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fetely < M § v « jre& by Mr . Johii Wes * ley , oti bis laying tike first stone of tlte ftew DtSSemifig fjaefctiiig-botise ,
* ea # tbe Ciry Road 5 " in which | h «* lifotesaM ' Mr . Johfcf' ( as h « is g ^ tmafctty denominated ) and feis dotetriftesr « mde the mark # f frroad ridrcule and sharp
in-* £ fctive . Wesley is called the £ ctf € » mon oflhe Founder ? , a crafty S >) el fox , & dcglg&rogwolf , an unpriricip \ f * d rook , -a silly jaskdawj an n& *> natkafeble Mar * u lifcr of the
Wiost gigantic magnitude * art uiu ^
* nyrinidcms ; ^ nd his -p reacdiers are - * te $ cribed as < w Wesiey * B ragged ? legitm of preaehing barbers , eoblers , tififcej ^ Sj bcaveDgerg ^ draymen and bhimtiey .-stoppers . ' Further than rtiis , Rowland , while he ridictiics IVIr . John ' s no-&s
tion of rclig ^ io ^ consisting in following the example ? of Christ anql loving God ^ nd aur ^ ncighbovir declares ¦ ' ¦• < c If ] th ^ . whole of . reli g ion consists in this , I ? ear , by Mr . 'Jobtof-s conduct , thic he has b « en a stratige ^ to ti-ue religibti all his lifetime : and * While he behaves
as he does to the vyivz 4 f hts ' bourn 9 with whom I have the honour of a personal acquaintance , I cannot be persuaded to alter my opinion . " It is declared to be ia well known fact that Mr . John cast lots for his creed .
Some of Rruviztncl ' s < c Evange - lical" wit is mere ribaldry , and would not bear ' repetition , but we may copy his account pf Mr .
John ' s prea ' cHiiig- —^—* - " What is the yum and substance af John's whole preachment ? - *— - *—
I , I , I , I ; I and my trotI > cr , my
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hrttbtr and A have done all ^ he work oi God that has been done in these realms . All of it carried on by the wonderful operati 6 n ? of us twain ! who then but I
and my brothery my brother and -I ?** ' In the following quotation , the " Evangelical" preacher of Surry Road denies the u Evangelical-. ness" of-the ' * Evangelical" preacher of Moorfiekls-* f Throughout the whole of the Sermon which he read to the people , upon
laying the first atorte of his oew Dissenting meeting housed ( this is the JaEguage of reviling from one good churchman to another , ) " though it contains near 50 pages , tk * blessed name of Jisus is alm *? t totaily ext \ foded / Once indeed . $ he Saviour of sinners is mentioned as an example for our imitation : and hi p . 45 , a distant reference is made to Christ , bit
in a- style so cool and vague , that even a Deist might have expressed himself ^ a wtniJar language . Not a single line , tending to vindicate or to ' illustrate any one fundamental doctrine of the gospe $ f appears throughout thg whole . All the divinity -we find in it , are a few bungling scraps of the religion of nature , vi ^ #
love to God and love to man vtfhlth an ttedthen might have preached as well as Mr .. John ; and probably in . a -much better manner . So that , * by only erasing about half a dozen lines from the whole , I might defy the shrewdest of bis readers to discover , ibheiber -the lying apostle of the J ? Owfdtry be a Jew ya &afutf a Pa ^ wmor a ? Tunk **
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No , XVIII .
HLxcomm unication * No where have men played the fool more than in the church . A history ; of excommunicacions would be an entertaining cointedy , though in another , and perhaps a truer sense , it would be a
woeful tragedy . At a village uviny miles inland from the Norfolk coast , some persons were expelled £ r 6 m * t dis ~ sunting chqrcli ahout forty years ago , for purchasing small quantities of tea at a cheap rate , from an itinerant trader , who was sus-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1809, page 149, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1734/page/29/
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