Lindsay, John (1), a learned English divine, who flourished about the middle of the 17th century, was ed- ucated at St. Mary's Hall, Oxford, and for many years officiated as a minister of the nonjuring society in Trin- ity Chapel, Aldersgate Street, and is said to have been their last minister. He was also for some time a cor- rector of the press for Mr. Bowyer, the printer. He fin- ished a long and useful life June 21, 1708. Mr. Lindsay published a Short History of the Regal Succession, etc., icith Remarks on Wkiston's Sc?-iptU7-e Politics, etc. (1720, 8vo) ; a translation of Mason's Vindication of the Church of England (1726, reprinted in 1728), which has a large and elaborate preface, containing " a fuU and particular series of the succession of our bishops, through the sev- eral reigns since the Reformation," etc. In 1747 he pub- lished Mason's Two Sermons irreached at Court in 1620. See Gen. Biog. Diet. s. v.
Lindsay, John (2), a Methodist Episcopal minis- ter, was born at Lynn, Mass., July 18, 1788; was con- verted in 1807 ; entered the New England Conference in 1809 ; was agent for the Wesleyan University in 1835-6 ; in 1837 was transferred to the New York Conference, and made presiding elder on New Haven District; next he fiUed two stations in New York City; in 1842 he was agent for the American Bible Society ; was transferred in 1845 to the Troy Conference ; was appointed to the Albany District in 1846 ; and died at Schenectady Feb. 10, 1850. Mr. Lindsay was an impressive and success- ful preacher, and a man of noble benevolence. He was very active in the founding of the Wesleyan Academy at Wilbraham, and the Wesleyan University. — Minutes of Conf. iv, 460 ; Stevens, Memorials of Methodism, voL ii.ch.xli. (G.L.T.)
Lindsey, Theopiiilus, an eminent English L^ni- tarian minister, was born at Middlewich, in Cheshire, June 20, 1723 (O. S.). He entered St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1741, and, after taking his degrees, was elected fellow in 1747. About this time he commenced his clerical duties at an Episcopal chapel in Spital Square, London. Later he became domestic chaplain to Alger- non, duke of Somerset, aftc* whose death he travelled two years on the Continent with Algernon's son. On his return, about 1753, he was presented to the living of Kirkby Wiske, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, and in 1756 he removed to that of Piddletown, in Dor-
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setshire. In 1760 he married a step-daughter of his intimate friend archdeacon Blackhurne, and in 1703, chiefly for the sake of enjoying his society, took the living of Catterick. Lindsey, who had felt some scru- ples "respecting subscription to the Thirty-nine Arti- cles even whUe at Cambridge, began now to entertain serious doubts concerning the Trinitarian doctrines, and by 1709 his association with the llev. William Turner, a" Presbyterian minister at Wakefield, and Dr. Priest- ley, then a Unitarian miiustcr at Leeds, gave a more decided coloring to his Antitrinitarian views, and he actually began to contemplate the duty of resigning his living. He was induced to defer that step by an attempt which was made in 1771, by several clergymen and gentlemen of the learned professions, to obtain re- lief from Parliament in the matter of subscription to the Thirty-nine Articles, and in which he joined heartily, travelling upwards of 2000 miles in the winter of that year to obtain signatures to the petition which was pre- pared. The petition was presented on the 6th of Feb- ruar\', 1772, with nearly 250 signatures, but, after a spir- ited debate, its reception was negatived by 217 to 71. It being intended to renew the application to Parliament at the next session, Lindsey still deferred his resigna- tion, but when the intention was abandoned he began to prepare for that important step. He drew up, in July,
1773, a copious and learned "Apology," and, notwith- standing the attempts of his diocesan and others to dis- suade him from the step, he formally resigned his con- nection with the Established Church, and, selling the greatest part of his library to meet his pecuniary exigen- cies, he proceeded to London, and on the 17th of April,
1774, began to ofhciate in a room in Essex Street, Strand, which, by the help of friends, he had been enabled to convert into a temporary chapel. His desire being to deviate as little as possible from the mode of worship mlopted in the Church of England, he used a liturgy very slightly altered from that modification of the na- tional chiu-ch-ser\'ice which had been previously pub- lished by Dr. Samuel Clarke. This modified liturgy, as well as his opening sermon, Lindsey published. His efforts to raise a Unitarian congregation proving suc- cessful, he commenced shortly afterwards the erection of a more permanent chapel in Essex Street, which was opened in 1778. Ilis published "Apology" having lieen attacked in print by Mr. Biu-gh, an Irish M.P., by Mr. Bingham, and by Dr. Randolph, Lindsey published a " Sequel" to it in 1776, in which he answered those writ- ers. In 1781 he published The Catechist, or an Inquiry into the Doctrine of the Scriptui-es concerning the only True God and Object of Relir/ious Worship ; in 1783. A Historical View of the State of the Unitarian Doctrine and Worship from the Reformation to ourovn Times, an elaborate work, which had been several years in prepa- ration; and in 1785, anonymoush", ^1 « Examination of Mr. Robinson of Cambridge s Plea for the Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, by a late Member of the University. In 1788 he published Vindicia- Priestleiance, a defence of his friend Dr. Priestley, in the form of an address to the students of Oxford and Cambridge ; and this was fol- lowed, in 1790, by a Second Address to the Students of Oxford and Cambridge 7-elating to Jesus Christ and the Origin of the great Errors concerning him. In 1782 he invited Dr. Disney, who then left the Established Church for the same reasons as himself, to become his colleague in the ministrj' at Essex Street ; and in 1793, on account of age and growing infirmities, he resigned the pastorate entirely into his hands, publishing on the occasion a farewell discourse (which he felt himself unable to preach) and a revised edition, being the fourth, of his liturgy. In 1795 he reprinted, with an original pref- ace, the Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever which Dr. Priestley had recently published in America in reply to Paine's Age of Reason ; and in 1800 he republished in like manner another of Priestley's works, on the knowledge which the Hebrews had of a future state. Lindscy's last work was published in 1802, entitled