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<p> an English Wesleyan minister (nephew of [[Jonathan]] Catlow, an early Methodist preacher, who withdrew a short time before his death on accountof a disagreement with [[Wesley]] on the doctrine of sin in believers; cousin of James Catlow, who died when about taking orders in the [[Church]] of England, and of Samuel Catlow, a Socinian minister, and father of Jonathan Edmondson, of the Wesleyan Conference), was born at Keighley, Yorkshire, March 24, 1767. He was converted in 1784, was sent by Wesley to the Epworth [[Circuit]] in 1786, and retired a supernumerary at [[Portsmouth]] in 1838. He died July 7, 1842. Dr. Edmondson was eminently a holy and laborious minister, and was highly esteemed by his brethren. In 1814 he was made one of the general secretaries of the Missionary Society, in which office he labored beyond his strength. In 1818 he was elected president of the conference sitting in Leeds. He was a voluminous reader, a diligent student, a lucid expositor, an evangelical preacher, and a faithful pastor. During his busy ministry he wrote some valuable books: Short Sermons on Important Subjects ( Lond. 1807, 1829, 2 volumes, 8vo ): — A Concise System of Self-government (ibid. 1815; 3d ed. 1834, 12mo): — Sermons on the Nature and [[Offices]] of the Holy [[Ghost]] (ibid. 1823; 2d ed. 1837): — Essay on the [[Christian]] [[Ministry]] (ibid. 1828,12mo): — [[Scripture]] Views of the [[Heavenly]] [[World]] (ibid. 1835, 12mo; 3d ed. 1850, 18mo): — [[Elements]] of Revealed [[Religion]] (1839, 12mo). See Wesl. Meth. Mag. 1850, pages 1, 113; Minutes of the British Conference, 1842. </p>

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