Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

CHANDLER, SAMUEL (1693-1766)

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 838 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

See also:

CHANDLER, See also:SAMUEL (1693-1766) , See also:English See also:Nonconformist divine, was See also:born in 1693 at See also:Hungerford, in See also:Berkshire, where his See also:father was a See also:minister. He was sent to school at See also:Gloucester, where he began a lifelong friendship with See also:Bishop See also:Butler and See also:Archbishop Seeker; and he afterwards studied at See also:Leiden. His talents and learning were such that he was elected See also:fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian See also:Societies, and was made D.D. of See also:Edinburgh and See also:Glasgow. He also received offers of high preferment in the See also:Church of See also:England. These he refused, remaining to the end of his See also:life in the position of a Presbyterian minister. He was moderately Calvinistic in his views and leaned towards Arianism. He took a leading See also:part in the deist controversies of the See also:time, and discussed with some of the bishops the possibility of an See also:act of comprehension. From 1716 to 1726 he preached at See also:Peckham, and for See also:forty years he was pastor of a See also:meeting-See also:house in Old Jewry. During two or three years, having fallen into pecuniary See also:distress through the failure of the See also:South See also:Sea See also:scheme, he kept a See also:book-See also:shop in the Poultry. On the See also:death of See also:George II. in 176o Chandler published a See also:sermon in which he compared that See also:king to King See also:David. This view was attacked in a pamphlet entitled The See also:History of the See also:Man after See also:God's own See also:Heart, in which the author complained of the parallel as an insult to the See also:late king, and, following See also:Pierre See also:Bayle, exhibited King David as an example of perfidy, lust and See also:cruelty. Chandler condescended to reply first in a See also:review of the See also:tract (1762) and then in A See also:Critical History of the Life of David, which is perhaps the best of his productions.

This See also:

work was just cornpleted when he died, on the 8th of May 1766. He See also:left 4 vols. of sermons (1768), and a See also:paraphrase of the Epistles to the See also:Galatians and See also:Ephesians (1777), several See also:works on the evidences of See also:Christianity, and various See also:pamphlets against See also:Roman Catholicism.

End of Article: CHANDLER, SAMUEL (1693-1766)

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.
Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.

Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.

[back]
CHANDLER, RICHARD (1738-1810)
[next]
CHANDLER, ZACHARIAH (1813-1879)