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true , " and immediately added , 4 C Sir , did not you come here this day fortnight to oppose " me ? " I said ,. 46 No sir , I did not . " He
replied , " Sir , you have lied before God and the congregation . " I replied , "Sir , that is a bold assertion , you ought to have had some gooc } foundation for it before you 7
made it . ' Upon which a man got up behind me and said , € C Sir , I believe I dan speak to that ; as I was going out this day fortnight , ^ followed a lit t le man and woman , mid the man said he came lo ask
Mr . Green soiiw questions but did not find liberty . " I turned round and said , " Sir , look at me . Am I the man you followed ? " He
answered , No , you are not the man . " I replied , ' * It is not then yet proved that I have lied before God and the congregation /" MrGreen then asked me
. . * ' Do you believe Mr . Elliot ' s book *? " I replied , Ci I am not come here to defend Mr . Elliot ' s or any man ' s book ; what I
believe 1 am ready to state and defend . " I then entered upon the subject of the divine unity , and attempted to prove that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ was the
only God , and the sole object of religious worship . I had not proceeded far , before there was a cry through the whole congregation , " Blasphemy , blasphemy ! pull him down . " The confusion was very great . Mr . Green to
put a stop to it , gave out two verses of an hymn to be sung . The tumult ceasing , I addressed the congregation on the impropriety and absurdity of their conduct , how contrary such a spirit was to the spirit of the gospel ,
• Mr . Elliot had just then published his large work agaiast the trinity , entitled u Revelation the only test of sound doctrine- "
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and how unlikely to serve the inte r * est of truth , and-added , " What you have called blasphemy I am ready to repeat and aru able to prove . " I then entered more fully into the
subject , and the controversy com * menced ,, which lasted that evening ( as it did the succeeding Friday evenings , ) from six o ' clock till ten . On the next evening I went rather late , and found the crowd so great , that I could not get near the place : Mr . Green
was recapitulating what had passed the preceding evening , and calling upon me , if there , to answer various questions . When he had finished speaking , some persons called out that I was there , but could not get in * By means of the exertions however
of those about me , I at length reached the middle of the place , and the controversy proceeded as before . Oil the third evening ,. Mr * Green finding he could not doany thing by argument , resorted to other means . In order to
intimidate me , he had a constable and one of the king ' s messengers in the pulpit with him . One of these ^ addressed some threatening expressions to me , of which I took no notice . The discussion proceeded that night aad the following Friday as usual .
On the fifth night , Mr . Green opened the business in a ver ^ different tone from that he h * j . d assumed before . He stated the various arguments I had used with
more fairness and candour , ana observed that he felt my reasoning on Rom . ix . 5 . the preceding evening to be unanswerable : that he had from that time teen up
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14 Ji / % 31 arso ? n ' s Account of the tier . Mr . Green *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1809, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1732/page/14/
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