FETTER-LANE.—Independent. Descendants of the Welch, who are said to have settled in America about the eleventh century, under Prince Madoc. 1797.-12. A Charge at the Ordination of the Rev. Jonathan Evans, at Foles-hill, 1797.-13. Village Sermons. The first volume was published in 1797, and contained twelve short and plain discourses on the principal doctrines of the gospel, adapted to the use of families, Sunday-schools, and companies assembled for religious instruction in country villages. The acceptance which they met with encouraged the author to publish a second, a third, a fourth, and at length a fifth volume. A sixth volume on the Divine Perfections, we understand, is now preparing for the press. These sermons have been reprinted in America. It has been computed that sixty or seventy thousand volumes have been circulated since this work made its first appearance.— 14. The Life of the Rev. John Machin. A new edition. 1799.-15. The True Messiah: a Sermon at Coventry. 1798.-16. Two Appeals to the candid Inhabitants of Litchfield. 1802.-17. Tracts for Prisoners. 1802.-18. The Assembly's Catechism dissected: from Dr. Wallis, &c. Fors the use of children. 1802.-19. The Pilgrim's Progress versified for children. 1803.-20. Bunyan's Holy War with Notes. 1803.-21. A Charge at the Ordination of the Rev. John Jerard, Mr. Burder's successor at Coventry. 1804.-22. Lawful Amusements : a Sermon at Fetterlane. 1805. This passed through two editions.-23. The History of the Holy Bible: improved from the text of the Rev. Lawrence Howel, M. A. 3 vols. 8vo. and 12mo. 1805.-24. A Sermon on the Death of the Rev. James Moody, of Warwick. 1807.-25. Essays to do Good. Written by Dr. Cotton Mather, of New-England. A new edition improved; with a sketch of his Life. Second edition. 1807.-26. A Vindication of the Dissenters in the City of Litchfield, against the Charges brought against them. 1808. -27. Memoirs of Dr. Watts, prefixed to the new edition ELIM-COURT, FETTER-LANE.-General Baptist. of his Works in Quarto. 1810.-28. Several Tracts published by the Religious Tract Society.-Besides the foregoing, we understand that Mr. Burder is the writer of a great number of small pieces in the Gospel Magazine; the Theological Miscellany; the Christian Magazine; and the Evangelical Magazine. ON N the site of the present meeting-house, formerly stood a substantial brick-building, which is said to have been originally in the occupation of the celebrated Mr. John Wesley. It was afterwards held for some years by Mr. JOHN GREEN, a Calvinistical clergyman, in Mr. Whitefield's connexion, and who, we believe, received his orders from one of the mendicant Greek bishops. Mr. Green, besides being an occasional assistant to Mr. Whitefield, also taught school, by which he raised a subsistence. One day, as he was hearing some of his scholars read in the fourteenth chapter of the first epistle to the Corinthians, he was led to reflect upon the mode of prophesying mentioned in that chapter, and thought it justified the order observed by the Quakers. He, therefore, proposed to a venerable friend, the institution of a meeting in a similar way. Monday evenings, were the times appointed for holding these meetings. He began as usual, and after following a short ELIM-COURT, FETTER-LANE.-General Baptist sermon with singing an hymn, he sat down and gave liberty to any one who was disposed to speak of the work of grace upon his heart, or to deliver a short exhortation. The meeting was usually crowded; it began late and held long. At this time Mr. Green also preached a Sunday evening lecture, at Dudley-court, St. Giles's. Of this gentleman, the late Mr. Cornelius Winter has left the following character upon record. "Of Mr Green it is to be observed, that he was a fine classical scholar, and that he also understood the mathematics well. He said he was a competent master of eight languages, but he was a very uncouth reader and speaker. He never could gain a congregation at Tottenham-court; at Fetter-lane he met with attention. The liberty he gave to any to speak, opened a way for the Antinomians to deliver their sentiments, with whom he entered into large and long public disputations. His Monday evening exercises degenerated into formal disputes, and knowing his strength he was fond of them. The Arians took him up, and by one of them he was one evening so foiled, that he publicly acknowledged he had been wrong all his life in his notions of the Trinity, notwithstanding he had published upon the subject. In this state of mind he continued a week. It produced great distress of soul, and though he died sound in the faith, he was so shocked by his temporary recantation of it, that he never after lifted up his head.”* The person above alluded to, by whom Mr. Green was so foiled, was Mr. John Marsom, who then preached on Wednesday evenings, to a company of anti-trinitarians, át a house in Drury-lane. Of the occasion and progress of this controversy, Mr. Marsom drew up a particular account, and sent it to the Monthly Repository; where it was printed in one of the early numbers of last year. In the • Memoirs of the Rev. Corn. Winter, by W. Jay, p. 56, 57. ELIM-COURT, FETTER-LANE.General Baptist. week subsequent to this change, which was the last week of Mr. Green's ministry, he preached several discourses upon the points then in dispute; and is said to have been as precipitate and unguarded in defending his new sentiments, as he had been formerly in opposing them. This threw him into difficulties. "The shock of Mr. Green's fall (says Mr. Marsom) was felt through the whole connexion; and a general alarm was spread. A fast was kept at the Lock Chapel, (c) and in several private families, on the occa sion. Mr. Green was given to understand, that he would not be permitted to administer the sacrament any more at Tottenham-court chapel. Some of the ministers, and leading persons in the connexion, used every possible means to influence him to make a recantation. By them he was in a measure compelled to go into the pulpit for that purpose, where all he said was, The snare is broken, and I am escaped; I will never dispute any more;' when bursting into a flood of tears, they were obliged to lead him down. From that time the distress of his mind was intolerable, and in a very few days terminated in his death."* Mr. Marsom is not willing to allow that Mr. Green reverted back to orthodoxy before his death. He reports,. upon the information of a friend who was with him in his last moments, that Mr. Green said, "Mr. Elliot was right, but people did not understand him." It may be proper to observe here, that the system which Mr. Green gave into was proper Sabellianism, and not what usually passes under the name of Unitarianism in the present day. The dispute (c) This is much to be doubted; the fast might, perhaps, have been kept by some of his friends who belonged to the Lock Chapel. * Monthly Repository for January, 1809. VOL. III. 3 P ELIM-COURT, FETTER-LANE.-General Baptist. before-mentioned, and Mr. Green's death, both happened about the year 1773. After Mr. Green's death, the meeting-house in Elimcourt was occupied by various persons, till it was taken by a society of General and Anti-trinitarian Baptists, under the care of Mr. EBENEZER SMITH. Mr. Smith had been assistant preacher to Dr. Gifford, at Eagle-street, and was expected to succeed him; but renouncing the doctrine of the Trinity, he was necessarily thrown out of that connexion. As several persons adhered to him, they procured a chapel in Margaret-street, Oxford-street, which was then unoccupied, excepting for an evening lecture by the noted Mr. Huntingdon. There, Mr. Smith raised a congregation, and after a short time, removed to Mr. Green's meeting-house, in Fetter-lane. There, he formed them into a church upon his own principles, but continued with them only a few years. Upon the death of his father, who was an iron-founder, at Chesterfield, in Derbyshire, he quitted the ministry in 1785, and succeeded to his father's business. He is still living, we believe, at Chesterfield. After the removal of Mr. Smith, the church in Elimcourt sent an invitation to Mr. ABRAHAM AUSTIN, then minister of a General Baptist society, at Sutton-Colefield, in Warwickshire. This call he accepted, and removed to London in the year just mentioned. Not long after his settlement here, his meeting-house was entirely consumed by fire. This melancholy event happened in December, 1788; and with the building, the church-book, and many valuable letters and papers were destroyed. Afterwards, the congregation assembled in White-Lion-court, Wych-street, till the present place was completed in 1790. It is a square substantial brick-building, with four galleries, extending round the place; and behind the pulpit is placed an organ. In this appendage, it differs from most other places of worship ' among the recognized Dissenters. As the building is raised |