17, for "hypocritical" read hypercritical. INTRODUCTION. THE eminent persons who have been commemorated in the former part of this work as professors of different forms of Unitarianism, were for the most part born and bred in the bosom of the Nonconformist churches. It is probable that they were in general Nonconformists upon principle; that is, not merely dissenters from the accident of their position, as disapproving of the doctrines or discipline of the established church, but opposed to all civil establishments of religion, whatever their constitution or creed might be. But it is notorious that there has always existed within the church itself a numerous body, comprising many persons of considerable note both among the clergy and the laity, who have doubted or rejected this leading tenet of the body to which they nominally belonged. There have seldom been wanting many who have not hesitated to avow their disbelief through the medium of the press, and occasionally from the pulpit itself, but without feeling themselves bound on that account to dissolve their connexion with the establishment, or resign their stations and emoluments as its ministers. To this class are to be referred several of the most B |