Career
He was later to publish Hannah"s diary in 1774 as The Power and Pleasure of Divine Phoebe and Richard were both correspondents of Philip Doddridge. Her diary was published by the SPCK. He received his education for the ministry at Tewkesbury, in Gloucestershire, under the famous regime of Samuel Jones, academy tutor. Pearsall was ordained at Bromyard in Herefordshire in 1721, where he spent ten years of his ministry.
From here, he moved to Warminster, in Wiltshire, where he remained for 16 years.
His third and most important ministry was at Taunton, in Somerset, where he met opposition to his orthodox Calvinist Trinitarianism. He was minister here for about 15 years, from 1747 to 1762.
