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The whole works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A.
The whole works of the Rev John Howe MA Author:John Howe Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: whole of life, something more will be required to blemish his character than mere insinuation. It would be difficult to find a person less likely to worm himself... more » into another man's place, than the subject of this memoir. Howe, formed for friendship, found here, as at Cambridge, men worthy to claim the honour of being his friends. Some of them were kindred spirits, not merely as scholars, but also as Christian ministers, who afterwards shared with him the weight of the cross which non-conformity was called to bear. Distinct mention is due to Theophilus Gale; Thomas Danson, Chaplain of Christ Church, and afterwards fellow of Magdalen, who became at length pastor of a dissenting church at Abingdon in Berkshire; and to Samuel Blower, who, Calamy says, died pastor of a congregation of dissenters in the same town. This latter was fond of expressing his attachment to Mr. Howe, observing, whenever the name was mentioned in company, " We two were bom in the same town, "went to the same school, and were of the same College in the University." To these companions of Mr. Howe's academic walks should be added, John Spilsbury, who was afterwards ejected for non-conformity from Bromsgrove in Worcestershire with whom the author of The Living Temple maintained a correspondence at once intimate and endeared, until death separated for a while these bosom friends. The author of The Non-conformists' Memorial mentions also, that besides two of the former per chapter{Section 4sons, Wood neglects to notice in his Fasti two others who were graduates while Howe was at Cambridge, George Porter and James Ashhurst, who died at Newington Green, near London. These omissions have been supposed to be designed attempts to diminish the apparent number of those who sacrificed their interest to their sincere...« less