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_.- MEMOIRS AND REMAINS OF EMINENT PERSONS. 
A brief account of the LIFE and LaBouRS 
» of the REY. THEOPHILUS LINDSEY, M.A. 
~ formerly FELLOW of st. JOHN’s CoL- 
|) LEGE, CAMBRIDGE, 
N bringing before the public memoirs 
of persons distinguished for talents, 
integrity, and ‘piety, we at once testify 
our regard and attachment to departed 
worth, and use the best means .in our 
power of exciting survivors and posterity 
to follow the steps of those, who, by their 
exertions and perseverance, haveattained 
for theniselves an unfading celebrity. 
. The writer of this article cannot, by 
any powers that he possesses, solicit the 
public attention; he aims only at giving 
in the plainest manner a narrative of 
facts, which are of themselves interest- 
ing and important. Those who wish for 
a more perfect character of the Rev. 
Theophilus Lindsey, and are anxious for 
“a full and interesting display of his vari- 
old style. 
ous excellencies, must not rest satisfied 
with what will be found in these pages : 
they will read with satisfaction and de- 
light a discourse preached on the occa- 
‘swn by his friend and highly respected 
successor the Rev. Thomas Belsham, 
which will doubtless ere long be in pos- 
session of the public, and which, in the 
estimation of many, might supersede 
every other similar attempt. It cannot, 
however, be denied that widely circula- 
ted periodical publications, such as that of 
which we are enabled to avail ourselves, 
come into the hands of hundreds, perhaps 
eyen thousands, in which sermons the 
Snost eloquent and captivating are never 
seen. Under this impression the present 
writer, however inadequate to the task 
that he has undertaken, may hope to 
bring many readers of the Monthly Ma- 
gazine acquainted .with the life and la- 
bours of the eminent and truly apostolic 
Mr. Lindsey, who, from inattention to 
theological discussion, might otherwise 
beignorant of the cause which he vindi- 
cated: the obstacles he surmeunted ; and 
the success he obtained as the result of 
his ardent pursuit of the truth. 
Vheophilus Lindsey was born at Mid- 
dlewich, in Cheshire, June 20, 1723, 
Ils father, Mr. Robert Lind- 
sey, was an opulent proprietor of the 
* salt-works there, and highly esteemed for 
__ his integrity and worth; and his mother 
was an excellent aud very pious woman, 
_ of the name of Spencer, in the county 
of Buckingham, a younger branch of 
“ 
the Spencer family. Theophilus was the 
second of three children, and so;named 
after his godfather Theophilus, Earl of 
Huntingdon,.to whom Mrs. Lindsey and 
her children were greatly indebted for 
many instances of kindness and protecs 
tion after the death of her husband. 
Theophilus received the rudiments. of 
learning at the grammar-school of Mid- 
dlewich, and being of a delicate consti- 
tution, and attached to books, almost 
from his infancy, he was, from an early 
age, intended by his mother for the 
church. Unfortunately for the progress 
of her son in the learned languages, the 
master of the grammar-school, Mr, Shark-= 
land, an Oxonian, and an excellent scho- 
lar, died when Theophilus was but twelve 
years of age. Mr. Sharkland’s succes- 
sor was deemed incompetent to the ar-. 
duous task of education, and the youth. 
lost much time by a change of schools. 
At length it was resolved, at the desire of 
Lady Anne Hastings, the particular 
friend of his mother, that he should be 
placed wider the care of Mr. Barnard, 
master of the free-school at Leeds. Here 
he made a rapid progress in classical 
learning, and from his worthy and truly 
excellent preceptor imbibed those active 
principles of piety and benevolence, to 
which his tender heart had always been 
inclined, and which in every future pe- 
riod of his life shone forth most conspi- 
ciously. Of Mr. Barnard, his scholar 
was fond, to a late period of his life, te 
speak with respect, and even filial affec- 
tion, as ofa man bent upon doing good © 
to the eternal and temporal interests of 
men; and with regard to the latter, not 
unfrequently to the privation of what was | 
necessary to his own personal comfort, 
-At the age of eighteen, Mr. Lindsey . 
was adinitted of St. John’s College, Cam- 
bridge, where he availed himself of every 
advantage which his situation afforded, 
and by the most exemplary diligence and 
moral conduct obtained the entire ap- 
probation of his tutors. 
Having finished his studies at College, 
taken his first degree, and been admitted 
to deacon’s orders, he’ was nominated by 
Sir George Wheeler to a chapel in Spital- 
square, London. _ He had not been in 
this office quite two years, when, at the 
particular recommendation of the Earl’ 
of Huntingdon, he was-appointed domes 
tie chaplain to Algernon, Doke of So- 
merset. In this, as in every situation of 
2 life, 
