SHEEN
,
THOMAS
(
1718
-
1790
),
Methodist exhorter, afterwards an Antinomian
.
He was christened in
Glascwm church, Rads.
,
8 Nov. 1718
, the son of
William
and
Margaret
Sheen
of
the parish. No information is available as to when he started
exhorting
in the
Methodist societies
. In
1748
he succumbed to the ‘heretical’ doctrines propounded by
James
Beaumont
(q.v.)
. In
1750
he adhered to
Howel
Harris
's (q.v.)
party, but soon afterwards left it and
formed his own sect
in the district round
Builth
. He is said to have influenced others, such as
Moses
Lewis
(q.v.)
and
Thomas
Meredith
(q.v.)
. It is believed that the doctrines preached by him and his associates were a mixture of mysticism and Monophysitism (or, perhaps, Apollinarianism). One of his followers,
Walter
Watkin
of
Brecon
, wrote an elegy in his memory. He d.
28 Feb. 1790
.
Bibliography:
-
W. Watkin
,
Marwnad Thomas Sheen
, 1790
,
1790
;
-
Methodistiaeth Cymru
, 1851–6
, iii, 316;
-
Robert Jones (Rhoslan)
,
Drych yr
AmseroeddY Llenor
(Rhoslan) , 1820; another ed. [1841]; 's ed. in , xv–xvi, 1898.
There is now a new edition ed.
(University of Wales Press, 1958)
,
1820
, 136;
-
Y Tadau Methodistaidd
, 1895
, i, 226;
-
J. Gwili Jenkins
,
Hanfod Duw a Pherson Crist athrawiaeth y
Drindod a Duwdod Crist, yn bennaf yn ei pherthynas â
Chymru
, Liverpool, 1931
, 140;
-
Cambrian Bibliography
, Llanidloes, 1869
, 652;
-
The Radnorshire Society. Transactions
,
1931 ff
, xiv,
1944
;
-
Y Traethodydd
,
1946
, 97-102.
Author:
Rev. Gomer Morgan Roberts, M.A., (1904-93), Pont-rhyd-y-fen / St
Dogmael's / Llandybïe
