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. To Which Is Added, His Life, Confessions, Notes of One of His Sermons, the Whole of the Love-letters, &c. &c. — John Shaqi
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. To Which Is Added, His Life, Confessions, Notes of One of His Sermons, the Whole of the Love-letters, &c. &c.Anonymous
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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. To Which Is Added, His Life, Confessions, Notes of One of His Sermons, the Whole of the Love-letters, &c. &c.
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Church, J. (John), approximately 1780-approximately 1825 -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Sodomy) -- England
As an orator, he delivers himself in a full, clear, articulate, tone of
voice; but, to criticise his style, or analyse the _substance_ of his
discourse, would be a fruitless labour; it would be like dissecting a
cobweb. Unmeaning rhapsodies and unconnected sentences, through which
the faintest gleam of morality is not to be traced, must, from their
evanescent nature, set the powers of recollection at defiance, they even
escape the lash of contempt. But, to gratify the reader, the following
_notes_ of a SERMON was taken down in short-hand as he delivered it:—
“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 through 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
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 harass the people of God day and
night,—no wonder they perplex those they can’t 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. I am never tired of preaching, and, I believe, my
dear brethren are never tired of hearing 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; be wise, it
has often been preached by our church. 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
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