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Samuel Chandler was born in 1693 at Hungerford, in Berkshire, where his father was a minister.
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Samuel Chandler was born in 1693 at Hungerford, in Berkshire, where his father was a minister.
Samuel Chandler was sent to school at Gloucester, where he began a lifelong friendship with Bishop Butler and Archbishop Seeker; and he afterwards studied at Leiden.
Samuel Chandler also received offers of high preferment in the Church of England.
He took a leading part in the deist controversies of the time, and discussed with some of the bishops the possibility of an act of comprehension.
During two or three years, having fallen into pecuniary distress through the failure of the South Sea scheme, he kept a book-shop in the Poultry.
This view was attacked in a pamphlet entitled The History of the Man after God's own Heart, in which the author complained of the parallel as an insult to the late king, and, following Pierre Bayle, exhibited King David as an example of perfidy, lust and cruelty.
Chandler condescended to reply first in a review of the tract (1762) and then in A Critical History of the Life of David, which is perhaps the best of his productions.
He left 4 vols.
of sermons (1768), and a paraphrase of the Epistles to the Galatians and Ephesians (1777), several works on the evidences of Christianity, and various pamphlets against Roman Catholicism.
Chandler condescended to reply first in a review of the tract (1762) and then in A Critical History of the Life of David, which is perhaps the best of his productions.
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Samuel Chandler was moderately Calvinistic in his views and leaned towards Arianism.
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