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Religion & Morality Vindicated, Against Hypocrisy and Pollution: Or, an Account of the Life and Character of John Church the Obelisk Preacher, Who Was Formerly a Frequenter of Vere-street, and Who Has Been Charged With Unnatural Practices in Various Places. To Which Is Annexed, a Fac-simile of a Letter, Written by Him to James Cook, Who Kept the Infamous House in Vere-street.Bell, Robert

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Religion & Morality Vindicated, Against Hypocrisy and Pollution: Or, an Account of the Life and Character of John Church the Obelisk Preacher, Who Was Formerly a Frequenter of Vere-street, and Who Has Been Charged With Unnatural Practices in Various Places. To Which Is Annexed, a Fac-simile of a Letter, Written by Him to James Cook, Who Kept the Infamous House in Vere-street.

Name: Religion & Morality Vindicated, Against Hypocrisy and Pollution: Or, an Account of the Life and Character of John Church the Obelisk Preacher, Who Was Formerly a Frequenter of Vere-street, and Who Has Been Charged With Unnatural Practices in Various Places. To Which Is Annexed, a Fac-simile of a Letter, Written by Him to James Cook, Who Kept the Infamous House in Vere-street.
Author: Bell, Robert

Bell, Robert

Church, J. (John), approximately 1780-approximately 1825 -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Sodomy) -- England

Transcribed from the [1813] R. Bell second edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org  Many thanks to the Bodleian and British Library for
allowing their copies to be consulted.

                   [Picture: Public domain book cover]

                            _Second Edition_.

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                           RELIGION & MORALITY
                               VINDICATED,
                                 AGAINST
                        _Hypocrisy and Pollution_;


                                   OR,

                            AN ACCOUNT OF THE
                            LIFE AND CHARACTER
                                    OF
                               John Church

                                   THE
                            OBELISK PREACHER,
                     WHO WAS FORMERLY A FREQUENTER OF
                               VERE-STREET,
                      AND WHO HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH
                          _UNNATURAL PRACTICES_
                            IN VARIOUS PLACES.

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                           TO WHICH IS ANNEXED,

                       _A Fac-simile of a Letter_,
                WRITTEN BY HIM TO JAMES COOK, WHO KEPT THE
                      INFAMOUS HOUSE IN VERE-STREET.

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                                 LONDON:
    _Printed by and for R. Bell_, _Proprietor of the Sunday Dispatch_,
                      _Bride Lane_, _Fleet Street_.
     Sold by all the Booksellers and Newsvenders in Town and Country

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TO THE PUBLIC.


THE following statements will fully explain the motives which induced the
Editor to expose the crimes of the individual who is the subject of them.
The demand for those numbers of the WEEKLY DISPATCH in which they
appeared, was so great, that many hundreds of persons were unable to
procure the papers, as no more could be printed than those which were
called for on the days of publication.  The Editor, therefore, wishing to
extend his efforts in defence of religion and morality as widely as
possible, by holding up to all mankind a true picture of a blasphemous
hypocrite who is a contemner of the one and a violator of the other, has
thought it advisable to publish the whole of his narratives and remarks
in a separate pamphlet; to which are subjoined many additional facts that
could not appear in a Sunday Paper.  The reason this publication has been
so long delayed was, in expectation that JOHN CHURCH would have been
brought to trial in the beginning of June, for an abominable offence with
which he stands charged and committed, but as there is some reason to
suspect that this trial will be put off even at the ensuing Sessions for
the County of Middlesex, the public curiosity cannot be kept any longer
unsatisfied.

_June_ 30, 1813.




JOHN CHURCH,
_THE OBELISK PREACHER_.


_Extract from the Weekly Dispatch of April_ 18.

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