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Memoir Of The Rev. William Romaine, A. M.
MEMOIR OF THE REV . WILLIAM ROMAINE , A . M .
THE SCIENTIFIC MAGAZINE , AND — FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY ,
FOR DECEMBER , 1797 .
WITH AN ENGRAVING OF HIS MONUMENT .
HPHIS eminent and highly popular divine was bora at Hartlepool , " ¦ in Durham , September 25 , 1714 . His father was a refugee , one of the vi & ims of the ediS : of Nantz . He had two sons and three daughters . He was alderman of that corporation , but was far from being in affluent circumstances . After going through the usual course of classical education , Mr . Romaine was removed to Hertford
College , Oxford , from whence he went , soon after , to Christ Church . His progress in literary attainments was highly honourable to himself ; but he was remarkable for a slovenliness in dress , which , in some degree , characterized him to the end of his life . Though he made afterwards such a distinguished figure as the head of the Evan-: gelical clergy ( as they have been called ) ; yet when Methodism sprung up at Oxford , he was very ill-disposed towards its authors , or
their system . He , however , joined with great ardour another sect not much less odious , viz . the Hut ' chinsonians , who set themselves against Newton and the mathematical philosophers , under the affected plea that their system was adverse to the Scriptures . It is observable , that neither Hutchinson himself , nor any of his followers , were mathematicians . By this attachment , Mr . Romaine acquired a great knowledge of the Hebrew Scriptureswhich study was much
en-, couraged by those of his party . He was ordained deacon at the age of twenty-three , and server ] a small cure in Devonshire for a short time . In 1 7 , 7 8 he was at Epsom , where he drew up a letter to Mr . Warburton , who had provoked the Hutchinsonians extremely by his Divine Legation . The same year he was ordained priest , and served the churches of Ban- ?
stead and Horton . The year following he preached a sermon before the University against Mr . Warburton ' s hypothesis . In 1741 he was appointed
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Memoir Of The Rev. William Romaine, A. M.
MEMOIR OF THE REV . WILLIAM ROMAINE , A . M .
THE SCIENTIFIC MAGAZINE , AND — FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY ,
FOR DECEMBER , 1797 .
WITH AN ENGRAVING OF HIS MONUMENT .
HPHIS eminent and highly popular divine was bora at Hartlepool , " ¦ in Durham , September 25 , 1714 . His father was a refugee , one of the vi & ims of the ediS : of Nantz . He had two sons and three daughters . He was alderman of that corporation , but was far from being in affluent circumstances . After going through the usual course of classical education , Mr . Romaine was removed to Hertford
College , Oxford , from whence he went , soon after , to Christ Church . His progress in literary attainments was highly honourable to himself ; but he was remarkable for a slovenliness in dress , which , in some degree , characterized him to the end of his life . Though he made afterwards such a distinguished figure as the head of the Evan-: gelical clergy ( as they have been called ) ; yet when Methodism sprung up at Oxford , he was very ill-disposed towards its authors , or
their system . He , however , joined with great ardour another sect not much less odious , viz . the Hut ' chinsonians , who set themselves against Newton and the mathematical philosophers , under the affected plea that their system was adverse to the Scriptures . It is observable , that neither Hutchinson himself , nor any of his followers , were mathematicians . By this attachment , Mr . Romaine acquired a great knowledge of the Hebrew Scriptureswhich study was much
en-, couraged by those of his party . He was ordained deacon at the age of twenty-three , and server ] a small cure in Devonshire for a short time . In 1 7 , 7 8 he was at Epsom , where he drew up a letter to Mr . Warburton , who had provoked the Hutchinsonians extremely by his Divine Legation . The same year he was ordained priest , and served the churches of Ban- ?
stead and Horton . The year following he preached a sermon before the University against Mr . Warburton ' s hypothesis . In 1741 he was appointed