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of authority ; and , on examining the letters of Paul to Timothy and Titus , concerning the corrduct cf a Bishop towards a Presbyter , we cannot discover on what part gF the Scriptures the proceedings against Mr . Si one are founded .
6 t There is a place in London called Doctor ' s Commons ; a place behind St . Paul ' s , to the south of that church , inhabited by gentlemen called Doctors and Proctors . Here is a court of a good size well suited for the hearing of
causes , but for some reason or other this court is used for mere forms , and the greater part of the business is transacted in an adjoining parlour , where are seldom , other per ons present besides those whom sad necessity or the business of the court cons rains- to be there .
Mr . S tone has been cited , it seems , to appear in this court , for maintaining- doctrines contrary to the Church of England , and against an old law made in the reign of Queen Elizabeth . To this citation Mr . Stosje appeared by his proctor , and protested against a cause of this kind being discussed by Doctors and Proctors , before a Doctor
who is a Knight ; and the education of all of them seemed very unlikely to lead them to a knowledge © f the Scriptures , which the Church of England professes to make the ground of its faith . The protest however was in vain , for the judge has declared himself to be a competent judge of the controversy , and the accuser is to bring in his charges .
"It is to be recollected that Mr . Stone preached a Sermon by desire of the Arch-Deacon , before a body of clergy . The reader might expect then to hear that some of this body were the accu-ers . No such thing ! The cJergy have not accused him ; nor has the bishop called him to account . It is a private individual , a Mr . Bishop * Not a bishop ;
but a Mr . Bishop ; and , what is more singular , this Mr . Bishop is a Proctor , and this Mr . Bishop is not only a Proctor , but the King ' s Proctor ; and what is very extraordinary , this Mr * Bishop _ did not bring his accusation forivcrd , till pt t after the late Ministry ' ivere dismissed , and the cry of " No Popery ' ' raised . Now , if this Mr . Bi hop has really at heart the good of religion ; if he . bus really studied the Scriptures ; if
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he is really competent to discuss th subject ; and if he dreads the promuW " Lion of such doctrines as those taugh ^ by Mr . Stone ; we lament only that he did not enrer first , as the church
prescribes , into an amicable discussion on the points , on which they are at variance but has taken a course which assuredly excite > suspicion that punishment , not the conversion of an aged brother is the object of his pursuit . It is a singular th ' iTig al . o , that a proctor should enter
upon £ uca a cause . Does he act for himself or for others ? He has already employed three doctors . The question is of great importance to the clergy . We shall continue our remarks upon this curious cause as it goes on , as well an on a similar subject among the
Dissenters ; among whom one of their clergy has started a doctrine similar to that of Mr . Stone , and some of his hearers it ere for censuring instead of exar , i / ting- his opinions / / So biassed are most people in all ages in favour of opinions , -with which the chance of birth
has filled their heads ! so true is the remark of Gibbon , that it was an even chance at onetime , whether the cross or the crescent should be fixed on the walls of Oxford / ' June , 1807 . . * ' We promised in our last to notice the proceedings in another place relative to the church , and to lay before our readers the state cf the prosecution
against Mr . Stone an aged Presbyter of the church of England , with a large family . The prosecutor , it may be recollected , is a Mr . Bishop , a proctor in the place called Doctors' Commons , being the same in civil law to a Doctor that an Attorney is to a Counsellor . Tins Mr . Bishop is a rare theologian ; a sound Salamanca divine : for , he is
bringing a poor parson into trouble , from a knowledge of the subjects on which the parson has preached , or , he is bringing him into trouble without knowledge of the subjects on which the preachment ha * been . Be this as it may , this Mr . Bishop having read the sermon which Mr .
Stoke preached before the Arch-Deacon and his clergy , and which the Arch-Deacon and his clergy neither refuted nor re * primanded ; this Mr . Bishop lias drawn up , twenty articles against Mu . Stone , contained in five sheets of foolscap paper , written on both Jiidtii . Our reads **
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450 Intelligence . — Prosecution of Mr . Stone .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1807, page 450, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2383/page/54/
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