Author: FLEXMAN (Roger):
Title: The Connexion and Harmony of Religion and Virtue delineated in the Character of Abraham. A Sermon Preached in St. Thomas's, Southwark, January 1, MDCCLII. For the Benefit of the Charity-School in Gravel-Lane, Southwark.
Description: London: Printed for James Waugh..., and A. Millar..., 1752. FIRST EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), 185 x 105 mms., pp. 51 [adverts]; disbound. Roger Flexman (1708–1795) should be of some interest to literary historians. Educated in John Moore's Presbyterian academy, he became a minister at the age of 20, but gradually began to lose his faith: J. Waddington, in Surrey Congregational History (1866), said of him, "Dr Flexman devoted his extensive learning to the work of undermining the faith of the Gospel. … He was greatly out of place as pastor of a Christian Church, and left only a nominal society at Jamaica Row [London] to prove the withering influence of error." Dr. Johnson remembered him as "the fellow who made the index to my Ramblers, and set down the name of Milton thus: Milton, Mr. John." Finally, he was the librarian of Dr. Williams's Library from 1786 to 1792.

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