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 Religious Equality"— 
 National Apostacy. 
 
 A SERMON 
 
 PREACHED IN 
 
 .ST. PETER'S CHURCH, COLCHESTER, 
 on ran oocAsiotB of the 
 
 tf imitation of tht titnmbk tht Qxthhtuon of 
 
 .JUNE 17, 1881, 
 
 Rev. JOHN W. IRVINE, Iff. A., 
 
 Rector of St. Mary-at-the-Walls, Colchester, 
 and Rural Dean. 
 
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 This Sermon is printed at the request of many 
 of the Clergy and Churchwardens who 
 heard it, and who were of opinion that its 
 publication might be serviceable. I have 
 appended to it a recent Pastoral Letter 
 of the Archbishop of Canterbury and a 
 " List of Sects." 
 
 " They conspired all of than together to come and 
 to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it. 
 Nevertheless, we made our prayer unto our God, 
 and set a watch against them day and night? 
 Nehemiah iv., 8, 9. 

 
 SERMON. 
 
 1 Kings xviii. 21 : 
 
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 " If the Lord be God, follow Hnr : 
 but if Baal, thex follow Hm." 
 
 If Jehovah, could have consented to be 
 but one among the many deities whom 
 men have been pleased to enthrone for 
 worship, there would have been no " re- 
 ligious difficulty," from the creation to the 
 present hour. But this He never could do. 
 "I am the Lord, aud there is none beside 
 Me," is His constant testimony. " I am 
 the Lord, that is my name, and my glory 
 will I not give to another, neither my 
 praise to graven images." 1 
 
 So when Christ came He claimed man's 
 homage for his Father, who had also 
 decreed and appointed that " all men 
 should honour the Son, even as they 
 
 1 Dent, zxxii. .".f> ; Isa. xlii. 8,
 
 honour the Father. " 2 If Christ would 
 have announced himself as simply the 
 equal of Abraham or of Moses, following 
 after them in His turn, to supplement what 
 they had done before, the Jews would have 
 had no great quarrel against Him. But 
 He claimed over them a superiority which 
 was divine, saying, " Before Abraham was, 
 I AM ; n while His Apostle declares that 
 "Moses was faithful as a servant in all his 
 house, but Christ as a Son over his awn 
 house." 3 In accordance with this, the faithful 
 Christian must believe the faith of Christ 
 to be the exclusive faith given by God 
 and sealed with His promise of salvation ; 
 the alone new covenant which God hath 
 established, having taken away the old ; 
 and that there is " None other Name" than 
 His " under Heaven given unto men 
 whereby we must be saved.' 
 
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 2 John v. 23. 3 John viii. 53-68 ; Heb. iii. 2-6. 
 
 4 Heb. i. 1; Heb. viii. 13 ; Acts to. 12. The Marquis of 
 Qneensbury, speaking at a meeting held in rapport of Mr. 
 Bradlaugh, claims to be an adherent of " the religion of 
 Humanity," which, says his Lordship, is " the outgrowth of 
 Christianity, and must take its place." The Christian knows 
 that God's leut message or revelation is "by His Son,* 1 and 
 that the religion of the God-man is, in the truest sense, the 
 " religion of Humanity, " revealing God as man'- Father, Christ 
 as his Brother, and Heaven as his home, 
 
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 I think, brethren, that the words of Elijah 
 (which I have recited in the text) are words 
 of very solemn import to this generation, in 
 which a false liberalism is extant, involving 
 a practical apostacy and departure from the 
 faith of Christ. Jezebel, the persecutor of 
 God's people, was right in one respect, viz., 
 that it was not possible for Jehovah and 
 Baal to coalesce and divide dominion, and 
 she was therefore set upon destroying the 
 prophets of Jehovah, in order that she 
 might win the throne of Baal. When the 
 great trial came it was a distinct contest 
 between the devotees of the two religions- 
 " How long halt ye between two opinions ? 
 if the Lord be God, follow him, but if Baal 
 then follow him." And when the trial was 
 ended, its issue was clearly apprehended by 
 all the people, who shouted — " The Lord, 
 he is the God ; the Lord, he is the God." 
 
 Brethren, we have arrived at a great 
 crisis in our national history. Years back 
 we reached, thank God, the firm ground of 
 religious libfrty, by which every man is 
 free to profess the religion to which he
 
 consents ; is loft answerable for his choiee 
 only to God and his own conscience ; no 
 longer liable, as of old, to suffer penalties 
 or incur civil disabilities for his non-accept- 
 ance of the national form of Christianity? 
 or any form of it at all. This is religious 
 liberty, and it is a good thing ; for the 
 spirit of man cannot be coerced, and the 
 Gospel of Grace leans not on an arm of 
 flesh, and cannot really be promoted by the 
 civil sword. 
 
 But now-a-days the cry is for religions 
 equality, which is a very different thing 
 indeed ; and I deem it my duty this 
 morning to lead yon to consider what is 
 the meaning of this modern cry. Beligious 
 equality — what does it mean ? li does not 
 mean that all men should have equal rights 
 of citizenship, irrespective of their religions 
 professions, which is already secured under 
 the term rcliyious liber hj ; but it means that 
 all religions shall be deemed equal — equally 
 true 4 or equally false — in the eyes of the 
 law. It means this, that the Nation as a 
 Nation shall abjure all profession of Christ-
 
 ianity, and place the faith of Christ, as the 
 Church has received the same from the 
 beginning, on precisely equal terms, not 
 only with Unitarianism, which denies- the 
 Godhead of Christ and His atonement, but 
 also with Mormonism, the pretended reve- 
 lation to Joseph Smith, and with the religion 
 of the followers of Joanna Southcote (who 
 claimed in the last century to be the mother 
 of Messiah, and drew away disciples after 
 her) ; 5 and with the religion of Mumbo 
 Jumbo, and the rest of the heathen deities. 
 
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 Brethren, I am very far from saying, 
 nay, from believing, that the majority of 
 those who are trying to overthrow our 
 National Christianity see the end towards 
 which they are working. But, neither 
 did the Jews of old know what they 
 were doing in killing the Lord of Glory ; 
 yet they did it, and are now rueing the 
 consequences. They did it ignorantly (as St. 
 
 5 Southcote Joanna : a fanatic of this name, formerly of 
 Exeter, came to London, where her followers at one time 
 amounted to many thousands, amungst whom were Colonels 
 and Generals in the Army, although the low and ignorant 
 principally were her dupes. She has still her places of worship. 
 See Haydn's Dictionary of Dates ; and Appendix, List of 
 Sects
 
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 Paul assures us), 6 and no less certainty, be- 
 cause ignorantly, are our contemporaries 
 labouring u to crucify Him afresh, and put 
 Him to open shame." 7 
 
 Brethren, those who know me best, can 
 bear witness that in my eleven years 
 ministry in this place, I have not been 
 wont to speak hard words of those who 
 differ from us, and walk not with us ; 
 and God knows that I want neither will 
 nor power to treat them and their 
 opinions with the respect which is due 
 from man to man. But that is a spurious 
 charity which obscures truth, and dares 
 not point out false issues ; and in these 
 days I deem it faithful to point out 
 what really underlies the cry of religious 
 equality, and that it ends in the dethrone- 
 ment of Christ. 
 
 The Devil has sown dissension broad- 
 cast over our land, and has taught men 
 to boast of their divisions, rather than 
 to deplore them, and now the 105 regis- 
 
 1 Cor. ii. 8 ; Acts iii. 14-17. 7 Heb. vi. li.
 
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 tercd sects, most of them professing to 
 bear an allegiance to Christ, are joining 
 with atheists and infidels to fight down 
 all national acknowledgment of Him whom 
 they call Lord. Years back these men 
 declared that they only wanted liberty 
 and exemption from some burdens which 
 galled their consciences ; but now they 
 are strenuously claiming that the National 
 Church should be disowned, all her pro- 
 perty given voluntarily by her children 
 seized and confiscated, and the claim to 
 be a Christian nation publicly disavowed. 
 
 Of tnat property I do not mean to speak 
 many words ; for the care of a Christian 
 man for it must be infinitely less than for 
 the religion which it was given to foster. 
 But I should like to ask our opponents 
 who talk so glibly about " State-endow- 
 ments," to point us to one single Act of 
 Parliament which has created and bestowed 
 endowments upon us. Our tithe was volun- 
 tarily charged upon the land by the owners. 
 Our glebes have been given to us, and 
 though by reason of the time our bene-
 
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 factors' names have for the most part 
 perished, yet some parcels of land can 
 still be identified with the donors ; while 
 our houses have been for the most part 
 paid for by the Clergy themselves. To 
 seize then on property thus voluntarily 
 given for the service of the Church of 
 Christ — so long as the trusts connected 
 with it are being fulfilled — would be as 
 high-handed and unjust as to alienate 
 the property of private men. If the 
 Church's title be not good, no title can 
 be good at all. 
 
 But what I want all men to realise 
 fully is that to disestablish our National 
 Church would be really and truly to de- 
 throne Christ in our land. I want you 
 to discern clearly that religious liberty 
 and toleration are one thing — and an 
 admirable and right thing ; and religious 
 equality — putting Jehovah and Baal on 
 an equal platform — quite another thing, 
 involving a practical national apostacv. 
 I do not mean, of course, that Christ 
 would not still be worshipped — I know
 
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 He would be, and that the fires of trial 
 might purify elect souls and make them 
 shine the brighter. But we may not 
 listen to the Tempter, who would bid 
 us " cast ourselves doivn" looking to God 
 still to uphold us ; for it is written, 
 " Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy 
 God." 8 
 
 We cannot, without the gravest national 
 sin, run back to the state of things 
 which existed in Pagan Borne, where the 
 Emperors were willing to give to Christ 
 a place in their pantheon of deities, if 
 only the Christians would have accepted 
 one place for Him among the " Gods 
 many and Lords many n of the Heathen. 
 But those old Christians knew better 
 than to accept this position ; and with 
 one voice declared with St. Paul, " To 
 us there is but one God the Father, of 
 whom are all things, and we for Him ; and 
 one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all 
 things, and we by Him. 9 
 
 8 Luke iv. 9-12. 
 
 9 1 Cor. viii, 5, 6.
 
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 The historian tells us of Alexander 
 Severus, who became Emperor of "Rome in 
 the Third Century after Christ, that he 
 1 ' had no hereditary attachment to the 
 Eoman form of Paganism. He seems to 
 have affected a kind of universalism — he 
 paid decent respect to the Gods of the 
 Capitol; he held in honour the Egyptian 
 worship, and enlarged the Temples of Isis 
 and l^erapis. In his own palace, with 
 respectful indifference, he enshrined, as it 
 were, as his household deities, the repre- 
 sentatives of the different religious or 
 theophilosophic systems which were preva- 
 lent in the Eoman Empire — Orpheus, Abra- 
 ham, Christ, and Apollonius of Tyana." 10 
 I cannot help interpolating as a modern 
 parallel to this, that I was told at the recent 
 Church Congress at Leicester, that at the 
 " Hall of Science " in that town there were 
 emblazoned on successive panels the names 
 of the world's benefactors, and that amongst 
 others might be seen the names of Voltaire, 
 Christ, and Tom Paine, the author of " The 
 Eights of Man." 
 
 10 Dean Milinan's History of Early Christianity, vol. ii. 177.
 
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 Shall we, brethren, in our turn, do the 
 like to this ? Shall we, after so many 
 centuries of Christian profession, degrade 
 our blessed Lord from His high pedestal of 
 national recognition, and in the name of 
 "keligious equality" put the faith of 
 Christ on an even platform with Judaism, 
 which he came to supersede ; with the 
 religion of Mahomet, the false prophet ; 
 and with Mormonism, the imposture of 
 Joseph Smith, and the fanatic wickedness of 
 Joanna Southcott, both of whom have their 
 Chapels and their worshippers in England 
 at this day ? 
 
 Brethren, it is notorious that a bid is 
 being made at this time to range the tenant 
 farmers and others upon the side of the 
 enemies of the Church, by promising to 
 relieve the land from the tithe rent-charge. 
 I trust that the attempt may not succeed. 
 
 That the burdens upon land are heavy 
 indeed all must agree, for new charges have 
 been continually laid upon it which should 
 justly be charged upon property of every
 
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 sort. But those who are thus scheming 
 are not the men who are really earnest in 
 relieving the burdens of the landed interest 
 by taking any share of them on their own 
 shoulders, and they never will, and never 
 can, release the land from the rent charge, 
 though they may divert it to secular pur- 
 poses. n 
 
 May none who profess and call them- 
 selves Churchmen, not to say Christians, 
 be induced for a " morsel of meat to sell 
 their birthright," 12 — their birthright as 
 Englishmen to have the Word and Sacra- 
 ments of Christ proclaimed and ministered 
 in every village and every hamlet. 
 
 If the Church be robbed of her property 
 how can these ancient blessings be retained 
 amid sparse populations ? They will either 
 die out and be lost, or thev must be main- 
 tained by very large and voluntary contri- 
 butions levied year by year upon those eery 
 
 11 See a most able tract, entitled " What good will it do ?" by 
 the Rev. J. C. Kyle (now Bishop of Liverpool). W. Hunt and 
 Co. Price 3d. 
 
 12 Heb. xii. 16.
 
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 men whose rent-charge will he taken to relieve 
 the general rates. 
 
 May God help us to struggle manfully, 
 while there is yet time, to avert this 
 grievous wrong, this national disaster, 
 this national sin. 
 
 Let every man before — either by his 
 vote or by his voice — furthering the 
 designs of those who would disestablish 
 our national Church, reflect that he would 
 be thus contributing to a national de- 
 thronement of the Lord Jesus Christ, and 
 hear the voice of God saying to him, 
 by the lips of his Prophet, whose utter- 
 ance is recorded for our warning, " If Christ 
 be God, follow Him; but if Baal, then 
 follow him." 
 
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 APPENDIX I. 
 
 Pastoral Letter of the Archbishop of Canterbury. 
 
 Lambeth Palace, S.E., May llf/t, 1881. 
 
 My Reverend Brethren and my Brethren of the Laity, 
 
 Attention has been recently called to certain " Practical 
 Suggestions relative to the Disestablishment and Disendowment of 
 the Church of England," circulated by the Liberation Society 
 a body which has risen to a considerable political importance, 
 and which has committed itself to an almost fanatical 
 hatred of all Established Churches. 
 
 I find in the programme issued by this body, on page 
 1 1 , the following, amongst other, proposals as to the Church 
 of England ; that, as soon as may be, Cathedrals, Abbeys, 
 and other monumental buildings should be placed under 
 national control, and be maintained for such uses as Parlia- 
 ment may from time to time determine ; that all old 
 Churches, meaning thereby Churches built before the year 
 1818, should be vested in a parochial board to be elected 
 by the ratepayers, which boartl should have power to deal 
 with them for the general benefit of the parishioners, power 
 of sale being given. 
 
 Taking these proposals as specimens of the legislation 
 which the advocates of Disestablishment desire, I think we 
 have some reason to be thankful for the plainness of their 
 utterances. It is quite possible that many persons, not fully 
 acquainted with the designs of this body may have in- 
 cautiously acted or spoken in such a manner as to give 
 the impression that they were to some degree in sympathy 
 with its miscalled liberal designs ; but the overwhelming 
 majority of the people of this country looks, I am persuaded. 
 with no favour on the project which the body 1 allude to 
 is formed to promote, and its intentions have only to be 
 clearly stated that they may be repudiated by both the great 
 political parties in the kingdom. Meanwhile the fanatical 
 spirit which has dictated the programme of the Liberation
 
 
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 Society must not be despised because its recognised sup- 
 porters may be comparatively few. 
 
 In page 15 of the "Practical Suggestions," to which I 
 have referred, we read : "It has been already stated that 
 these suggestions are not to be regarded as an exhaustive 
 statement of the various points which would require to be 
 dealt with in connection with the Disestablishment of the 
 English Church. It is necessary to add that there are also 
 subjects, which, though popularly associated with such a 
 change, have no necessary connection with it. The most 
 important of these is the Succession to the Crown, under 
 what is known as the Act of Settlement. The exclusion of 
 members of the Roman Catholic Church from the throne of 
 Great Britain is a political, quite as much as an ecclesiastical 
 question, and must be dealt with on its own merits. It was 
 left untouched when the Irish Establishment was abolished, 
 and may, in like manner, be left untouched when those of 
 England and Scotland are disestablished also." 
 
 Xow, it may be perfectly true that the English people are 
 as little prepared, at the present moment, for giving effect 
 to the destructive theories of this Society in reference to 
 strictly ecclesiastical arrangements as they are to embark on 
 that other important subject, winch is foreshadowed by the 
 above statement, viz., the re-opening of the question of the 
 Succession to the Crown, under what is known as the Act of 
 Settlement. It is now, however, obvious that the earnest- 
 ness with which these views are propagated can no longer be 
 safely ignored by any well-washer of his country. Large 
 sums of money have been subscribed to further the dis- 
 semination of these and such-like principles throughout the 
 land. Not only in great towns, but in small country towns 
 and villages, Lecturers of the Liberation Society gather 
 together meetings, often of very illiterate persons, to whom 
 they recommend such schemes as I have mentioned by 
 exaggerated statements as to the condition and working of 
 tne Established Church. 
 
 It constantly happens that this work is systematically 
 carried on in towns or parishes without even coming to the 
 knowledge of those who would be competent to answer 
 the unscrupulous statements which are sown broadcast 
 among the less educated of our people. The newspapers 
 advocating the views of the Liberation Society, many 
 thousand copies of which are circulated weekly throughout 
 the whole kingdom, are not usually read by persons able or 
 willing to refute by a plain statement of facts the allegations 
 they contain. 
 
 ( 'hurchmen have thought, and wisely, that the best defence
 
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 of their Church was to be found in the quiet, conscientious 
 discharge of duty ; and every Clergyman and layman 
 attached to the Church of England will do well to remember 
 that if he fails in his religious duties he thereby strengthens 
 the hands of those who seek to destroy his Church. Still, 
 it will not, hi my judgment, be wise longer to overlook 
 the attempts which are certainly now being systematically 
 made, with vigour and perseverance, in so many neighbour- 
 hoods, to pervert the judgment and alienate the loyal regard 
 of our people. 
 
 The Church Defence Institution is ready to give 
 whatever assistance is desired in order to meet these 
 attacks. While scrupulously avoiding all agitation in the 
 many places in which we are thankful to believe tfiere is 
 peace, its object is to supply in a cheap, popular, and con- 
 venient form, sound and accurate information as to the 
 history and condition of the National Church, and, when 
 required, to furnish competent Lecturers, who may follow 
 the agents of the Liberation Society in their inroads, and 
 expose the fallacies they would palm off on the ignorant. 
 For such purposes as these, however, the Institution requires 
 greatly increased support. Its annual income is at present 
 quite insufficient for the performance of the work it is called 
 upon to do. A meeting, largely and innuentially attended, 
 has lately been held at Lambeth Palace, at which the 
 necessity for such exertions has been clearly demonstrated ; 
 and I think myself justified in appealing to all Englishmen, 
 to whatever political or theological party they belong, pro- 
 vided they love the Church of England, and desire that its 
 ministrations should continue to be a barrier against ignor- 
 ance, infidelity, superstition, and vicious living, to assist in 
 saving the minds of our people from being led astray, to 
 the great injury of themselves, and the generations that are 
 to succeed them. 
 
 I remain, 
 
 Your faithful Brother and Servant, 
 
 A. C. CANTUAR.
 
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 APPEISTDIX II. 
 
 glcltgtous £*ects — places of 31Tox*sl)ip. 
 
 Places of Meeting for Religious Worship in England and Wales. 
 have been certified to the Registrar-General on behalf of 
 persons described as follows : — 
 
 Advent Christians. 
 
 Advents, The. 
 
 Anglican Church. 
 
 Apostolics. 
 
 Arminian Xew Society. 
 
 Baptists. 
 
 Baptized Believers. 
 
 Believers in Christ. 
 
 Believers in the Divine Visita- 
 tion of Joanna Southcote, Pro- 
 phetess of Exeter. 
 
 Believers meeting in the name of 
 the Lord JesusX^hrist. 
 
 Benevolent Methodists. 
 
 Bible Christians. 
 
 Bible Defence Association. 
 
 Brethren. 
 
 Calvinists and Welsh Calvinists. 
 
 Calvinistic Baptists. 
 
 Catholic Apostolic Church. 
 
 Christadelphians. 
 
 Christians owning no name but 
 the Lord Jesus. 
 
 Christians who object to be other- 
 wise designated. 
 
 Christian Believers. 
 
 Christian Brethren. 
 
 Christian Disciples. 
 
 Christian Eliasites. 
 
 Christian Israelites. 
 
 Christian Mission. 
 
 Christian Teetotalers. 
 
 Christian Temperance Men. 
 
 Christian Unionists. 
 
 Church of Scotland. 
 
 Church of Christ. 
 
 Church of the People. 
 
 Church of progress. 
 
 Congregational Baptists. 
 
 Congregational Temperance Free 
 Church. 
 
 Countess of Huntingdon's Con 
 nection. 
 
 Covenanters. 
 
 Coventry Mission Band. 
 
 Danish Lutherans. 
 
 Dependents. 
 
 Disciples in Christ. 
 
 Disciples of Jesus Christ. 
 
 Eastern Orthodox Greek Church. 
 
 Eclectics. 
 
 Episcopalian Dissenters. 
 
 Evangelical Free Church. 
 
 Evangelical Mission. 
 
 Evangelical l nionist-. 
 
 Followers of the Lord Jesus. 
 
 Christ. 
 Free Catholic Christian Church. 
 Free Christian Association. 
 Free Christians. Free Church. 
 Free Church (Episcopal). 
 Free Church of England. 
 Free Evangelical Christiana 
 Free Grace Gospel Christians. 
 Free Gospel & Christian Brethren 
 Free Gospel Church. 
 Free Gospeller.-. 
 Free Methodists. 
 Free Union Church. 
 General Baptist. 
 General Baptist Xew Connection. 
 German Evangelical Community. 
 German Lutherans. 
 German Roman Catholics. 
 Glassites. Glory Band. 
 
 Greek Catholic. 
 Halifax Psychological Society. 
 Hallelujah Band. 
 'Hope Mission. 
 Humanitarians. 
 Independents. 
 Independent Methodists. 
 Indep. Religious Reformers. 
 Independent Unionists. 
 Inghamites. Israelites. 
 
 Latter Day Saints. Jews,
 
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 Religious Sects — continued. 
 
 Lutherans. 
 
 todist Reform Union. 
 Missionaries. 
 Modern Methodists. 
 Moravians. 
 Mormons. 
 
 Newcastle Sailors' Society. 
 New Church. 
 
 New Connec. General Baptists. 
 New Connection Wesleyans. 
 New Hebrew Congregation. 
 Xew Jerusalem Church. 
 New Methodist. 
 Old Baptists. 
 Open Baptists. 
 Open Brethren. 
 Order of St. Austin, The. 
 Orthodox Eastern Church. 
 Particular Baptists. 
 Peculiar People. 
 Plymouth Brethren. 
 Polish Society. 
 Portsmouth Mission. 
 Presbyterian Church in England. 
 Presbyterian Church of England. 
 Presbyterian Baptists. 
 Primitive Congregation. 
 Primitive Free Church. 
 Primitive Methodists. 
 Progressionists. 
 ProtestantMembersof the Church 
 
 of England. 
 Protestants adhering to Articles 
 
 1 to 18, but rejecting Ritual. 
 Protestant Trinitarians. 
 Protestant Union. 
 Providence. 
 
 Quakers. Ranters. 
 
 Rational Christians. 
 Reformers. 
 
 Reformed Church of England. 
 Reformed Episcopal Church. 
 Reformed Presbyterians or Cove 
 
 nanters. 
 Recreative Religionists. 
 Refuge Methodists. 
 
 Reform Free Church Wesleyan 
 
 Methodists. 
 Reformed Presbyterians. 
 Revivalists. Revival Band. 
 
 •Roman Catholics. 
 (Salem Society. 
 jSalvation Army. 
 jSandemanians. 
 Scotch Baptists. 
 (Second Advent Brethren. 
 Secularists. 
 
 .Separatists (Protestant). 
 Seventh Day Baptists. 
 Society of the New Church. 
 Spiritual Church. 
 Spiritualists. 
 Strict Baptists. 
 Swedenborgians. 
 Temperance Methodists. 
 Testimony Congregational 
 
 Church. 
 Theistic Church. 
 Trinitarians. 
 Union Baptists. 
 Union Churchmen. 
 Union Congregationalists. 
 Union Free Church. 
 Unionists. 
 Unitarians. 
 Unitarian Baptists. 
 Unitarian Christians. 
 United Christian Church. 
 United Free Methodist Church. 
 United Brethren or Moravians. 
 United Presbyterians. 
 Universal Christians. 
 Unsectarian. 
 
 Welsh Calvinistic Methodists. 
 Welsh Free Presbyterians. 
 Welsh Wesleyan Methodists. 
 Wesleyans. 
 
 Wesleyan-Methodist Association. 
 Wesleyan Reformers. 
 Wesleyan Reform Glory Band. 
 Working Man's Evangelistic 
 
 Mission Chapels. 
 Worshippers of God. 
 
 (Whitaker's Almanac, 1881. ; 
 
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