Background
Barling was born at Weymouth 11 August 1804.
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John Barling
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He was educated for the ministry at Homerton, and settled as a congregationalist minister at Square Chapel, Halifax, in 1829.
Career
His opinions becoming unitarian, he resigned his charge in 1834, and became a worshipper at Northgate End Chapel. After a sojourn of some years in the south of England he returned to Halifax, and made public manifestation of his new views in some lectures on the Atonement (1849) at Northgate End, of which he became minister in January 1854 on the death of William Turner. He left four sons. He had a mind of metaphysical power, and a spirit never embittered by controversy.
He published: 1.
‘A Review of Trinitarianism, chiefly as it appears in the writings of Bulletin, Waterland, Sherlock, Howe, Newman, Coleridge, Wallis, and Wardlaw,’ London 1847. 2. ‘Leaves from my Writing Desk, being tracts on the question, What do we Know?.
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By an Old Student,’ 1872 (anon) He left manuscript essays on ‘Idealism and Scepticism,’ and on ‘Final Causes.’.
