CHANDLER, SAMUEL (1693-1766)

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CHANDLER, SAMUEL (1693-1766) , English Nonconformist divine, was born in 1693 at Hungerford, in Berkshire, where his father was a minister. He was sent to school at Gloucester, where he began a lifelong friendship with Bishop Butler and Archbishop Seeker; and he afterwards studied at Leiden. His talents and learning were such that he was elected fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies, and was made D.D. of Edinburgh and Glasgow. He also received offers of high preferment in the Church of England. These he refused, remaining to the end of his life in the position of a Presbyterian minister. He was moderately Calvinistic in his views and leaned towards Arianism. He took a leading part in the deist controversies of the time, and discussed with some of the bishops the possibility of an act of comprehension. From 1716 to 1726 he preached at Peckham, and for

forty

FORTY

years he was pastor of a meeting-

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

in Old Jewry. During two or three years, having fallen into pecuniary distress through the failure of the

South

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

Sea

scheme

SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)

, he kept a book-shop in the Poultry. On the death of George II. in 176o Chandler published a sermon in which he compared that king to King David. This view was attacked in a pamphlet entitled The History of the Man after God's own Heart, in which the author complained of the parallel as an insult to the

late

LATE

king, and, following Pierre Bayle, exhibited King David as an example of perfidy, lust and cruelty. Chandler condescended to reply first in a

review

REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

of the

tract

TRACT (from Lat. tractare, to treat of a matter, through Provencal tractat and Ital. trattato)

(1762) and then in A

Critical

CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

History of the Life of David, which is perhaps the best of his productions. This

work

WORK

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

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