Transcribed from the [1817] John Fairburn edition by DavidPrice,
FIFTH EDITION,
Church burnt in Effigy! Rev. J. L.Garrett’s Vindi-
cation, the Whole of the Evidence, &c.&c.
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Hay &Turner have had the affrontery to call their Scribble theonly Genuine
Edition! whereas, it is not so correct as Fairburn’s.—JohnChurch.
THE
TRIAL
AND
CONVICTION
OF THAT
INFAMOUS HYPOCRITE
JOHN CHURCH,
The SURREY TABERNACLE PREACHER,
BOROUGH-ROAD, ST. GEORGE’S FIELDS,
FOR AN
Abominable Offence;
INCLUDING THE WHOLE OF
THE EVIDENCE;
Tried before LORD ELLENBOROUGH, at the Surrey Assizes,Croydon,
Saturday, August 16, 1817.
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TAKEN IN SHORT HAND.
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TO WHICH IS ADDED,
HIS LIFE,
CONFESSIONS, NOTES OF ONE OF HIS SERMONS,
THE WHOLE OF
THE LOVE-LETTERS, &c. &c.
“Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees,Hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make oneProselyte; and, when he is made, ye make him two-fold morethe child of Hell than yourselves.”
“Ye Serpents! ye generation of Vipers! how can yeescape the damnation of Hell?”
St.Matthew, CHAP. xxiii. v. 15& 33.
LONDON:
Published by JOHN FAIRBURN, 2, Broadway, Ludgate-Hill.
(Price Sixpence.)
p. 4Marchant,Printer, Ingram-court, London.
p. 5SURREYASSIZES, CROYDON,
Saturday, August 16, 1817.
THE KING v.JOHN CHURCH.
The Indictment charged, “Thatthe Defendant, late of the parish of St. Mary, Lambeth, in thecounty of Surrey, on the 26th day of September, in thefifty-seventh year of the reign of George the Third, with forceand arms, at the parish aforesaid, in the county aforesaid, inand upon one Adam Foreman, in the peace of God and our said Lordthe King, then and there being, did make an assault, and him, thesaid Adam Foreman, then and there did beat, wound, and ill treat,so that his life was greatly despaired of, with intent, that mosthorrid and detestable crime, (among Christians not to be named,)with the said Adam Foreman, against the order of nature, then andthere feloniously, wickedly, and devilishly, to commit and do, tothe great displeasure of Almighty God, to the great damage of thesaid Adam Foreman, and against the peace,” &c.