Page 5. THE Nonconformist have no Order at all, especially the generality of Me∣chanical Preachers in that Way; for either they leave their Cal∣lings, and Concerns of their Families, and run up and down Preaching of their own Heads, upon a phansical supposition, that they are able to Preach; or else, at most, have but the consent and connivance of a few weak persons, like themselves, who are altogether incompitent Jud∣ges in such a weighty Case. The Case being truly thus, as we are able to make it good.
The English Spira being a fearful example of an apostate who had been a preacher many years and then apostatized from his religion, miserably hanged himself, October the 13th, 1684 : giving an account of his dispair, and divers conferences had with him, by several ministers and others of his friends : together with his answer, and papers written by his own hand / left attested by Mr. T. Plant, Mr. H. Collings, Mr. B. Dennis, Mr. B. Keach.
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- The English Spira being a fearful example of an apostate who had been a preacher many years and then apostatized from his religion, miserably hanged himself, October the 13th, 1684 : giving an account of his dispair, and divers conferences had with him, by several ministers and others of his friends : together with his answer, and papers written by his own hand / left attested by Mr. T. Plant, Mr. H. Collings, Mr. B. Dennis, Mr. B. Keach.
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- Child, John, 1638?-1684.
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"The English Spira being a fearful example of an apostate who had been a preacher many years and then apostatized from his religion, miserably hanged himself, October the 13th, 1684 : giving an account of his dispair, and divers conferences had with him, by several ministers and others of his friends : together with his answer, and papers written by his own hand / left attested by Mr. T. Plant, Mr. H. Collings, Mr. B. Dennis, Mr. B. Keach." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A38482.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2024.