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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. — John Shaqi

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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

The MOB is seldom stirred up but thro’ Priests, there
    is now a case of the very kind; when envy bursts forth thro’ jealous
    and envious neighbouring _Priests_, and published by _Deists_, there
    can be nothing to fear; and I verily believe that any thing prayed
    for to Christ will certainly be granted, as has always been the case
    with me.  Let us for ever endeavour to turn every thing, whether good
    or bad, into good.  I do not not believe that God begot Jesus
    Christ—they say too that Joseph was an impostor at this very
    day;—every thing that is done against the church is done against
    Christ; also that which is done against Christ is done against the
    Church; and any thing done against the people of God is done against
    Christ.  It is a most blessed thing that we can throw our burthens
    upon Christ;—I do not care who hears me, whether _God_, or _Man_,
    _Friends_, or _Foes_, _Devils_ or _Angels_, or any thing else, and
    let them call me an Antinomian again if they please.  There must be
    spiritual life in the soul.  The Lord Jesus Christ and the people of
    God are all one.  Christ has no sorrow but the people of God must
    sympathise with him; and the people of God have no affliction but
    that Christ sympathises with them.”

{20}  Alluding to his being turned out of Banbury.

{21}  Before Church got to bed to young Clark, he scoffed at secret
prayer.  What abominable hypocrisy, to hear the same man pretending to
pray before a public congregation, where he can get himself paid for his
devotions! how he must hate and despise himself on account of his own
most odious cant!!!

{22}  A full proof of this has been given, in the falsehoods he has
repeatedly urged, to ward off the charges brought against him in these
papers.

{27}  I am informed that Church belongs to that sect called ANTINOMIANS,
which is thus described by the Rev. John Evans in his “Sketch of the
Denominations of the Christian World”:—

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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