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. — John Shaqi
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.
Bell, Robert
Church, J. (John), approximately 1780-approximately 1825 -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Sodomy) -- England
“God is frequently going forth, and we also are often going to the
window to look for him; The more _vile I am_ made to appear to the
_World_ the more _God_ will _assist_ me. Every citizen is a
free-born. Many have wondered how I could go thro’ so much trouble.
There have been a great many that have wished to see me—I can inform
them I had much rather they had wished to see Christ. People may be
laughed at for being fools, but you may depend upon it the more God
will like them. All that believe not will certainly be damned. The
duties of Christianity are not to be preached to an ungodly world;
John Church is very much spoken of, but they had much better speak of
Jesus; the people of the established church feel no spiritual joy.
Spiritual discourse is enlivening to the senses, &c. The bread of
life is not to be given away to _Dogs_. I am not going to turn
auctioneer, but I am going to inform you that next Lord’s Day I am
going to publish a book proving that God the Son, and the Spirit, are
all one great God. My sermon will be good news and comfort to all
poor sinners; Satan and all his spirits never sleeps; the power of
life and death is only in the hands of our Lord Jesus Christ. Devils
are allowed to harrass the people of God day and night—no wonder they
perplex those they cant destroy. People are mostly liable to fall in
their first love into awful heresies and temptation. All the Lord’s
people do not see into the glory of my text—’tis like a jewel in a
rock of Adamant. The worst sin was the murdering of God’s saints.
When I sit in darkness the Lord will be a light unto me. Many men
laugh at the doctrine of the new birth,—are there not many learned
Doctors that know nothing of it? Let a man come under any
circumstances I will receive him;—Don’t laugh at the doctrine of
inspiration; he wise, it has often been preached by our church,—I am
never tired of preaching, and I believe my dear brethren are never
tired of hearing me. If every one that is saved should be as bright
as the sun, what a place heaven must be, where there will be so many
millions! Angels beckon me away, and Christ bids me come. The sight
of Christ, you may depend on’t, will be worth suffering for. O that
I had the voice of an archangel, I would indeed do wonders. I doubt
the superiority of one angel over another in heaven—Christ is
entirely independent, of or with God. We must have the spirit of God
before we are his people. Believe in the predestination of eternal
life, but not in eternal death; people that suffer were beforehand
predestined so to do, _by God_. Bad or horrid is the religion of a
proud Pharisee. That religion that is preached by the people of God
is God himself. There can be no going forth until the Spirit of God
has entered.
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