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I I be sure it is , according to 2 Thess , ii . 8 . Rev . xiv . 8—id . An apostolical spirit would become a church that brags so much of an apostolical constitution . —Such a temper would dispose you to rejoice with the apostle that Christ is preaehedj whether in pretence or in truth . Phil . i . 15—18 . "
The memorable 1688 , which amazed the world , he remern ^ bered with a grateful astonishment Of the distress to which our ancestors were reduced before the Revolution , he expressed himself thus : ( cW were , as Isaac , bound to the altar— -the bloody knife was at our throat—all thirigs were ripe for
execution—an army of Papists and debauched Protestants were within our gates , ready to enslave us 1 Whither could we look for help in that dismal juncture ? In former persecutions God opened a sanctuary elsewhere ; but now the storm that threatened us was universal , and no place like to be safe : the power of the enemy reached to the ends of the earth . The American churches felt the malignant influence of our constellations t their foundations were overturned , and themselves left to the
mercy of arbitrary men / If we fled to Holland , alas ! it was but a morsel to the French tyrant , Scotland was enslaved . Ireland in possession of a bloody barbarous people , that wanted neither power nor hereditary inclination to bathe themselves in Protestant blood . We expected the second part of the French
tragedy to be acted here , and knew not how soon we mi g ht be dragooned out of our religion and lives . In this dismal state of things ¦* the Lord awaked as one out of sleep ; he smote his enemies , and put them to perpetual reproach , —PsaU Ixxviii . 75 , 76 /'
Towards the latter end of 1 690 he set up a lecture at Llanvyllin , in Montgomeryshire , at the house of Mr . John Griffiths ^ a gentleman of character . The first time he went there , the rabble surrounded the house , broke the windows , threw stones in among the people , and disturbed the congregation ire a most outrageous manner : the gentleman of the house com- *
ing to the door to appease the tumult , very narrowly escaped their fury . On , e of these poor wretches , being afterwards convinced of his folly , confessed to the gentleman ' s lady , that ** he had never prospered since he had lifted up his hand against the Gospel . " He had lectures also at Wrexham , where he preached often , and administered the Lord's Suprfer ; not to
instance in a great many other places , where his success always equalled his faithful and unwearied endeavours . v _^ About 1691 and 1692 the Baptists , being pretty much on the increase in the West of Wales , drew more than common attention and opposition to their distinguishing tenets , especially from the Presbyterians and Independents of those parts .
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^ Bi og raphical Sketches . Sg #
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1806, page 399, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1727/page/7/
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