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have said , " that to call in question any of their ( the IV ^ ethodists' ) doctrines , qr to dispute the validity of any part of jtheir discipline , is a sure ground of excommunication . " In support of this jstatemen . t , I adduced the instance of Mr . Coofe , "who , in the year 1 S 06 , was expelled the connexion , for holding
some opinions respecting justification by faith , and the witness of the spirit , which t ; he conference judged to be antixnethodistka ) , but which the expelled preacher nas since attempted to shew to be strictly agreeable to the doctrines . taught by Messrs . Wesley and Fletcher . How far Mr . Cook has succeeded in his
attempt , it is not for me to determinet refer your readers to Mr . Cook ' s publication , entitled * ' Methodism condemned by Methodist . Preachers . " In further confirmation of the truth of my assertion , I directed the attention of
iny reader to the trust-deeds of the ^ lethodist Chapels , which contain a clause , requiring all the preachers to Jteach such doctrines only as are contained in Wesley ' s Sermons and Flctchirs Checks .
Now , Sir , the reviewer of my- book , iiuthe Magazine just mentioned , without ^ condescending to take the least notice of the Tacts which I have adduced in support of my assertion , very politely gives me the lie direct ; and declares :
that " he knows the case to be Just the R everse" of what I have staged it to be y and adds , " though the conference Would expel any preacher who should adopt the Arian 01 Secinian heresy , yet in matters that do not affect the
essentials of reJUgjion , nor disturb the peace © f the body , it tfrvfr interferes " Notwithstanding the positive assertion t > F this reviewer , the facts I have just alluded to , respecting Mr . Cook and the ^ hapel . tru ^ t-defids , are decisive evidence in proof of my statement ; but it was prudent in this reviewer to keep those facts from the notice of his
readers . Nor are those the only proofs I have it in my power to bring forward , whenever it shall he , judged necessary to enter farther into the lousiness . The phrases " essentials of religion , an 4
« f . disturb the peace o £ th ; C body /* are $ 00 loose to deserve notice . ; " My reVifwer . ne ^ t tniigs forward his ther «* instance of my mi * -repr , esen- < Ration . " tfr > e case i » a ^ follows : ' Mr . Jonathan Crowthar , a travelling preacher i& the Wcsleyan connexion , in 1 » ..-. » . .. - .
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a letter to the late Mr . Kilham , hti 1 given such an account -of their ^ yearly > conferences , as the \ jieads * of the con - nexion do not relish , but which there is strong reason to believe is but too just . My extract from fchat letter I concluded 1
by remarking , *« that , as this gentlemaq has never yet becm called to account for this representation , which was published a few years ago , I should suppose it is a tolerably just picture / ' in reply to this remark of mine , our methodistiral
reviewer exclaims— " not true ; he tvas called to account for it at t ^ e Bristol con * ference , in 1798 , asd so expressed' his contrition as i ^ fcliy to sati s fy his bre-r threq . '* In answer to this charge of false
statement , I have only to remark , what ought never £ 0 be lost sight of , that the Bristol Conference of J 79 & , was a private assembl at tvhich no , one could be admitted besides this same repenting Jorjathan and his satisfied brethren . Mow
then . should the public ^ know any thipg of the transactions of such meeting , but what the privileged few choose to communicate ? my statement , therefore , may , ot may aot be true . It was , to the best of my knowledge , exactly a » I staged it ' , nor , indeed , does it much matter whether Mr * C was called to account" or
not : whether he , for reasons best known to himself , thought it prudent to unsay what he had said , a'ad , thus to give the lie to a \\ his former professions , ( for the subject concerned facts , not matters of
opinion , ) or boldly to maintain what he had deliberately committed to writing * is of small moment to the general tr&ith pf my . history . This , however , I will venture to assert , ttot if all tke authors of * those letters , extract $ from ^ which
are subjoined to ** The l- » ife of Kilham , repented , like this < 3 Vlr . C . then the Bristol Conference of X ? o . $ might truly be saicjl . i : o be " a cpnference of tears /' ~ But 1 will not enter farther into this
subject at present ; an opportunity may soon occur of unfolding some subjects , which , out of delicacy to the lady to whom my letters were addressed , I purposely suppressed . I have now , Sir , I tru ^ t , "fully answ ered both the charges of ** mis-re ] presentation" . wjxich my mcthocjistical r ^
viewer Has brought fornpaxjcl ag ^ in s > t ax » c-J ^ t the impartial j udge bqtwixt u ^ \ Wirn respect to the railing , the Io \ f sQurrility , and the jdan . dcr&usr avid mai ^ t
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82 - Mr-f Nightingale's Defence ^ Jyc .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1808, page 82, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2389/page/26/
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