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    It is reported of a worthy old divine , in the days of divisions and subdivisions , of heads and particulars , of sixteenthlys , furthermores , and scopeand-coherences , that he pTeached on Matthew second and fourth , " they could not come nigh unto him for the press , " and arrived at the exposition of the last term of his text by shewing , negatively , first , that it was not a clothes-press ; secondly , not a wine-press ; thirdly , not a printing-press ; and so orT , for some time , till he got upon the affiimative tack , and proved ,

    positively , that it was a press of the crowd . The subject of this article might be handled in a similar way , were we disposed to make our press prevent the readers coming near it . The Body of which we mean to treat is not the material body , nor the body politic , nor any one of a thousand other bodies , celestial and terrestrial , but " the General Body of the Protestant Dissenting i \ iinisters of the Three Denominations , resident in London and its vicinity ; " and which the initiated are in the habit of designating by

    that brief , technical , familiar , and somewhat affectionate appellation . This Body has of late been exposed to public gaze in rather an unaccustomed manner ; and it is fit that our readers should , as well as others , know something' about it and its spirit . We , therefore , set before them two of its members as samples ; the one a very gratifying , and the other a very disgusting exhibition- The maxim , Ex xmo disce omnes , evidently cannot be applied . Happily the best of the two pamphlets before us , to which that maxim is affixed as a motto , represents the opinions and feelings of a great

    majority . The Body is a confidential body . Its debates and proceedings are , professedly , private ; and only to be made known beyond the walls of the Library in Red-Cross Street ( its accustomed place of assembly by the courtesy of the Trustees ) through the agency of the proper organs , viz . the Chairman and Secretary , the head and hand of tine meeting . Of late this privilege has not been very scrupulously respected . The Congregational

    and Evangelical Magazines , in their earnestness to prove that the Body was not moved to petition on behalf of Catholic Emancipation by the instigation of the ** Socinians / ' have shewn themselves wise above what was pubJi&Jjed of its proceedings . The Letter of the Member to Lord Holland contains the substance of a speech of which there is no other report . And as for Mr . Ivinoey , he " at one high bound high overleaps all bound , " and laughs to scorn all etiquette , and privilege , and power , and defies the Body and all its

    * A Letter to the Right Honourable Lord Holland , occasioned by the Petition from the General Body of the Dissenting Ministers of London , for the Relief of the Roman Catholics . With Strictures on a Petition of an opposite Nature , from some Dissenting Ministers ; and other Remarks occasioned by Recent Circumstances . By a Member of the General Body . Landon , BoJdsworth and Ball . 1829 . Dr . Williams ' s Library , aud the Debate ou the Roman Catholic Claims , January 2 Gth , 1829 ; with the History of the Adjourned Meeting on the 27 th . To which is added , Extracts from " the Manchester Sociuian Controversy ; " Laws relative to

    Dissenting Trusts ; " A True Copy of the Last WiJl and Testament of the late Rev . Daniel Williams , D . D ., first published in 1717 ; and papers relating to the laie Daniel Williams , D . D ., aud the Trust Established by his Will . " The whole intended to shew the Necessity of a » immediate Separation between the Trinitarian and Socinian Members of the General Body of Dissenting Ministers of London ; and as an Appeal to the Evangelical Dissenters throughout the Kingdom , to Support , by their Pecuniary Contributions , a Suit in Chancery , tu Recover the Library , &c , from the Socinians . With an Engraving of Dr . WiJliams ' s Library , Redcross Street . By Joseph ivhney . London , Wightman and Cramp . 1829 .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1829, page 426, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2573/page/58/