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PRE ^^ TIIIN ^ IXG CHRISTIANS *
Uq&er the above appellation , a small religious Cptety has of late attracted considerable' notice in the metropolis , I&y this portentous name , ' the memb&rs avow , that they mean only to distingublv themselves from the unthinking multitude * The society has existed nine or
ten years . It assembled till of late , but . with little success , in Old Change , Cheapside . Not long ; since it removed its meetings to No . 5 , Cateaton Street , and put forth hand-bills , notifying th © subjects of discussion , among which were the Trinity , Miraculous Conception , &c . —These bills alarmed , it is said .
the Bishop of London , Dr , Porteus , " who engaged the Lord Mayor of London , ( Mr . Ansiey , ) to interfere . " i % c accordingly sent for the heads of the Society to the Mansion-house , and an interview took place , on the 6 th ot
February . He demanded of them an explanation of their religious opinions ; they l * as Englishmen and Dissenters , disclaimed any right on the parr , of his . Lordship , to enter into an examination of the kind . " He then told them that ,
' HE WOULD NOT 41 LPW 4 LHY RELIGIOUS MEETINGS THAT HfcLD OPINIONS CONTRARY TO THE ESTABLISI * - E # CHURCH OR IN UNCONSEGRATKD places . "—A declaration of which his Lordship-must now be sufficiently ashamed , A notable resolution this for the
first magistrate of a city , of which a . ver , y large proportion of the most considerable citizens are Dissenters , —that magistrate , top , brought up among the Dissenter * , and indebted , » f -we be not mis-informedj for the first rudiments of Jtis education to * the author of-the " Dis-
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. wished * if , ia pleading for & salvo £ oi his conscience , he / betrayed an unseeml y reluctance * to testify his sincerity by > a cost !} ' sacrifire , let not our readers judge him harshly . Her has not recanted ; he is thrown upon th ^ world : in old age for support 5 and we cannot but think , that
erven the Bishop of London , ; and Sip W . Scott , would gladly relieve theic feelings by entering their names upon a Ubtof subscribers for an annuity * to Mr . Stoue , equal in value to his forfeited benefice ; Where will this inquisition for heresy * end ? Bishops are scarcely secure upon their thrones . ,
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senter ' s Catechism , " \ nd t&Q u Nonconformist ' s Memorial . " To . the JLord Mayor ' s threat , the members opposed firmness of argument and earnestness of-remonstrance . They presented him -with their printed laws , a book
containing many of their sentiments ,, and , Mr . El wall ' s trial for denying the Trinity . c < His Loi-dship seemed convinced that he wa . s out of his province , * ' and partly admitted ,, t&at be was . put uppn , this business by a superior , meaning we apprehend Bishop Porteiis ,. He only desired , at the conclusion of the
conference , that these for * nidabfe , speakers would register their place of meeting ia the Bishop ' s court , and tfcen they would be out of his jurisdiction . In obedience to this desire , they shut up- their place * till they could get it registered ^ t ; heydiscovered that it would be necessary to ,
register the speakers also . For this latter purpose , they applied in a body at the quarter sessions , Guildhall , wfrere they expected , the Lord Mayor to preside . His Lordship was not present : but Alderman Combe , who was on the bench ,
ordered the clerk of tfie court , Mr . Shelton , " to execute the necessary business . ' * He , alleging that it would be more regular , desired them , to call upon him at his office * They did so * and there met Mr . Sylvester , the
recorder of London * who began to que& * tion them about their religious opinions . They very properly demurred to his authority , upon which he declared that he would not register them , unless they appeared in open court afi the OM $ aiky » adding , ( if the report be correct , ) with &n insolence that belongs * we are told *
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5 S 4 Int * uigtnce *~ t ~ lrree-tkinlci ) ig ( SlixUfiuns .
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and oensurers . He will rejoice with us-, whether he personally be , regardod Us worthy of assistance or Tmt \ ih by his me 4 ns , even his privations * the gsreat cause oi iree inquiry and rational Chris ^ tianity be' promoted * JMfay 18 L
, P . S » Since the above waj written , Mr . Stone has suffered the sentence of privatiQti . On Friday the % 6 th instant , he was called upon by the court to re- » voke his errors . If he displayed ( according * to the newspaper reports , ) a stronger desire of retaining his bei * efica than some of his friends might have
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1808, page 284, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2392/page/56/
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