The Rod in Pickle; or, An Answer to the Appeal of John Church, the Obelisk Preacher / Containing an Authentic Narrative of the Cause of His Leaving Banbury, in Oxfordshire: Together With the Charges Exhibited Against Him, the Meeting of His Friends in Consequence of Those Charges, and the Result of That Meeting. To Which Are Added, His Letters, Written to the Managers of the Banbury Meeting-House, Begging Them Not to Let the Cause of His Dismissal Be Known in London.

by T. Latham

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THE TRIAL AND CONVICTION OF JOHN CHURCH, the Preacher or the Surrey Tabernacle, Borough Road, at the Surrey Assizes, at Croyden, on Saturday, the 16th of August, 1817, for an Assault with Intent to Commit an UNNATURAL CRIME. Taken in Short Hand, by a Barrister. The profits arising from this Publication will be given to the Prosecutor to assist in defraying the expenses of the Prosecution. London: Printed and Published by Hay and Turner, 11, Newcastle Street, Strand; and may be had of W. Wright, Marsh-gate, Lambeth, and all Booksellers in Town and Country.

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HAY AND TURNER’S GENUINE EDITION OF

THE INFAMOUS LIFE OF JOHN CHURCH, the St. George’s Fields Preacher, from his Infancy up to his Trial and Conviction. With HIS CONFESSION, sent in a letter to the Rev. Mr. L—, two days after his Attack on Adam Foreman, at Vauxhall; with Remarks on it, by the same Gentleman. To which are added, HIS LOVE EPISTLES TO E— B—; with various other Letters, particularly one to Cook, of Vere-street Notoriety!

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FOOTNOTES.

[5] We are informed that Church belongs to that sect called Antinomians, which is that described by the Rev. John Evans in his “Sketch of the Denominations of the Christian World”:—

“The Antinomian derives his name from Anti and Nomos; signifying, against, and a law, his favourite tenet being, that the law is not a rule of life to believers. It is not easy to ascertain what he means by this position, but he seems to carry the doctrine of imputed righteousness of Christ and salvation by faith without works to such lengths as to injure, if not wholly destroy the obligation to moral obedience. Antinomianism may be traced to the period of the reformation, and its promulgator was John Agricola, originally a disciple of Luther. The Papists in their disputes with the Protestants of that day carried the merit of good works to an extravagant length; and this induced some of their opponents to run into the opposite extreme. “This sect (say the Encyclopedia) sprung up in England during the protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, and extended the system of libertinism much farther than Agricola, the disciple of Luther. Some of their teachers expressly maintained, that as the elect cannot fall from grace nor forfeit the divine favour, the wicked actions they commit are not really sinful, nor are they to be considered as instances of their violation of the Divine Law; consequently they have no occasion to confess their sins, or to break them off by repentance. According to them it was one of the essential and distinctive characters of the elect that they cannot do any thing displeasing to God, or prohibited by Law.”

[7] Though Mr. Garrett wrote to me I had never seen him but once in my whole life, but he knew I was at Banbury.