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METHODIST MAGAZINE,

For 1806:

BEING A CONTINUATION OF

THE

AR MINIAN MAGAZINE,

FIRST PUBLISHED BY THE

Rev. JOHN WESLEY, A. M.

VOLUME XXIX.

Or, the THIRD VOLUME of the NEW SERIES,

LONDON:
Printed at ibe Conference-Office, North-Green, Worship-Street, Finsbury Square

GEO. STORY, Agent.
And sold by ROBERT Lomas, at the Book-Room, near the New-Chapel,

City-Road.

METHODIST MAGAZINE,

For JANUARY, 1806.

BIOGRAPHY. Memoirs of the Rer. Mr. PEARCE, late of Birmingham.

TO THE Editor. Dear Sir, THE profit I have found in reading the Memoirs of the late 1 Rev. Samuel Pearce of Birmingham, published by Mr. Andrew Fuller, induces me to send you the following Epitome of that Work. Should you think it deserving of a place in the Methodist Magazine, it may possibly not only afford some proof that the Religion enjoyed by Mr. Pearce, and so strongly illultrated in these memoirs, is that Religion we are solicitous to spread, but excite many of your Readers, especially those who labour in the word and doctrine, to follow him as he followed Christ.

I am, yours, affectionately,

MICHAEL LONGRIDGE. _Mr, SAMUEL Pearce was born at Plymouth, July 26, 1766. When he was about sixteen years of age, it pleased God effectually to turn him to himself. After this he was baptized, and became a member of the Baptist Church at Plymouth, the ministers and members of which, in a few years, perceived in him talents for public usefulness. Being solicited by both his Paltors, he was exercised as a Probationer, and, being approved, entered on the Work of the ministry in November 1780. Notwithstanding the popularity, which even at that early period attended his ministerial Exercises, he never appeared to be elated, but was, uniformly the serious, industrious, docile, modest, and unassuming Christian. Towards the latter end of the year 1789, he was called to minister to the Church in Cannon-street, Birmingham, to which he was recommended by Mr. Hall, now of Cambridge, at that time one of his Tutors.

From his first coming to Birmingham, his meekness and patience were put to the trial, by an Antinomian spirit, which in. fected many individuals in the town, both in and out of his congregation. It was his practice to beseech finners to be reconciled VOL. XXIX. JAN. 1806.

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