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In the following fpring, (March 28, 1766) he entered on the curacy of St. Andrew's church; the rev. Dearing Jones, rector of Navenby, in Lincolnshire, being then alfo vicar of that parish. Mr. Jebb was likewife appointed lecturer of St. Andrew's, in the room of the rev. Henry Hubbard, who had been in that place near twenty years..

On Mr. Jebb's re-fettlement in Cambridge, he again refumed the office and labour of private tutor, and had feven pupils attending him every day; adding to the accustomed labours of this employment, lectures in Butler's Analogy, on funday evenings. He also read lectures at Trinity-hall, in Tully's offices, for Dr. Ridlington, during the two first terms of this year; and applied himself to the ftudy of french and italian, under the inftruction of a friend.

October 10, 1766, Mr. Jebb and Mr. Watson, were again elected moderators, and at the annual election, in the following year, Mr. Jebb was re-elected, along with Mr. Thomas Stevens of Trinity; and, for the C 2 laft

last time, on 10th of October 1768, with Mr. John Hutton, of St. John's college.

In the year 1767, Mr. Jebb continued to take private pupils; to whom he also read lectures in the greek Teftament, on funday evenings; he likewife attended to his share in the conduct of the difputations in the schools, and to the care of the parish church of St. Andrew; and I find it generally obferved, by himself, that this year " he had frequent communications with Dr. Law." A note, which I confider as an acknowledgment of the information he ever fought, and derived, from one fo well informed in fcripture-knowledge, as the learned mafter of Peterhouse.

Mr. Chappelow, profeffor of arabic, died on the 14th of January, 1768. Upon his decease, Mr. Jebb offered himself a candidate for the profefforfhip. He had He had previously qualified himfelf in the arabic language, by much application and fludy, and, I have fome reafon to think, not without a view to that appointment, particularly as the very advanced age of Mr. Chappelow

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made a vacancy, an event that might naturally be expected at no very diftant time. The competitors for this office, were few: and I remember to have heard the general voice of the univerfity decidedly in favour of Mr. Jebb. There arofe, however, a candidate, whofe fuccefs, fuperfeded Mr. Jebb's well-founded pretenfions; and that candidate was his near relation, and, I believe, at that time, his friend. The perfon here meant was Dr. Samuel Hallifax, who was then the reprefentative, or deputy, of Dr. Ridlington, profeffor of civil law, to whofe chair he was confidered by himself as heir apparent, and to which he actually fucceeded in about two years afterwards. When the univerfity were difpofed to be friendly to our author, it is to be lamented. that he found an adverfary, who, from academical connections, had the greater intereft among the heads of houses, with whom lay the election. It is alfo to be regretted, that the fame gentleman, who was fo well affured of fucceeding foon to the chair of civil law, (the immediate line in which he was engaged) fhould impatiently feize the paffing

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paffing offer of the arabic profefforfhip, to the prejudice of another, who would fo honourably have filled it; and who would have devoted fome time, at least, to the teaching that language in the univerfity, which, it may be prefumed, was certainly in the contemplation of the founder.

Learning may more frequently fail of its pecuniary rewards, even in thofe feminaries appropriated for the cultivation of it, than of the fatisfaction it yields its owners in the profecution of their ftudies. Mr. Jebb confidered the advantages of the knowledge of the oriental languages as fully equivalent to the labour of attaining them, In his theological purfuits, he was ever defirous of drinking the living waters of the word of God, from the fountain-head; and he ufed, frequently, to exprefs the high pleasure and fatisfaction he derived from his acquaintance with the languages of the fcriptures; and from the correfpondent and collateral languages, which fo frequently throw light upon, and illustrate thofe of the facred text,*

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* In a private manufcript note, dated fubfequent to his fecond canvafs for the arabic profefforfhip, I find.

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On the 21ft of November, 1768, he entered on his courfe of lectures on the greek Teftament; concerning which, the " Short account" he afterwards published, will afford the best fatisfaction. In this employment he eminently increased his usefulness; and found, in his own reflections on the good work he was engaged in, that confolation, which fupported him under the bitterest and most unrelenting ill ufage; and to the last hour of his life, he enjoyed, in the review of his own improvement in the knowledge of the scriptures, and of his earneft endeavours to promote it in others, that fatisfaction, which the world could neither give, nor take away.

Dr. Hinchliffe, mafter of Trinity college, and vice-chancellor of Cambridge, drew the univerfity into the tender of no lefs acceptable an offering to the minifter, than a reprobation of the principles and conduct of the popular party of

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the following refolution. "Refolved to study the Koran in the original, with a view of extracting from thence evidences and explanations of the gospel."

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