On this page

• Text (1)

  Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

  • 

    Untitled Article

• Transcript

  • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

    Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

    Untitled Article

    afternoon , and the latter only for a lecture in the evening . The chapel in Dudley Court , bad been hired of Mr . Green by some friends of a Mr . Fisher of

    Norwich , to preach in for about two months , while he was in town on a visit . It will be necessary here to observe at that time I preached to a number of Unitarian friends

    on the Wednesday evenings at a house in Drury Lane , on passages of scripture which were chosen for that purpose by the audience , Mr . Fisher having left London ,

    roy friends were desirous of procuring the use of that chapel for public worship gn Sunday morning and afternoon , when it was unoccupied by Mr . Green .

    Accordingly myself with two others , were deputed to wait on , Mr . Green for that purpose We did so on the following Sunday between the services . Mr . Green

    came to the door , and having learned our business , sajd , * ' come in , and let me know who you are , and what you aiv . " We went in , and after some conversation he said to me , Sir , your doctrine is worse than the devil ' s , vou shall not

    hate my pi-acc . " I should have observed , that being informed the preceding week of the meeting in Fetter Lane for public discussion , I went on Friday night for the first time , to sec the nature ol

    it . On the Wednesday following after the service , we who had been deputrd to wait on Mr . Green , informed our brethren of the result of that business . On the Friday following , I went again to tlr- rueoiing in Fetter Lane ,

    ; is their pastor . A few years after , the chapel in Fetter Lane was burnt down , and wi h it n church book and many valuable letters and papers were consumed . A x . cv chapel was afterwards erected upon the spot , called Elim chapel , where Mr-Auatii ; still continues to be the minister .

    Untitled Article

    when a stranger ascended thfe pulpit and addressed the congre- * gation to the following effect : " My friends , I have to inform you that Mr . Green is out of town ,

    and there will be no disputing to night ; but I shall preach . My friends , I have a letter to read to you directed to Mr . Green . " He then read the letter , which was to the following effect : " I was at a meeting on Wednesday nighty

    in Drurv Lane , where one Marsom preached to about thirty ot Elliot ' s people , and after he had done , some of them said they had been to Mr . Green , and that he ( Mr . Green , ) roared like a hog upon a ladder" The writer then added , " that those thirty people

    0 mm ^ threatened to come in a body to Fetter Lawe on Friday evening , headed by this Marsom , strongly to oppose the divinity of Christ ;" on which the preacher exclaimed , ' * and if they are here , I pray God to stop their mouths !**

    iC Amen , " resounded through the whole congregation . On the following Friday , J again attended the meeting in Fetter Lane , when Mr . , Green appeared in the pulpit , and

    opened the meeting by saying ; " You know , my brethren , that this is a meeting according to the direction of the apostle , that the prophets may prophecy one by one , that all may be edified . You know we have carried on this

    meeting so many years ; and some time ago the Antinomians came , and they said so and so , and I answered them , and God stopped their mouths ; and now some

    Untitled Article

    12 Mr . Marsom " s Account of the Rev . Mr . Gretn .

• Citation
  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1809, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1732/page/12/