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JAY, WILLIAM (1769-1853)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 296 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAY, See also:WILLIAM (1769-1853) , See also:English See also:Nonconformist divine, was See also:born at Tisbury in See also:Wiltshire on the 6th of May 1769. He adopted his See also:father's See also:trade of See also:stone-See also:mason, but gave it up in 1785 in See also:order to enter the Rev. See also:Cornelius See also:Winter's school at See also:Marlborough. During the three years that Jay spent there, his See also:preaching See also:powers were rapidly See also:developed. Before he was twenty-one he had preached nearly a thousand times, and in 1788 he had for a while occupied See also:Rowland See also:Hill's See also:pulpit in See also:London. Wishing to continue his See also:reading he accepted the humble pastor-See also:ate of See also:Christian Malford, near See also:Chippenham, where he remained about two years. After one See also:year at See also:Hope See also:chapel, See also:Clifton, he was called to the See also:ministry of Argyle See also:Independent chapel in See also:Bath; and on the 3oth of See also:January 1791 he began the See also:work of his See also:life there, attracting hearers of every religious See also:denomination and of every See also:rank, and winning for himself a wide reputation as a brilliant pulpit orator, an See also:earnest religious author, and a friendly counsellor. See also:Sheridan declared him to be the most manly orator he had ever heard. A See also:long and See also:honourable connexion of sixty-two years came to an end in January 1853, and he died on the 27th of See also:December following. The best-known of Jay's See also:works are his See also:Morning and Evening Exercises: The Christian contemplated: The Domestic See also:Minister's Assistant; and his Discourses. He also wrote a Life of Rev. Cornelius Winter, and See also:Memoirs of Rev.

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John See also:Clarke. An edition of Jay's Works in.12 vols., 8vo, revised by himself, was issued in 1842-1844, and again in 1856. A new edition, in 8 vols., 8vo, was published in 1876. See Autobiography (1854); S. See also:Wilson's Memoir of Jay (1854); S. Newth in Pulpit Memorials (1878).

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