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    ^ e inSglifc be . praying for what would be ! rather an injury than a blessing . We are rather disposed to take leave of tins' subject ^ 7 congratulating them , rtiat whatever ' be their duration they can never survive their usefulness , ancl that as soon as they become negligent if their work , it will be transferred to abler and more faithful tiands .

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    Alii * . IT . —Tke History and jlntiquities of' Dissenting Churches , £ 9 * 0 .

    [ Continued from p . 346 /) IN the history of " Turner ' s , Hall , Phil pot Lane , " we have an amusing account of Joseph Jact * * , who was brought up a , Quaker , but became an

    Independent minister . He displayed his $ eal on behalf of civij . liberty in the year 1 ( J 88 , by mounting a horse and going % o rqeet the Prince of Orange in the West of England- He was however no blind admirer of William

    HI . : he frequently took occasion to animadvert in public upon such of the measures of the government as he considered blam 6 able . He did this in a Lecture which he preached at Mr . Gouges A $ eeti&g-house , near the Threa Cranes , Thatoes Street ; the report of

    his disloyalty reached the House of Commons ; and , says Mr . WiJson , " Mr . Shalfet * one of Mr . Gouge ' s people , being then a member of parliament , < took- up the business at a Clturcfi * rneeting , complained loudly of Mr . Jacob ' s behaviour , and insisted

    upon his beifcig dismissed from his lecture at that place , which was complied with . "—Mr . Jacob , like many other .. reformers , assumed rio little chiirqh-authority : he obliged his eojittegatioQ to Stand ( Juring the singing , 4 iscar < jMl periwigs , introduced , on the Jfart of toe men , whiskers on the

    u pper lip , pf which he set the example , and pi ? oceeded even to regulate the dress of the worn en . He forbade the members of his church to attend any other worship than his own , and macle it an offence , to be visited with

    ^< tomm < unication , for any of them to J nterrnarry with persons not in ehurchcoodaejtion . These singularities were urged ; * a an extreme : had Mr . J . aqob ^«; a . little , w > r § te m $ > ejrat 3 * his sect feHiih ^ vc ; lasted ( th <* spirit of the sect still lives iri many different corn-J fe < ltiiM * ftfoajt \ ye' < lwJd namfy and his ^ " fl umk&h i h ^ ve bzep * ¦ j yw ^ Pffled ^ ongst the hcxesiarchs . The inscrip-

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    tion on his tomb , in Buniiill Fieldjs , is pleasing from its sunpli < : ity : . In hopes of a part in the First HesiUTco tion . To the Memory Of Mr . JOSEPH JACOB , An Apostolic Preacher ,

    Who died the 2 tfth of 4 mo . 1722 . Aged 55 . We " learn from the subsequent bistoiy of " Turner ' s Hall , " that the practice of singing in public worship was , about this time , introduced

    amongst the Baptists : but it was aia innovation , and in one particular case occasioned a schism , the seceders , who objected to the novelty , claiming to themselves the title of the Old Church , How uniform is human nature I

    Mr . Wilson is to be considered in a higher rank than that of a compiler , and therefore his readers may justly complain that he has sometimes slavishly copied the language of sermons and pam p hlets from which he drew his materials . Who can now endure

    such quamtnesses as the following , which occur pp . 145 and 147 , in the account of two ordinations : " Mr . Wall in opened the work of the day , and was the mouth of the church upon the

    occasion : " * ' they were not in connexion with any board . Mr JBocket , one sof the deaconsf was deputed by the church to be their mouth" ** Mr .

    Dewhurst then closed the -Work of ike day . " Intolerance is always the same-Orthodoxy , creeds , and persecution are , natural allies . " In the year 1719 , the Dissenting Churches in the West of England , were

    thrown into a flame , in consequence of some of their ministers having embraced Aria id sin . This produced a long- controversy , which was carried on with great bitterness on both si dies . At length the matter being refened to the London

    ministers , they met together m a-synod at Salters ' Hall , to consider of advices to be sent to their brethren in the West , with a view of composing' the differences . But it so happened t \ ia . t tney could not agree anionx theiuSelVes ; and , as is generally the case with large bodies , they split into parties arid stiH fiirther widened the breach . It

    being propose ^! in * this Assembly , that , in order to ' support flr ^ ii orthodox brethren In the \ V 6 aV , the ministers prcnenV should make a declaration df their own seaf iiiie * iT 3 -With regard ito < tfre TijUMilty , by subs ^ ibing tU « first ajr tiele of ^ he ? C inurqhJ of EngJ an il , and the answers to th <^ fifth and sbal *

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    T » tteview . ^—fPilsoji * s Dissenting Churches . 4 f 1

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1816, page 411, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2454/page/39/