[184] Prot. Diss. Mag. v. 1—6. 355. vi. 112. Aikin’s General Biography.
[185] Wils. Diss. Ch. ii. 554.
[186] Harmer; MSS.
[190a] His father, in consequence of this step, disinherited him, and never saw him but once afterwards. Theol. Mag. iii. 179.
[190b] His academical certificate is dated 6 Kal. Junii 1771, and is signed by Drs. Conder, Gibbons, and Fisher, and by Messrs. Barber, Hitchin, Watson, and Stafford.
[191] These were Thomas Ebbs, afterwards a highly respectable deacon, and whose daughter Mr. Heptinstall married; Wm. Leabon [Leavold]; and John Dann.
[192] Mr. Heptinstall’s ordination took place on the sixteenth anniversary of Mr. Bocking’s.
[194] It appears that these two excellent ministers and the late Rev. John Carter of Mattishall, Norfolk, all commenced their labours, at the respective places in which they so long adorned the gospel, upon the same sabbath. They enjoyed an unchanged friendship till separated by death—a friendship which has been renewed in heaven, never more to be interrupted by distance, or severed by calamity.
[196] Theological Magazine, iii. 177–181.
[202] Those who are acquainted with Mr. Jay’s “Life of Winter,” will understand this reference to his cruel treatment with regard to the ordination he desired to obtain in the church of England,—treatment, however, which was so overruled by Providence, that he possessed, as Mr. Whitfield predicted, “the greatest preferment under heaven,—to be an able, painful, faithful, successful, suffering, cast-out minister of the New Testament.”