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ORTON, JOB (1717–1783)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 342 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ORTON, See also:JOB (1717–1783) , See also:English dissenting See also:minister, was See also:born at See also:Shrewsbury on the 4th of See also:September 1717. He entered the See also:academy of Dr See also:Philip See also:Doddridge at See also:Northampton (q.v.), became minister of a See also:congregation formed by a See also:fusion of Presbyterians and See also:Independents at High See also:Street See also:Chapel, Shrewsbury (1741), received Presbyterian ordination there (1745), resigned in 1766 owing to See also:ill-See also:health, and lived in retirement at See also:Kidderminster until his See also:death. He exerted See also:great See also:influence both among dissenting ministers and among See also:clergy of the established See also:church. He was deeply read in Puritan divinity, and adopted Sabellian doctrines on the Trinity. Old-fashioned in most of his views, he disliked the tendencies alike of the Methodists and other revivalists and of the rationalizing dissenters, yet he had a See also:good word for See also:Priestley and See also:Theophilus See also:Lindsey. Among his numerous See also:works are Letters to Dissenting Ministers (ed. by S. See also:Palmer, 2 vols., 18o6), and See also:Practical Works (2 vols., with letters and memoir, 1842).

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