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conipai > jr with several Qt p $ ? i £ c $ t lytjsty and thorough-paced friends ^ t a ^ rlafo public-housewhich lay in ^ belr way * , and there ? ^© ver their sups , farmed ' tjije p jan oftheirfuture ^ process ^ gaipstthekdevoted brother , * '« The foUowing Sunday was cox ^ imunion-dajr , £ nd he was then absent , having gone to preach at another place .
On the morning of that day , the ^ officiating minister ( he vvho had taken the lead at the former meeting , w ^ ose n $ . me *? Benjamin David or Davis ) went about , with others of his copfidants , among the p rincipal members ^ to get them to consent to the ' expulsion of their absent and innocent brother . Some acquiesced , and others refused . The
communion-meeting was he Id in the afternoon . When the common or public service was ended , many of the hearers staid behind * as usual , itjt the galleries and other parts © f the house , as devout spectators of the administration of the ordinance of the Lord's Supper ; but they were sodn ordered to withdraw , and they aceprcl *
ingiy retired to the meeting-yard ; which they had no sooner done , than they were again ordered to stand or get still further bffi ft # any of them , accordingly , walked out of the yard , and some , I think , went home . The infuriated minister and his myrmidons then proceeded to the preconcerted bu dness , and . a strange s ceri £ of confusion ens ued , attended with a most violent noise and
uproar , which aoon attracted the attention , and drew back the people who Jiad withdrawn to the yard and the road beyond it . Several of the members objected to the proposed measure of excommunicating their absent and niuch respected brother ; but these Were overawed with furious threats of being themselves involved in the same
condemnation , in case they persisted in their opposition ; and their voice was drowned in the foaming and thunderin g vociferations of the . minister and his zealous abettors . He there solemnly protested , that he -would even " suffer himself to
be torn limb from limb , rather than tolerate in th « church such ^ angeroMs errors as he imputed to David Thomas ; and that he would sooner haveforgiy ^ n him had he committed fornication ^ f ^ different times [ ° liie reason he a $ -
s ^ gncd some t ime after fofc ; last , yery Teixbarjkable and extraordinary assertion wasitliaflici Ibolt ^ d upon errors injiidgment a ^ At worse th * u errors in conduct
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pr priact | i <; e ! The Pesiut of the business w 4 ? i tha ^ the deyot ^ d memfcer was ^ o * Jjemnjy ^ xconimianicat ^ i , and religiously delivered to Satan , inf ^ the n ^ rne of thf J-. ord ! An appeal was spine time after jpade , from the press , to the ministers jLii < i churches in connexion with ribe sai ^ i ( iurch on the manifest impropriety an ^ iniquity -of these proceedings , but with - out success To rescind what had beea
jjohe wasjiajdl f to be expected ; and to pass any thing like a censure upon thjb ^ b ove conduct of Mr , B . Davis and his coadjutors would have looked , it see ms ^ too much like countenancing Armixiiafl abominations , or errors in Judgment \ thp most intojerable of all errors * ; The Appellant was impudently charged witp . misrepresentation and calumny ^ on which he again repeatedly cjhallcngejfcl his accusers , from the press , * to prove ^ single instance of misrepresentation pf falsehood in » his former statement :. thi ^
however , they have never condescended or attiemptedto do to this day . " The above unrighteous and ovitr rageous treatment David Thomas bo % e with singular meekness and patience . | t set him upon serious enquiry after truth , the result of which was , that he sopp after joined the General Baptists , among
whom he afterwards preached wim much and ; increasing acceptance . 3 ut being very desirous to obtain some literary advantage , he was in 1801 admitte / d as a student into Mr . Evans * s academy , where his good and exemplary behaviour soon gained the approbation and
esteem of his worthy tutor , and of all who . were Acquainted ; with him . £ | e alterwards supplied , for more than tv ^ o years , a General . Baptist church at JLutton in Lincolnshire , where his judicious edifying ministry , and his universal ly becoming deportment met with general and deserved acceptance . The people
there wished him , to continue with them and accept the pastoral charge , but fee could not , prevail with himsej [ ^ to . cpmp | y withTtheir wishes . He lefc -th&t sitivation last summer , to ^ he gTeatrregret |> f a wide circle of friend ^ , and . ^ etir ^ dl to Wales , his native country , wijtrh a , vi « wr
* ¦«/ 4 . S if fhcerrors which one t an ^ oi falfr itrete pf all others the mo § t crinji-Mm wi junpardonablc ; and yet the mm w ^ liiO advance such sentiments prpfes * , fo&mb * tp h < t yery rea LiirJica 43 ^ o . t 6 nght t £ vrvt ? kU judgment t
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1806, page 273, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1724/page/49/
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