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    Christ Jesus . ** The preacher ably demonstrated the absurdity of the commonlyreceived opinion of two natures in Christ , shewing this to be merely the device of orthodox theologians to extricate themselves ^ from the difficulties of their system . The sermon concluded with

    seasonable practical remarks . The services o the day were very acceptable to an attentive and respectable audience . The ministers and a numerous party of friends dined together . Some additional subscribers -were obtained , and the day was spent with much cordiality and pleasure .

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    Religious Manoeuvres at Kingsley , Cheshire . Chester , Sir , Jan . 31 , 1822 . The following account is drawn up by Mr . Astbury , the late minister of the late Unitarian Chapel at Kingsley , near Kelsal , in the County of Chester . Mr .

    Astbury is a pious and sensible man . He has for many years been sincerely attached to the opinions of the Unitarians , which he has endeavoured to promote in his humble sphere , with much personal inconvenience , and with a very trifling emolument . Being unused to composition , he has requested me to revise his account of a disgraceful transaction , which he denominates religious swindling , at Kingsley . I have made only a few verbal alterations .

    W . BAKEWELL . I have gone to Kingsley , as minister , for 25 years , out of which time I have been 16 years stated minister . I was chosen by the trustees , and the united voice of the people . Since then the trustees are dead , and things have remained in a varied state . On the 9 th of Sept . 1821 , a sermon was delivered on th £ death of the Queen ; at which time ,

    a man came into the chapel in disguise , pretending to be a home missionary of liberal sentiments , and delivered papers to the same effect , and requested liberty to preach , which 1 granted . As he said that he was going to stop awhile in the country , he wished to preach at night , which i . refused . He left the country awhile , and rjafcurnetf , and got into the favour of the High Church party , who

    applied to me for him to preach during the winter . ^ Tij ^^ said , as the distance was seyeji miles from my house , and I was in years , his preaching in my chapel would be an act of kinduesa to m $ . I , however , * refused to give up mf pulpit to Jiini ; J > ut , gave him liberty to preach

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    every other Sunday . Some time after fee came to me , und said , that the pe&pte had agreed that I most resign , but that 1 was welcome to the small salary . J told him that I would not comply with this . On the 30 th Dec . at two o ' clock , when Mr . Jones , this self-named home missionary , was preaching , he gave out thae

    there would be service twice during that week , and that there would be a meeting on Saturday to appoint new trustees . I opposed these meetings , and locked up the chapel . On the 5 th of January , 1822 , 1 , iu company with a few friends ' went to the chapel , and found that the door was broken open , and the lock

    stolen away . I locked the door again , but it was again broken open , and we left the chapel open . On the 6 th of this month I preached in it again , but the rabble on the outside made a great disturbance . On the 13 th I preached again , from Acts xxiv . 14—16 . Two attorneys came , and several others , who paid great attention . When the service was over ,

    we agreed to meet on the Friday following at Frodsham , at the attorney ' s office . I attended with some friends . I asked them there to state what they had against me , which 1 had repeatedly done before ; but they only replied , that the congregation was reduced . I asked them , whether it would be creditable to their town to dimiss an old minister without a fault .

    They answered , that it would not . They asked me to . state some conditions on which I would resign , i brought forward an account of 60 / . and upwards , which I had collected from our friends for the rebuilding of the chapel ; and I stated that I had an undoubted right to have

    this money back towards building another chapel at our own place , in the township of Delamere . They did not deny my right , but could not comply by reason of the present distresses ; but they stated , that they would allow me 21 . per annum for my life , and 15 / : towards building

    another chapel , out of the money in my hands , which belongs to the Unitarian chapel at Kingsley . They declared , that if I would not comply they would actually pull down the chapel . Our friends at Kingsley unitedly urged me to agree to the conditions ; and I signed my resignation . There are a few sincere friends at

    Kingsley who were borne down by the above-mentioned oarty . We are inform ed , that at some distant time , they intend to sell the chapel to rajse money for erecting a chapel of ea » e . I preach «* my own house every fortnight , aod-am better attended than 1 was at Kingsley ; and there is a prospect of raising a coagregation . We had it in contemplat *

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    124 Intelligence . —Religious Manoeuvres at King sidy , Cheti&ire

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1822, page 124, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2509/page/60/