The Importance of Learning. A Sermon preached before an Assembly of Ministers at Manchester, May 21 1760. Warrington, [n.p.], 1760.

HOLLAND, Philip

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8vo, xviii pp., disbound, outer leaves slightly marked, a crease running through the lower margin, otherwise good. First edition. The sermon was reprinted in the English Preacher, vol. 9, (1773). Philip Holland lived from 1721 to 1789. 'Philip Holland s theology was that of the Arminian Presbyterian divines of his day. At Wolverhampton he is described as being more liberal than his former tutor and out of step with the majority of the congregation who were inclined for the most part to the tenets of Calvin. He was influenced by John Seddon of Warrington, who introduced him to the moral philosophy of Francis Hutcheson. He was most probably an Arian by the time of his Lancashire pastorate. . Holland s congregation flourished and was enlarged in 1760. Richard Arkwright, cotton spinning entrepreneur and pioneer of the factory system, was a member of the Bank Street congregation between 1750 and 1767. Holland ran a boarding school in Bolton, training, amongst others, Josiah Wedgewood s son. He assisted Seddon in the foundation of the Warrington Academy in 1757 and contributed to the debate over the introduction of liturgical forms into dissenting worship, writing the third service in A Form of Prayer and a New Collection of Psalms, for the use of a congregation of Protestant Dissenters in Liverpool (1763), generally known as the Liverpool Liturgy. ESTC: UK 7 copies, US 3 copies Harvard, Newberry, Univ. Missouri. Seller Inventory # ABE-1502869752081

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