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He was a son of Richard Taylor (d 1717), independent minister at Little Moorfields, London.
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Abraham Taylor
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His name occurs in a list (December 1727) of "approved ministers" among congregationalists in the London district, and in 1728 he became minister at Deptford. While these lectures were proceeding in 1730-1731, Taylor was ordained (1 January 1731), having been selected as divinity tutor for a new dissenting academy, established by the King"s Head Society (itself founded 1730). Soon Taylor clashed on a point of Calvinist theology with John Gill, another of the Lime Street lecturers.
He obtained a degree of Doctor of Divinity about the same time as Doddridge (1736).
Hugh Farmer believed in mid-1737 that Taylor was favoured. Samuel Clarke and David Jennings deprecated his influence with Coward.
Taylor, however, mismanaged his money affairs He lost character with Coward, and ceased to be tutor in 1740.
He ended his ministry at Deptford soon after.
He died in poverty, when and where being unclear.
