Introduction

Biography

Turner re­ceived a class­ic­al edu­ca­tion, and for ma­ny years ran a board­ing school at Hem­el Hemp­stead, but in 1741 he be­came pas­tor of the Bap­tist church in Read­ing.

He moved to Abing­don in 1748, and pas­tored the Bap­tist church there un­til his death. He prob­ab­ly re­ceived an hon­or­ary de­gree of MA from the Bap­tist Col­lege in Pro­vi­dence, Rhode Is­land.

Works

• Open Com­mun­ion
• Social Re­li­gion
• Short Me­di­ta­tions on Se­lect Por­tions of Scrip­ture
• Divine Songs, Hymns and Other Po­ems (Lon­don & Read­ing: A. Ward & S. Black­man, 1747)
• Poems De­vo­tion­al and Mo­ral, 1794