Timothy Manlove (1663–1699) was an English Presbyterian minister and physician. Dying young, he is now known as a supporter of the anti-materialist philosophy of

Richard Bentley Richard Bentley FRS (; 27 January 1662 – 14 July 1742) was an English classical scholar, critic, and theologian. Considered the "founder of historical philology", Bentley is widely credited with establishing the English school of Hellenis ...

Life

Son of Edward Manlove the poet, he was born at Ashbourne,

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. He was educated at a

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, the

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school of John Woodhouse.''

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'', Manlove, Timothy (1663–1699), Presbyterian minister and author, by David L. Wykes. He was ordained at

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, near

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, on 11 September 1688, and his first known settlement was in 1691, at

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, where he was popular. In 1694 he was invited to the charge of

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; his ministry at Leeds was not supported well financially. He obtained some private practice as a physician. At first on good terms with

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the antiquary, he quarrelled with him on the subject of nonconformity. He moved in 1699 to

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as assistant to

Richard Gilpin Richard Gilpin (baptised 23 October 1625 – 13 February 1700) was an English nonconformist minister and physician, prominent in the northern region. Life The second son of Isaac Gilpin of Strickland Ketel, in the parish of Kendal, Westmorla ...

, but shortly died of a fever on 4 August 1699, in the prime of life, and was buried on 5 August. A

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, entitled ''The Comforts of Divine Love'', was published by Gilpin in 1700.

Works

He published: * ''The Immortality of the Soul asserted. … With … Reflections on a … Refutation of … Bentley's “Sermon,”'' &c., 1697, (against Henry Layton); *''Præparatio Evangelica … Discourse concerning the Soul's Preparation for a Blessed Eternity,'' &c. 1698.

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classes Manlove with

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for his ‘clear, weighty way of writing.’

Notes

;Attribution * {{DEFAULTSORT:Manlove, Timothy 1699 deaths 17th-century English medical doctors People from Ashbourne, Derbyshire 1663 births 17th-century English Presbyterian ministers