JONES. 



and of permanent felicity, than tliat to whicli the mod dif- ford, and in this feminary lie purfued the ufual ceiirfe 

 tinsTuirned and profperous tan attain within the regions ef of ttudies with unremitted diligence. Here he adopted 

 mortality. the Hiitchinfonian opinions in theology and natural phi- 

 We fhill clofe tliis article with obferving that lady Jones, lofophy. Mr. Jones was admitted to the degree of B. A. in 

 fince the demife of fir William, has prefented to the the year 1749, and was, in the fame year, admitted to 

 Royal Society a colietlion of MSS. Sanfcrit and Arabic, deacon's orders. In 1751, he was ordained priett, and in 

 w>.!ch tie reckoned i:ienimable, and alfo another large t7:;3, he publilhed his " Full Anfwcr to Bifliop Clayton's 

 colleflion of Eaftern MSS.; of -which a catalogue, com- EITay on Spirit..'' in which he cndeavonrcd to fupport the 

 piled by Mr. Wilkins, is inferted in the 13th volume of fnc caufe of orthodoxy by an appeal to the religion ardlearn- 

 Wiiliani Jones's Works, 8vo. ed. ing of heathen antiquity. His next work was entitled the 

 JON-ES, AV Thomas, lord chief ju (lice of the Common "Catholic DoiSlrine of the Trinity," which was favourably 

 Pleas in the reigns of Cliarles II. and James II., is cele- received by the orthodox party. He now eKgaged in a 

 brated for liis reply to the latter, who confulted him on his courfe of experiments v.ith the view^ of elucidating ai.d 

 difpcnfing power, and faid he could foon have twelve judges ellabliHiing his favourite theory. In this he was liberally 

 of his opinion : iir Thomas f.nfwered, •' Twelve judges you fupported by friends who fubfcribcd among themfelves 

 may pofiibly find, fir, but not twelve lawyers." He was very large fums to enable him to purchafe fuch an appa- 

 author of Repor;s. Granger. nilus as he flood in need of. The refult of his l?,bours 

 Jones, Jerkmiau, a learned Englilh non-conformift di- was "An Effay on the firft Principles of Natural Phi- 

 vine in the eighteenth century, is fuppofed to have been lofophy," publilhed in 1762. In the year 1764, he was 

 born about the year 169,^. It is not known where he re- prefented by archbifiiop Seeker with the vicarage of Be- 

 ccived his grammar learning, but he was, at an early age, t'.ierfden, in Kent. Here, to increafe his income, he under- 

 dii\inguii1ied for his prolicicnry in ufeful knowledge. He took the tuition of a few pupils, an office for which he 

 purfued his academical (Indies under the tuition of his un- was admirably qualified. In 1765, the archbifiiop preientod 

 cle, the Rev, Samuel Jones of Tewkfbury, in Glouceflerfhire, him to the reitory of Pluckley, where he continued his 

 from wliofe feminary many pupilb were fent into the world, plan of education, and at the fame time difcharged the 

 who became diiiinguitlied for their literature or rank in life, padoral duties with exemplary zeal and diligence. In the 

 Am.ong thefe were Butler, afterwards bi(hop of Durham; year 1769, he publiOied "A Letter to a Young Gentle- 

 Seeker, afterwards archbifhop of Canterbury ; and Samuel man at Oxford, intended for Holy Orders, containing fome 

 Chandler, minillcr of the Old Jewiy meeting-houfe. When feafonable Cautions againft Errors in Do£frine.'' From 

 Mr. Jone.i had liuifhed his courfe of academical learning, he this time, to the year 1781, he publi(hcd feveral other 

 fettled witli a congregation of Proteftant DiiTenters at pieces, chiefly theological, and in the latter year he gave 

 Avening, in Glouceiterlliire. He obtained a high charafter the world his " Phy(iological Difquifitions, or Difcourfes 



for found and very extenfive learning ; and he was popular 



g the Natural Fhilofophy of the Elements." This 



a preacher. Though a hard ftudent and a profound work contains much inftruftive, and much fanciful matter, 



fcholar his manners were not fevere or forbidding : he would 

 elax from his (ludies and join a party in his neighbour. 



mgenioufly applied in an attempt to inveltigate the caufes of 

 things, and to conftrutt a theory of nature on the principles 

 hood in theexercife of bowls. He died in 1724, when he of the author's favourite fyllem. His next publication was 

 was only in his thirty-firft year. During his life he pub- theological; it confided of leftures on the iigurative lan- 

 lilhed " A Vindication of the former Part of St. Matthew's guage of the Holy Scriptures, and the interpretation of 

 Gofpel, (XC." But his mod valuable and important work, it from the Scripture itfclf. This was pubhfted in 1788, 

 which he had prepared for the prefs before his death, but and, in 1790, he gave the public two volumes of fermons 

 which was not publilhed till the year 1726, was his " New on moral and rehgious fubjefts, which include difcourfes 

 and full Method of fettling the Canonical Authority of the on natural hidory, delivered at an annual lecture at Shore- 

 N'ew Tedament." The works of Mr. Jones remain as ditch church, oi which the 

 monuments of his learning, ingenuity, and indefatigable iii- 



dufiry, and would have done credit to the affiduity and 

 ability of a literary man of fixty. They were become 



preacner is appointed by the 

 Royal Society. In the year 1792 he employed his pen in 

 the fervice of pohtics, and printed a two-penny pam.phlct, 

 entitled " A Letter from Thomas Bull to his Brother John, 



exceedingly fcarce, and bore a very high price, when, about which was mod indudrioufly circulated throughout the king- 

 ten years finrc, the cundudlors of the Clarendon prefs dom by the friends of adminidration. Mr. Jones attempted 

 republinied them. " Mr. Jones,'' obferves Dr. Maltby, to form a fociety " for the reformation of principles," but it 

 " has brought together, whh uncommon diligence and judg- did not fucceed : he was the founder of the periodical publi- 

 mcnt, the external evidence for the authenticity of the ca- cation entitled the " Britifh Critic,'' and he edited a collcc- 

 nonical books ; and he has, with equal ability and fairnefs, tion of trafts in two volumes, which had been originally pub- 

 flated his reafons for deciding againd the apocryphal." liftied by Mr. Law, Mr. Norris, Dr. Home, and others. 

 Had his life been fpared, Mr. Jones would have drawn This work was entitled " The Scholar armed againd the 

 u:i another and didinft volume on the apodolical fathers. Errors of the Time, or a Colleftion of Trafts on the Princi- 

 Monthly Magazine. piss and Evidences of Chridianity, the Conditulion of the 

 JoNKS, William, a worthy clergyman of the church of Charch, and Authority of civil Government." In 1795 he 

 England, was born at Lowick, in Northamptonfliire, in publinied"Memoiisof the Life, Studies, and Writings of the 

 the year 1726. He laid a good foundation of grammar Right Reverend George Home, DD. late lord bilhop of Nor- 

 learniug in the country, and when he was of a proper wich," to the fecond edition of which he prefixed a concife 

 r.ge he was admitted a fcholar at the Charter-Houfe in expofilion of Mr. Hutchinfon's leading theological and phi- 

 London, where he made a rapid progrefs in the Latin aid lofophical opinions. His lad publication was " A Dif- 

 G reek languages, and at the fame time (hewed a turn courfe on the Ufe and Intention of fome remarkable Palfages 

 for philofophical purfuits. When he was about eighteen of Scripture, &c." Siiortly after this, he fuffercd nioil 

 years of age, he was entered «f Uuiverfity college, Ox- feverely £i-om a paralytic feiziirc.whichat length, in February 



1800, 



