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da # ^ lofcdtUea ilr e ^ ytfeftians ^ i is interest * ittg '*>' ¦ Dit ^ fiateal , X ) fibttfiie ^ the / place in it which we . 'Should hare assigned to him .
*< Augwl / tk . This beui £ the last Sunday that ; the Presbyterians are to preach , unless they read the new Common Prayer and renounce the covenant ; I had a mind to hear Dr .
Bates ' s ferewell sermon , and walked to St . Dunstan ' s , where , it not beingseven o ' clock yet , the doors were not open ; and so I walked an hour in the Temple Garden . At eight o ' clock I went , and crowded in at a back door
among others , the church being half lull almost before any doors were open publicly , and so got into the gallery ^ beside the pulpit , and heard verv vv £ ll . His text was , ' Now the
God of Peace —•; ' the last Hebrews aud the 20 th verse : he making a very good sermon , and very little reflections in it to any thing of the times . : x To Madam Turner ' s , and dined with her . She had heard
Parson Herring take his leave ; though he , by reading so much of the Common Prayer as he did , hath cast himself out of the good opinion of both sides . After dinner to St . Dunstan ' s again ; and the Church quite crowded before I come , which was just at one
o ' clock 5 but I got into the gallery again , but stood in a crowd . He * pursued his text again very well , and only at the conclusion told us after this manner : * I do believe that many of you do expect that I should say something to you in reference to the
time , this being" the last time that possibly I may appear here . You know it is not my manner to speak any thing in the pulpit that is extraneous to my text and business ^ yet this I shall say that it is not my
opinion , fashion , or humour , that keeps me from complying with what is required of us , but something after much prayer , discourse and study yet remains unsatisfied , and commands me herein . Wherefore if it is my unhappinesse not to receive such an
illumiflacion as should direct me to do otherwise , I know no reason why men should not pardon me in this world , as I am confident that God will pardon me for it in the next . ' And so he concluded . Parson Herring read a * Dr . Bates .
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Psalm an < l chapters l > e £ ore secnion >; and one was the chapter in fcte Acia , where the story of Ajiaj ^ as ami . SappMra is . AkkI after he had dtm £ , says he , * This is just thg case of Engl&&d at presents God he bids \ ts to preafch , and men bid us not to preach ;
and if we do , we are to be imprisoned and further punished . AH that I can say to it is , that I beg your prayers , and the prayers of allgood Christians , for us . ' This was all the exposition he made of the chapter in these vexy words , and no more . I was much
pleased with JBates ' s manner of bringing in the Lord ' s Prayer after his ofcvne ; thus , "In whose comprehensive words we sum up ail our imperfect desires ; saying , ' Our Father , ' &c . I hear most of the Presbyters
took their leaves to day , and that the city is much dissatisfied with it » I pray God keep peace among n * ea in their rooms , or else all will fly apieces ; for bad ones will not go down with the city . " I . 159 .
Sept . 3 , Pepys was told that it was fully resolved in Council that an indulgence should be granted the Presbyters , but this resolve was turned by a speech of the Bishop of London ' s ( Sheldon ' s ) . Monk opposed him , but < c only in appearance . " I . 162 .
At the end of September , he > . says the Presbyterian Clergy were gone out very peaceably , and " the people not so much concerned therein as was expected . " Yet by the middle of next month , I . 171 , he acknowledges " every body ' s spirit very full of trouble . "
Oct . 5 th he went to Church , and remarks , " this day the parson has got one to read with a surplice on ; I suppose himself will take it up hereafter , for a cunning fellow he is as any of his coate . " I * 168 * He records , Oct . 29 , the opinion of
Sir G . Carteret that the people that were " clapped up" whose examination he had attended , had not been
such great plotters as charged , " so poor and silly and low . " I . 174 . On the 31 st ** all the prisons in towne were full of ordinary people ,
taken from their meeting-places last Sunday . " Nov . 30 , ( I . 183 , ) he allows "public matters in an ill condition" —* ' that which troubles most is the Clergy , ichich will never content the city ,
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Memoirs ofi Samuel Pepgs , Esq . # 71
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1825, page 671, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2542/page/31/
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