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WILLIAM CARSLAKE. This gentleman received his education at Exeter College, Oxford, and was for sometime possessed of the living of Werrington, in Devonshire, from whence he was ejected in 1662. After this he removed to London, where he preached all the time of the plague. He was afterwards for some years pastor of a congregation near Horsleydown, in Southwark. Dr. Calamy gives him the character of a good and pious man, but says, he was inclined to melancholy. He died soon after the Revolution. Mr. Carslake is respectfully mentioned in Mr. Rosewell's Life, as associating with other ministers in the neighbourhood for monthly fasts.+

RICHARD ADAMS descended from religious ancestors, six of his line and name having been devoted to the ministry. His grandfather was rector of Woodchurch, in Cheshire, of which he purchased the perpetual advowson; and his father was settled some time at Worrall, in the same county, where, it is apprehended, Mr. Adams was born. He pursued his studies for the ministry, first at Cau bridge, where he proceeded M. A. March 26, 1644; and afterwards at Oxford, where he was admitted a student of Brazen Nose College, March 24, 1646, and soon became a fellow.

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There he was at once an example and ornament to his college, respected and beloved by all, especially by those who were best acquainted with him. That constant serenity and equality of mind, that seriousness and humility wherein he excelled, rendered him amiable in the sight of observers; and the diligence with which he applied to his studies in these his younger days, enabled him to lay up a large stock of valuable and useful knowledge that fitted him to become a well-instructed scribe, when he appeared in the public character of a minister. In 1655, he was presented to the living of St. Mildreds, Bread-street, in the city of London, from whence he was ejected for nonconformity in 1662. Although he was then obliged to quit his station, he did not desert his Master's work, but continued his ministry as opportunity offered, and at length settled with a congregation in Southwark. There he continued his useful labours, till weakness and age undermined his natural strength, and compelled him to desist from constant preaching. This was to him a great affliction, for he loved his work, and notwithstanding the temporal discouragements he met with in the course of his ministry, he resolved to train both his sons to the same employment. During the short period of his last illness, his head became frequently delirious through intense pain, but at lucid intervals he would discourse very sensibly upon the things of religion. His brother, Colonel Adams, discoursing with him upon the discharge of his ministry, he said, "he hoped he had endeavoured to serve God faithfully and sincerely, though he had been an unprofitable servant." About five hours before his death, he said, "God is my portion," and desired those about him to join with him in prayer; in which he expressed himself very suitably to his case as a dying man, concluding thus: "Grant that when this earthly house is dissolved, I may be taken to the mansions not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." As the life of this good man was calm and se

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rene, so was his death, of the approach of which he was apprehensive throughout his sickness. Nothing was then allowed to ruffle his spirit, but he expressed his faith in the language of the apostle, "I know in whom I have believed." His peaceful spirit departed on the 7th of February, 1698, and his funeral sermon was preached by his old and intimate friend, Mr. John Howe, who gives him an excellent character for piety, peaceableness, and sincerity. "About fifty years," says he, "I remember his course, and our conversation was not casual, or at a distance, but as friends inward and chosen by ourselves. Many a day we have prayed, conferred, and taken sweet counsel together. In the great city he shone a bright and burning light, till many such lights were in one day put under a bushel. His humility and self-denial were eminently conspicuous in his taking upon him the care and charge of so small and poor a people, and continuing with them to the damage of his own estate, though he had considerable offers elsewhere. His meckness was very visible in all his conversation, especially in bearing affronts. Of his candour he made every one sensible who offered to detract from persons behind their backs. Such a course as his was, that even peaceful course, wherein was so eminent devotedness to God, and benignity towards man, shewed his spirit was touched by one for the other. Hereby he appeared so much the more attempered to the heavenly state, and that world where divine love governs, making a man by how much the more strongly he was attracted himself by it, so much the more desirous to attract others." * (G)

Mr. Howe's Sermon on the death of Mr. Adams.—Wood's Athenæ, vol. ii. p. 1023.

(G) WORKS.-1. The Duties of Parents and Children: a Sermon in the Supplement to Morn. Ex. 1674.-2. Of Hell: a Sermon in Morn. Ex. methodized. 1676.-3. On the Means of Grace: a Sermon in the 4th Vol. of Casuistical Morn. Ex.-4. The earthly and heavenly Build

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JAMES GALLOWAY.-Mr. Adams was succeeded about 1698, by Mr. James Galloway, who was the pastor of this church nearly thirty years. A few years after his settlement his congregation removed into the above place in Parishstreet. Mr. Galloway having the misfortune to become wholly deaf, quitted his pastoral charge in or about 1727. Notwithstanding his affliction, we are informed that he still continued his attendance upon public worship at this place, and after the dissolution of the society, at Mr. Halford's, in the same neighbourhood. This he probably did for the benefit of example, the same motive that influenced Dr. Lardner. Mr. Galloway lived to a very advanced age, and for several of the latter years of his life was afflicted with the palsy. His name is found in the list of subscribing ministers at the Salters'-hall synod, in 1719.

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JOHN PANTON.-Mr. Galloway was succeeded by a Mr. Panton, a young minister, who had lately finished his studies. He was settled here in 1727, and continued only two or three years, when it is probable he removed into the country.

SAMUEL BAKER.-This gentleman was educated for the ministry amongst the Protestant Dissenters, and preached for several years to a congregation in the country. Whilst in that situation, he united with the non-subscribing ministers at the Salters'-hall synod, in 1719. In 1727, he was chosen to preach the Lord's-day evening lecture at Salters'hall, in the room of Mr. Bradbury, who had resigned. Soon after this, in 1730, he was invited to settle in Parish

ing: a Funeral Sermon for Henry Hurst, M. A. 1690. Mr. Adams, in Conjunction with Mr. Veel, wrote a Preface to the Works of the learned Stephen Charnock. He also wrote the Exposition of the Epistles to the Philippians and the Colossians, in the Supplement to Poole's Annotations.

* MS, penes me.

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street, Southwark, where he continued his stated ministerial course till the time of his death. Mr. Baker was a respectable minister, of Baxterian sentiments, and a good preacher; but his congregation was both small and poor. He died in March, 1748, leaving a daughter, who married Dr. Amory, of the Old Jewry.*

JOHN HENRY.-Mr. Baker was succeeded by Mr. John Henry, who preached in Parish-street only a few years, when his congregation dissolved. He is said to have been afflicted with a mental malady, which compelled him to desist from preaching, and accounted for some singularities that were observable in his conduct. The latter part of his life he spent at Fulham, where he died, May 16, 1773.†

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THIS place is situated in what is called Meeting-house

Walk, Snow's-fields. It was erected in 1736, chiefly through the influence of a Mrs. Ginn, of whose character a particular account may be seen in a sermon preached upon her death by Mr. Sayer Rudd. (H) The circumstance that

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(A) In the Daily Advertiser for Thursday, June 15, 1738, there is the following notice of Mrs. Ginn. "Last Sunday departed this life, in the 60th year of her age, Mrs. Elizabeth Ginn, of Newington Butts, widow, a gentlewoman very remarkable for her strict attachment to the Christian revelation, as contained in the Scriptures, and for her pious zeal in the Baptist profession; for the sake of which, through the seve rity of relations in her younger years, and the blind zeal of a certain

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