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    ** 10 . Mr . Hoiliaworth aad Capt n . Ashton are ordered to goe to Preston to the Meeting there , Tewsday , 2 d <> March 1646 . " . The next Classicall Meeting to be Tewsday , 16 ° March next . Mr . Furnard to preach , Mr . Heyricke ^

    Mode-. < c 12 ° . Exceptions tendered against James Parkinson ( chosen ruling Elder for Charlton ) by Nath . Taylor , who is to prove his exceptions at the rtext Class is . " 13 . Warrants sent for Mr . Woolmer , and Tho . Rudd , and his wife . «" Moderator ended with prayer . RICHo . HEYRICKE .

    * Moderator . " The form of the report of the first Meeting is preserved , with little alteration , throughout . First , as far as the ninety-fifth Meeting it is recorded , << r that the Moderator begunne with prayer ; " but afterwards , to the end , " that Mr . " ( without ever pre-€

    fixing Rev . ) < preached before the Classis according to order / ' The date of this change is , 13 th Mar . 1654 Next , the names of the Elders from the different congregations within the Classis are inserted ; with occasional

    complaints of absentees , and apologies for nonappearance . Then follow the resolutions of the Meeting on the various subjects brought before it , regularly numbered . And , lastly , it is stated , through the whole Register , iC that the Moderator ended with

    prayer . ' A great proportion of the matter contained in the Resolutions of the Meetings of the Classis , though curious enough in itself , would be too devoid of interest to general readers , and some of it , relating to what the \

    good people called puhlique scandal ! , and which , at different times , seems to have given the Meetings more trouble than they liked , ought not to be raked from ashes long extinct and cold . Here and there , however , we meet with a Resolution which throws

    considerable light upon the proceedings of the Presbyterians of those times , which is characteristic of the religious taste and attitude of the times , and which may elucidate some circumstances of our Dissenting * antiquities forgotten or imperfectly known . With a gleaning of such resolutions , if you think , Sir , they will prove interesting to any considerable proportion of your

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    readers , I ana willing occasionally to Furnish you . Betweea the third and fourth Meetings a public ordination of several

    persons took place , of which a very particular account is given . The appearance of this in the Repository without much abridgement would , I imagine , be pretty generally acceptable .

    It may be proper to add , that the Presbyterian discipline consisted of three parts : first , of congregational assemblies , each congregation being under the immediate rule of its own elders : secondly , of classical assemblies , comprehending the elders of the particular congregations in a district : and , thirdly , synodical assemblies ,

    comprehending all the classes in a county . The synodical were again

    subdivided into provincial , national and oecumenical . I refer the reader for fuller information on this subject to " The humble Advice of the Westminster Assembly of Divines concerning Church Government to the Lords and

    Commons / ' &c . This was published together with the Westminster Confession of Faith , the longer and shorter Cateehigms , the Solemn League and Covenant , &c . My copy is the fifth edition , printed in

    1717-I have been informed that the Presbyterian discipline was more completely carried into effect in Lancashire than in any other part of the kingdom , except London and Middlesex W . . J .

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    Sir , June 11 , 182 K PPREHENSIVE that the obser-Jr % - vations of your Correspondent Clericus , ( pp . 289 , 290 , ) may be applied as a justification of direct worship to Christ in his state ^ of exaltation and

    glory , I have been tempted to offer the following brief remarks . If the indwelling Deity , referred to in our Saviour ' s conversation with Philip from those words , he who hath seen me hath seen the Father , was applicable

    to him , and bim only , there might be some difficulty in explaining' the passage , since it might be considered as including a mysterious union of the Father with the Son , in the person of Christ ; See John xiv . 8 , and following verses . But when we find expresaiona

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    Union of the FatJier &ith Qhttet . 389

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1821, page 389, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2502/page/9/