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nal sin , Mr . Winter held up the Bible and said to his opponents , " Remember that , from this book , you cannot prove the imputation of Adam ' s sin to his posterity , and yet you condemn me for not believing that doctrine 3 "
Mr . Rees Vaughan , one of the ministers present at that meeting , has informed me that he understood this was intended as the final examination of Mr . Winter ; that he was , with his
adherents , to be excluded from the church of Hengod , —and added that one of the ministers said to him , " Well , Mr . W . I am sorry we must divide / 5 If Mr . Thomas be correct in the History of the Baptists , the Annual Assembly had advised the exclusion ^ . If so , and the act be severe , it is not to be charged to the account of Hengod church alone . After consulting ; many friends both far and near , this church
excommunicated Mr . Winter with twenty-four other members , publicly , at the administration of the Lord ' s Supper ; not for immorality , but for acknowledging that they entertained the
sentiment , that the benevolence of the Deity is such , that he willeth not the death of the sinner , but that all should come to the knowledge of the truth , and that all men may be saved if they will . A minister from Pembrokeshire who was present , was desired to pronounce the sentence of exclusion , but refused , saying , " Not I ; I would rather be excluded myself than be obliged to do it . " Howeverthe ceremony was soon
performed by the Rev . Miles Harris of Ponty Pool , the neighbour , companion , and friend © f Mr . W . in his younger days . The charge against him and his adherents was , ** That they held general redemption and free will—Arminianism , and the doctrines of Pelagius ; V and the sentence was , < c Yr wyf yn eu bwrw hwy allan , ond nid i ' r byd /* i . e , / cast them out but not
into the world . It may be proper here to declare my full conviction of the truth of the facts before-mentioned . They were collected from a manuscript volume , left by Mr . Winter , to his successors in the church of Craigfargod ; from the testimony of the above-mentioned J . Isaac my grandfather , Edm . Rees , and many other worthy fellow-sufferers of Mr . W . in the cases already stated , and of other respectable persons who were present at several of the above transactions , and from Mr . Thomas ' s
History of . the Baptists . They were collected with a view to oppose two assertions , which crept , perhaps unawares , jnto that History . The first is , " That Mr . W . and his friends separated or seceded from the church of Hengod 5 " and the other ,
* See Emendation ; , p . 11 .
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116 Rev . Charles-Winter .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1806, page 116, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1722/page/4/
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