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The Metropolitan Pulpit; Or, Sketches of the Most Popular Preachers in London
The Metropolitan Pulpit Or Sketches of the Most Popular Preachers in London Author:James Grant General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1839 Original Publisher: D. Appleton Subjects: Preaching Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.... more »com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. THE EPISCOPAL CLERGY MINISTERS OF CHURCHES, The Rev. Thomas Snow -- The Rev. J. T. Robinson -- The Rev. Thomas Dale -- The Rev. John Harding -- The Rev. Dr. Croly. The Rev. Thomas Snow, Vicar of St. Dunstan's, Fleet- street, has occupied that situation for several years. It is not generally known, not even, I believe, by the evangelical party in the churches of London, that the reverend gentle- man was one of the four clergymen of the Establishment who simultaneously seceded from the Church in 1815, and whose separation from thejjhierarchy caused so great a sensation in the religious world at the time. The circumstance of Mr. Snow's being one of the seceders, contributed much to the interest which was felt in the secession, in consequence of his being the brother of a baronet, and being largely and most respectably connected in a family point of view. Of the Rev. Mr. Evans, of John-street Chapel, King's-road, another of the separatists, I shall have occasion to speak when come to notice the Baptist ministers of the metropolis. A detailed reference to the remaining two does not fall within the plan of this work. Mr. Snow, soon after he had detached himself from the Church, went to one of our fashionable watering-towns -- to Cheltenham, if my memory be not at fault -- where he got up a small society of Christians, consisting of persons who had embraced his newly adopted views. The remark has been so often made, as to acquire the currency of a pro- verb, that individuals in matters of religious faith especially, often leap from one extre...« less