Job Orton

He entered the academy of Dr Philip Doddridge at Northampton, became minister of a congregation formed by a fusion of Presbyterians and Independents at High Street Chapel, Shrewsbury (1741), received Presbyterian ordination there (1745), resigned in 1766 owing to ill-health, and lived in retirement at Kidderminster, Worcestershire, until his death.

[3] He exerted great influence both among dissenting ministers and among clergy of the established church.

He was deeply read in Puritan divinity, and adopted Sabellian doctrines on the Trinity.

Old-fashioned in most of his views, he disliked the tendencies alike of the Methodists and other revivalists and of the rationalizing dissenters, yet he had a good word for Joseph Priestley and Theophilus Lindsey.

[1] Among his numerous works which include sermons, discourses and essays are Memoirs of Doddridge (published 1766),[3] Letters to Dissenting Ministers (ed by S. Palmer, 2 vols., 1806), and Practical Works (2 vols., with letters and memoir, 1842).