[168] Dr. Edward Williams became president in 1795. He edited the works of Jonathan Edwards, and was the author of a once famous controversial treatise on “Divine Equity and Sovereignty.”
[169] “Crispin Anecdotes,” p. 18.
[170] “Crispin Anecdotes,” p. 18.
[171] “Imperial Dictionary of Biography,” vol. iv. Edinburgh: Blackie & Son.
[172] Vol. i. p. 402.
[173] The eminent Baptist minister of St. Andrew’s Chapel, 1761-1790, predecessor of Robert Hall.
[174] Huntingdon wrote his own epitaph, part of which reads—“Beloved of his God but abhorred by men. The Omniscient Judge at the Great Assize shall ratify and confirm this, to the confusion of many thousands; for England and its metropolis shall know that there hath been a prophet among them.”
[175] See Campion’s “Delightful History,” p. 83.
[176] “Congregational Year-Book” for 1863, pp. 214-216. To the obituary notice given in the Year-Book I owe the facts given in this sketch.
[177] “Memoirs of John Kitto, D.D.,” by R. E. Ryland, M.A. Edinburgh: William Oliphant & Sons, 1856.