He was innate at Tisbury in Wiltshire. He adopted his fathers trade of stone-mason, however gave it higher inside 1785 sequentially to enter a Revolutions per minute. Cornelius Winter's school at Marlborough. When you took a trio years that Jay spent there, his preaching powers were apace developed. Prior to he was twenty-the single he experienced preached about a thous& days, and inside 1788 he experienced awhile occupied Rowland Hill's pulpit within London. Wish to prove my point his reading he accepted a humble pastorate of Christian Malford, near Chippenham, where he remained astir 2 years. When 1 month at Hope chapel, Clifton, he was called to the ministry of Argyle Independent chapel within Bath; & on the 30th of January 1791 he began the act of his life there, attracting listener of each religious denomination & of each rank, & winning for himself the wide reputation as a brilliant stump speechmaker, an earnest religious creator, and a friendly counsellor. Sheridan declared him to be a virtually all manlike speechifier he experienced ever heard. An extended & honorable connection of sixty-both years come to an prevent inside January 1853, & he died on the 27th of December resulting.

A right-known of Jay's works come his Morning & Evening Exercises; A Christian contemplated; A House servant Ministers Assistant; & his Discourses. He too wrote the Life of Revolutions per minute. Cornelius Winter, & Memoirs of Rpm. John Clarke. An edition of Jay's Works within Dozen vols., Eightvo, revised by himself, was issued around 18421ff44, & once more around 1856. The just released edition, around Viii vols., Octavo, was promulgated within 1876.

Understand Autobiography (1854); S. Wilsons Memoir of Jay (1854); S. Newth inside Ambo Memorials (1878).