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Uitle creatures have started up , they are Arians , and they threaten to come and oppose the divinity of Christ / ' When he had finished a long speech of this sort , and en opportunity offered , I addressed the congregation on the letter which had been read to them that
day week , of which I thought , a regard for troth , my duty to them , to my friends and myself demanded that I should take some notice * I recited the contents of
the letter , animadverted upon it ^ and upon the writer , who I said I hoped was present ; upon which he arose and said , " I am here . " I replied , " sit down then till I have done / ' I had been informed
that , since the preceding Friday evening , the writer had said , that " he did not design his letter to be read in public , and that the reading of it shocked him / ' On which I observed , that I was glad he was not lost to all shame , but that it was not uncommon for
persons to circulate in the dark things unfavourable to the characters of others , who would feel shocked at their conduct being openly exposed . I then affirmed the whole of the letter to be
false , excepting that part which states , that be was at our meeting , and that some of us said , we had been to Mr . Green . I concluded with referring them to the direction of Moses in a like
case , Deut . xix . 16—19 . only adding , that whatever the design of the writer was with respect to jne , I did not wish a retaliation , knowing that the servant of the
Lord must not strive , but be gentle unto all men , not rendering evil for evil , but contrariwise , blessing . I was frequently interrupted Jby Mn Grctm , saying ,
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" Well , you say the letter is false , he says it is true . " A woman provoked by the over-bearing con ^ duct of Mr . Green , came forward and said , 44 I was at that meeting and know the whole of that letter to be false udo 11 le raise
: " " mac uer xo De ; upoa which Mr . Green stamped with , his foot &nd exclaimed , ** I suffer not a woman to speak in the church , I suffer not a woman to speak in the church , " After
some further altercation , a gentleman in the congregation got up and said ; " Mr . Green , 1 ant grieved at your conduct ; you attempt to pervert judgment , f beg that I may be permitted to ask the writer of that ietter
one question /* He then address ** , ed him in the following words-j ' * I ask you in the fear of God and before this congregation , did Marsom himself , or any of the persons at that meeting , say that they would come here . to op ^ pose the divinity of Christ ? " Hfe replied , " They did not to be sure use those expressions , but Marjsom ' s sermon opposed the divinity of Jesus Christ / ' I then addressed the congregation and
tol ^ l them , that I was sorry they should be troubled with an investsgation , which could be of np real advantage to them , but that the writer of that letter having come forward and told them his
letter was not true , his testimony was better than that of a thousand witnesses ; he had however alledged , that my sermon opposed the divinity of Christ ; that sermon I observed , had no relation to that subject , but if it had , it would not prove the letter to be true .
Mr ; Green answered , ** If we come to speak of the doctrine , we shall soon find the letter to be
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Mr . Mar $ am * s Account of the Rev . Afr . Green * 13
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1809, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1732/page/13/
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