Transcribed from the [1817] John Fairburn edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org [Picture: Public domain book cover] FIFTH EDITION, _Church burnt in Effigy_! _Rev. J. L. Garrett’s Vindi-_ _cation_, _the Whole of the Evidence_, _&c. &c._ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HAY & TURNER have had the affrontery to call their Scribble the only Genuine Edition! whereas, it is not so correct as FAIRBURN’S.—_John Church_. * * * * * THE TRIAL AND CONVICTION OF THAT _INFAMOUS HYPOCRITE_ JOHN CHURCH, The SURREY TABERNACLE PREACHER, BOROUGH-ROAD, ST. GEORGE’S FIELDS, FOR AN Abominable Offence; INCLUDING THE WHOLE OF THE EVIDENCE; Tried before LORD ELLENBOROUGH, at the Surrey Assizes, Croydon, Saturday, August 16, 1817. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TAKEN IN SHORT HAND. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TO WHICH IS ADDED, HIS LIFE, CONFESSIONS, NOTES OF ONE OF HIS SERMONS, THE WHOLE OF THE LOVE-LETTERS, &c. &c. * * * * * “_Woe unto you_, Scribes and Pharisees, _Hypocrites_! for ye compass sea and land to make _one Proselyte_; and, when he is made, ye make him _two-fold more the child of Hell_ than yourselves.” “Ye Serpents! ye generation of Vipers! _how can ye escape the damnation of Hell_?” ST. MATTHEW, CHAP. xxiii. v. 15 & 33. * * * * * LONDON: Published by JOHN FAIRBURN, 2, Broadway, Ludgate-Hill. (_Price Sixpence_.) * * * * * Marchant, Printer, Ingram-court, London. * * * * * SURREY ASSIZES, CROYDON, _Saturday_, _August_ 16, 1817. THE KING v. JOHN CHURCH.