The Rev. William Nunn, the beloved and regretted minister of St. Clement’s Church, Manchester, was born May 13th, 1786, at Colchester, in Essex. He came into this world of sin and misery a weak and tender infant; for the first two or three years of his life he was so much afflicted, that it was frequently thought he was dead or dying. Little did his friends then anticipate that so fragile a bodily frame contained the spirit of one who would afterwards become an untiring labourer in the Gospel field. But “God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;” that according as it is written, “he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.” As Mr. N.…

Among the faithful men in the Church of England who have not shunned to declare the distinguishing doctrines of sovereign grace may well be mentioned the late Mr. William Nunn. He was one of that remarkable trio with which the town of Manchester was favoured in the early part of the present century viz., William Gadsby, William Nunn, and William Roby, men whose ministerial labours were greatly owned and blessed by the Lord. Though differing from each other in their communion, they were one in mind and heart upon those gracious verities which make for the everlasting peace of heaven-born souls. Mr. Nunn was born at Colchester, in Essex, on May 13th, 1786. For the first two or three years of his life he was…