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Thomas Emlyn

English clergyman and writer
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Born:
May 27, 1663, Stamford, Lincolnshire, Eng.
Died:
July 30, 1741, London (aged 78)

Thomas Emlyn (born May 27, 1663, Stamford, Lincolnshire, Eng.—died July 30, 1741, London) was an English Presbyterian minister and writer who first publicly adopted the name Unitarian to designate a liberal, rational approach to God as a single person (as opposed to Christian belief in the Trinity). Emlyn began preaching before he was 20. He served as a private chaplain to two aristocratic households in England and Ireland (1683–90) and in 1690 became pastor of a Presbyterian congregation in Dublin. In 1702 he was expelled by the Dublin presbytery after publishing An Humble Inquiry into the Scripture Account of Jesus ...(100 of 141 words)

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