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 very patiently before he published: and all his works are valuable for their accurate learning, whichever side the reader may take.)

1859. The Cottle Church.—For more than twenty years printed papers have been sent about in the name of Elizabeth Cottle. It is not so remarkable that such papers should be concocted as that they should circulate for such a length of time without attracting public attention. Eighty years ago Mrs. Cottle might have rivalled Lieut. Brothers or Joanna Southcott. Long hence, when the now current volumes of our journals are well-ransacked works of reference, those who look into them will be glad to see this feature of our time: I therefore make a few extracts, faithfully copied as to type. The Italic is from the New Testament; the Roman is the requisite interpretation:—

'Robert Cottle "was numbered (5196) with the transgressors" at the back of the Church in Norwood Cemetery, May 12, 1858—Isa. liii. 12. The Rev. J. G. Collinson, Minister of St. James's Church, Clapham, the then district church, before All Saints was built, read the funeral service over the Sepulchre wherein never before man was laid.

'Hewn on the stone, "at the mouth of the Sepulchre," is his name, Robert Cottle, born at Bristol, June 2, 1774; died at Kirkstall Lodge, Clapham Park, May 6, 1858. And that day (May 12, 1858) was the preparation (day and year for "the place for you"—Cottleites—by the widowed mother of the Father's house, at Kirkstall Lodge—John xiv. 2, 3. And the Sabbath (Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 1859) drew on (for the resurrection of the Christian body on "the third [Protestant Sun]-day"—1 Cor. xv. 35). Why seek ye the living (God of the New Jerusalem—Heb. xii. 22; Rev. iii. 12) among the dead (men) he (the God of Jesus) is not here (in the grave), but is risen (in the person of the Holy Ghost, from the supper of "the dead in the second death" of Paganism). Remember how he spake unto you (in the church of the Rev. George Clayton, April 14, 1839). I will not drink henceforth (at this last Cottle supper) of the fruit of this (Trinity) vine, until that day (Christmas Day, 1859), when I (Elizabeth Cottle) drink it new with you (Cottleites) in my Father's Kingdom—John xv. If this (Trinitarian) cup may not pass away from me (Elizabeth Cottle, April 14, 1839), except I drink it ("new with you Cottleites, in my Father's Kingdom"), thy will be done—Matt. xxvi. 29, 42, 64. "Our Father which art (God) in Heaven," hallowed be thy name, thy (Cottle) kingdom come, thy will be done in earth, as it is (done) in (the new) Heaven (and new earth of the new name of Cottle—Rev. xxi. 1; iii. 12).

'…Queen Elizabeth, from 1558 to 1566. And this yet once more (by a second Elizabeth—the  of his oath) signifieth (at John Scott's baptism of the Holy Ghost) the removing of those things (those Gods and those doctrines) that are made (according to the Creeds