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reeled to restore heretics who abjure , and appoint penances > but to proceed against the pertinacious and obstinate , desperately immersed in their errors , erroribvs suis desperate immersum .
Perhaps here is a pleasaniry upon the mode of the Baptists . Persecution relaxing her brow for a moment , to grin horribly a ghastly smile . Such , however , are to be cast out of the communion of the faithful , and delivered over to the secular
arm * There is added a fun power of calling before them all suspected - persons , of committing them to prison ,, and putting them in irons , carceri et vinculisy si opus fuerit , mancipandi ^
Such was the formidable engine of oppression of which the English Protestant Reformers now accepted the use , or rather which they had prepared for their own purpose , as it would be unfair to fix upon the memory of the royal child the deep disgrace of this
sanguinary . 1 designed , when I began this letter , to trace the steps of English Protestant Persecution to the conclusion of the reign of Edward . But I have already sufficiently intruded on your pages , and must reserve an account of the sufferers under this commission for the sub * ject of another letter . R . G . S *
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JOissenting Congregation ^ Call Lane , Leeds . Sir , March 7 , 1 & 12 . Perceiving that you seem in . clined to insert accounts of
Dissenting congregations and their successive ministers , I take the 1 L berty of sending you a few particulars relating to a Dissenting con-
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gregation in Leeds , which has been repeatedly mentioned in the Repository . The first founder of the society which afterwards assembled in Call Lane chape ) , Leeds , was the Rev . Christopher Nesse , ( in regard to whom , see the Nonconformist ' s
Memorial , vol . ii . 5 o 7- ) ejected from his preferment in Leeds , A . D . l 602 . After suffering much persecution , he was at last excommunicated three times ; and ,
upon the fourth , a writ was issued out 6 t de excoramunicato capiendo ; " to avoid which , he removed to London in 1675 . The follow *
ing anecdote will shew that he was a man very much superior to vulgar prejudices ( but you will either insert or suppress it at plea * sure ) . Going one Christmas with
one of his hearers to pay some visits in the congregation , a good woman brought out the great Yorkshire goose-pie for the entertainment of her visitors . Mr .
Nesse ' s friend objected to this dish , as savouring of superstition . " Well then , brother ( said Mr . Nesse ) , if these be walls of superstition , let us pull them down /* I need not add that he immediately set about
the business of demolition . After him was Mr . Thomas Whitaker , who is mentioned in the Monthly Repository , ( vol . vi . pp . 9 , 260 . ) as having been a pupil of the Rev . Richard Frankland . He too
suffered much for conscience sake , and was imprisoned for some time in York castle . He died , minis *
ter at Call Lane , Nov . 19 , 1710 , aged 66 . ( See M , Rep . ) # He was succeeded by the Rev . William Moult ( whose son Samuel was minister at Rot her ham , and died there , Sep . 16 , 1766 , aged 58 ) . Mr . Moult died in 1787 . pr 172 * .
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S 34 Dissenting Congregation , Call Lane , Leeds <
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1812, page 224, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1747/page/16/
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