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See also:EMLYN, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1663–1741) , See also:English See also:nonconformist divine, was See also:born at See also:Stamford, See also:Lincolnshire. He served as See also:chaplain to the presbyterian Letitia, countess of See also:Donegal, and then to See also:Sir See also:Robert See also:Rich, afterwards (169,) becoming colleague to See also:Joseph Boyse, presbyterian See also:minister in See also:Dublin. From this See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office he was virtually dismissed on his own See also:confession of See also:unitarianism, and for See also:publishing An Humble Inquiry into the Scripture See also:Account of Jesus See also:Christ (1702) was sentenced to a See also:year's imprisonment and a See also:fine of £1000. Thanks to the intervention of Boyse he was released in 1705 on See also:payment of X90. He is said to have been the first English preacher definitely to describe himself as " unitarian," and writes in his See also:diary, "I thank See also:God that He did not See also:call me to this See also:lot of suffering till I had arrived at maturity of See also:judgment and firmness of See also:resolution, arid that He did not See also:desert me when my See also:friends did. He never let me be so See also:cast down as to renounce the truth or to waver in my faith." Of Christ he writes, " We may regard with fervent gratitude so See also:great a benefactor, but our esteem and rational love must ascend higher and not See also:rest till it centre in his God and ours." Emlyn preached a See also:good See also:deal in See also:Paul's See also:Alley, See also:Barbican, in his later years, and died in See also:London in 1741.
End of Article: EMLYN, THOMAS (1663–1741)
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