' T H E PLYMOUTH BRETHREN THEIR HISTORY AND HERESIES . BY JAM ES GR AN T, AU H or u O U R HEAVEN LY HO M E ! “ RU HS FO R THE DAY or T OR , T T LIFE AN D THE HO U R or DEA H ! “ THE HIS Y or T , TOR ” THE N EW SPAPE P ESS 6m and EDI or R R , , TOR D THE CHRISTIAN STAN DAR . L O N D O N IN O H 24 PA ER N O S ER R O W . WILLIAM M AC T S , , T T P R E F A C E . THE bulk of this publication appeared some time a o in a w ork of mine in Tw o V olumes entitled g , , , The R eligious Tendencies of the Times . It attracted great and general attention when it a eared but the ric e— welve Shillin s—of the pp , p T g volumes revented man who w ere desirous of , p y reading the w ork from obtaini ng a perusal of its H n e a reat um er of a lications pages . e c g n b pp “ have been made to me to reprint the History an d r n With the Heresies of the Plymouth Breth e . urgent requests thus made I have at length c om lied makin man im ortant additions to the p , g y p matter of whi ch the publication originally con ‘ sisted. Having a profoun d persuasion that Ply mouth Brethrenism as tau ht and ractised b , g p y the Dar section of that o d is essentiall at by b y, y variance with the spirit and doctrines of the reli ion of Christ and that it is w orkin reat g , g g mi hi f wherever it has ot a footin I ho e sc e g g, p that by republishing what appeared in my eli ious enden ies of the Times with the R g T c , iv R EFACE P . n umerous additions I have made to it in this form and ein rou ht out at the rice of , b g b g p O ne Shillin reat ood to the cause of the tru h g, g g t as it is in Jesu will there e done I ha e s by b . v remark ed elsewhere but it ma be w ell to state , y the fact here that w herever no mention is made , by me of the party of the Plymouth Brethren of whom I am at the time s eakin m obiserva p g, y i l h D r t ons re ate to t at section of which M r. a by is the recogniz ed leader. JAM ES GR AN T . 35 Cornw all R oad W , , . tober 1 874 1 5th O c , . PLYM O U TH BR ETH R EN . CHAPTER FIR ST . THEIR O R IGIN AN D EAR LY HISTO R Y . THE zPlymouth Brethren are a sect of w hom we hear a d rea ea but of w m the u kn w but v r t . g t l , ho p blic o e y li tle Even er re us en m nat n s w ho m t be su oth ligio d o i io , igh p se to be w e ac u a nte w t e r r n t e r po d ll q i d i h th i o igi , h i m n s r t e r nu m ers t e r r na v ew s and e r i i t y, h i b , h i doct i l i , th i f rm O f ur vern men n ssess ver m e infor o ch ch go t, o ly po y li it d mation in regard to these and the other points on which t e ffer fr h y di om other religious bodi es . The m ut re ren so far as res e s se era of e r Ply o h B th , p ct v l th i tr n a v ew s ex s e for s me ears ef re e w ere doc i l i , i t d o y b o th y c a e i s n at name . e r r n n se se ll d by th Th i o igi , thi , took a e in relan and the me ma be u e s mew ere pl c I d, ti y q ot d o h etw een th d 1 8 4 The n erva e w een b e years 1 828 an 3 . i t l b t the first and last of these six years w as one o f great c o m m t n in the re us w r d a t u the mm t n o io ligio o l , l ho gh co o io w a bu I s t little observed beyon d the evangelical pale . t chi efly arose from the pulpit ministration s and publishe d w r s f E w ar rv n an d his ex u s n fr m o the R ev . o k d d I i g , p l io o ’ the S ur h R e ent s S u are f we his cotch Ch c , g q , ollo d by excommunication from the Church o f Scotlan d by the res ter o f n nan to w C ur and res er he P by y A , hich h ch P byt y e n H s x u n and ex mmun a n w ere b lo ged . i e p lsio co ic tio cause d by his hav ing introdu ced no t only a new style o f rea n bu t mu m r an new r na ma er. p chi g , ch i po t t doct i l tt ’ I am s ure I w ill receive the reader s permission if I pause here j ust for a single moment to say that it w as my M r n u n w . rv privilege to be person ally acq ai ted ith I i g, because it furni shes me w ith the opportunity o f remarking that I never met w i th a man w ith w hose thorough sincerity in all hi w m r m res se or o f w se s vi ew s I as o e deeply i p d, ho personal piety I had a more exalted opinion ; w hile with A 2 THE HISTOR Y AND HER ESIES O F re ar to his a earan e and manner in the ul t ave g d pp c p pi , I h never seen so remarkable a mingling o f maj esty w ith ‘ mo s as in him. Even at t s stan e o f time an de ty hi di c , I c _ a ne ear the nes o f his ma n fi en v e and see im gi I h to g i c t oic , is e oun enan e ra an w t w s m era h nobl c t c , di t i h hat ee ed lit lly fr m e ven en e w an x r f n e a light o h a , bl d d ith e p ession o be ol n e w no one who n e w ness u ver v e c , hich o c it ed it co ld e for et. Hhad em race M l n rianism w a a me e b d i l , hich t th t ti had f un its w a n but ver few ul ts e er i n the o d y i to y p pi , ith m o of Bu the s m f in ul Establish ent or ut it. t i ple fact o c a n the d r ne o f the ers n a re n Of C r t o n c ti g oct i p o l ig . h is f r a usan ears u not of tse f av ause earth o tho d y , wo ld i l h e c d ’ the excitement produced by M r . Irving s pulpit mi nistra u w r s The sens n w h r ate tions and p blished o k . atio hich e c e d ar se e fr m his w e n in a m s ever serm n o chi fly o d lli g , l o t y o , w all the ntense earnes n ess an d all the trans n en t ith i t , ce d uen e w hara ter e his rea n on his ew eloq c hich c c iz d p chi g, n ly a e e ef t a r s m me to our w an dopt d b li , h t Ch i t ight co orld y da and at an ur bu t w u mos er a nl me in y , y ho , o ld t c t i y co at enera n ere t a v s e n d m on eart ver th g tio , to c i ibl ki g o h , o w He H mse f w as to re n ers n hich i l ig p o ally .