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
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 before-hand predestined so to do _by God_. Bad or horrid
is the religion of a proud pharisee. The MOB is seldom stirred up
but through priests; there is now a case of the very kind: envy
bursts forth through 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 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. I do not believe that God begot Jesus Christ—they say too that
Joseph was an impostor, at this very day:—everything that is done
against the church is done against Christ; also, that which is done
against Christ is done against the church; and anything done against
the people of God is done against Christ. It is a most blessed thing
that we can throw our burthens upon Christ. 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. 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. This monster—when
he was about to preach, would frequently say to his
_favorites_;—“Well, I am going tip ’em a gammoning story, my old
women would believe the moon to be made of green cheese, If I was to
tell them so. And I must tell them something.”
In consequence of a respectable young tradesman, in the Borough, Mr. E—
B—, who was one of his hearers, becoming disgusted with his hypocrisy,
and some attempts he had made upon him, leaving him altogether, he wrote
the following beastly epistles:—
Had this wretch received a classical education, one might suppose he had
been writing a paraphrase on Virgil’s eclogue, beginning with the
line—_Formasum_ Pastor Corydon _Ardebat Alexin_.
Copy of a letter, written by the Rev. John Church, Minister of the
Obelisk-Chapel, Blackfriars’-Road, to Mr. E— B—, Rodney-Street,
Kent-Street, Borough, dated March 3, 1809.
“Dear Ned,
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