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June 1777
Zebulon Crocker,
Oct. 1831
Joshua Johnson,
Samuel Porter,
June 1835
Timothy Woodbridge, John Lewis,
Oct., 1778
Luzerne Ray,
Oct. 1835
June, 1780 Josiah Abbott,
June 1838
William Plum,
June, 1781 Henry Clark,
Oct. 1838
Joseph Barker,
Amos S. Chesebrough,
June 1839
Fred. W. Hotchkiss,
Oct., 1782 James Averill,
Aug. 1839
Joshua Williams,
Thomas Bailey,
Thomas Low,
Phincas Blakeman,
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David Selden,
June, 1783
Sidney Bryant,
Zephaniah Hollister Smith,
Charles P. Bush,
66
Wait Cornwell,
Feb., 1784
David B. Coe, Horace Day,
Jonathan Fuller, Ethan Osborn,
June, 1786 Charles Dickinson,
David Higgins,
Edgar J. Doolittle,
Samuel Kellogg,
Oct., 1787 Stedman W. Hanks,
66
Elija Gridley,
June, 1788 Philo R. Hurd, 66
Jacob Sherwin,
Eliphalet Huntington,
66
Selden Church,
Feb., 1774
John Willard, Jr.,
June, 1784 Friend A. Deming,
NAME.
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NAME.
DATE.
NAME.
DATE.
David Judson,
Aug. 1838
Ralph Perry,
Oct., 1842
Benjamin N. Martin,
James Kilbourn,
James P. McCord,
יו Wm. S. Wright,
June, 1843 66
Colby C. Mitchel,
Wm. A. Thompson,
Oscar F. Parker,
John S. Whittlesey,
66
Charles Rich,
Nathaniel H. Eggleston,
66
Thomas Tallman,
66
Lewis Edwards Sykes,
Horace A. Taylor,
66
S. R. Davis,
June, 1845
Elias Clark,
W. W. Belden,
Oct., 1845
Israel P. Warren,
June, 1841
Guy B. Day,
Oct., 1847
Isaac W. Plummer,
Oct., 1842 John H. Newton,
June, 1854
Rollin D. H. Allen,
June, 1844
Samuel M. Wood,
LITCHFIELD NORTH ASSOCIATION.
The Association of Litchfield County was formed July 7th, 1752, and then embraced the pastors of all the Congregational churches within the county. The churches were at the same time organized into a Consociation. In 1791, the Consociation was divided, and the Association was divided the next year ; the limits of each corresponding with those of the Consociation. The As- sociation, when it embraced all the Congregational pastors in the county, were remarkably harmonious in their views of truth and duty.
The following extract from their minutes, dated May, 1757, shows what were their views on theological subjects : "Whereas, the Rev. General As- sociation in their meeting, June, 1756, recommended it to the particular As- sociations of this colony to manifest their concurrence with the Saybrook Confession of Faith ; this Association having taken it into consideration, do hereby declare their unanimous assent and consent to the articles of the Christian religion contained in said publie confession so far as they are con- tained in the Assembly of Divines' Shorter Catechism ; and as to the plat- form of discipline, we think it not expedient that any alteration be made in the public impression ; but that every Consociation be at liberty to vary in such things as to them appear exceptionable."
A practice of the Association, designed to prevent the introduction of un- sound men into their body, was that of examining those who had received a call for settlement before an answer to such call might be given. The fol- lowing is an example of their practice: "Mr. Samuel John Mills [having] offered himself to examination, in order to his being approved of for ordina- tion in the work of the gospel ministry over the church and people of Tor- ringford, was examined and approved, and recommended to them as a meet person, qualified to settle with them in that work." Sept. 20, 1768.
It was customary, also, for destitute churches of that day to request the Association to recommend to them suitable persons to be employed as can- didates for settlement.
The period, from the formation of these ecclesiastical bodies in 1752 to the division of them in 1791, was for the greater part of it a time of great ca- lamity and distress, by reason of war and the unsettled state of the colonies. Instead of directing their attention to Christianizing the heathen, they had, in common with others, to exert all their influence to prevent their coming under the dominion of a persecuting Roman Catholic government. While everything was thus unfriendly to the religious prosperity of the churches, the Association yet ever evinced a readiness to engage in any en- terprise which promised good to the cause of Christ or the welfare of man. Witness their annual delegation to the convention of ministers of the synods of New York and Philadelphia, from 1766 to 1775, when those conventions were terminated by the Revolutionary war. See the measures they adopted in 1774 for promoting the education of pious negroes for missionaries to Af-
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rica, and for the extension of the gospel in Virginia in 1779. To this may be added their ready response to a call for a mission to Vermont in 1788.
Those fathers and brethren lived in times which occasioned hardships and self-denials of which we have no experience. The newness of the settle- ments-the imperfect state of the roads-the distance they had to travel in attending ecclesiastical meetings-the straightened condition of their churches and societies during the French and Revolutionary wars, and other difficul- ties with which they had to struggle, laid on them burdens of no ordinary weight. The manner in which most of them bore those burdens, proved them to be good soldiers of Jesus Christ. Some of them were chaplains in the army, and suffered privations and toils peculiar to that service.
The harmony, zeal, and success with which many of those fathers labored in promoting revivals of religion near the close of the last century and the former part of the present, are too well known to require a particular descrip- tion.
Of the forty-four ministers who belonged to the Association previous to this division, twelve passed the fiftieth year of their ministry with the same people.
1795. The Association, after discussion, resolved, that the duty of fam- ily prayer is so elearly enjoined by the general tenor of scripture, that the habitual neglect of it in a professor of Christianity, is censurable even to ex- communication.
1796. Resolved, That it is inexpedient for ministers to travel on the Sab- bath for the purpose of exchange, except in cases of urgent necessity.
1798. Association drafted and adopted a constitution for a missionary so- ciety.
1811. Resolved, That the use of wine and all . other ardent spirits shall henceforth be excluded from our associational meetings. That the members of the Association will use their influence to discountenance the use of wine and all ardent spirits in their families and in their social visits among their people.
LICENTIATES.
NAME.
WHEN LICENSED. NAME.
WHEN LICENSED.
Daniel Smith,
Oct. 2, 1792
John Woodbridge,
June, 1807
Thomas Robbins,
Sep. 25, 1798
Win. Bonney,
June, , 1807
Josiah B. Hawes,
Sep. 28, 1802
Caleb Pitkin,
June, 1807
- James Beach, June 11, 1805 John Keep, June 11, 1805
Franeis King,
June 14, 1808
John IIyde,
June 11, 1805
Horatio Waldo,
June 14, 1808
Josiah W. Cannon,
June 11, 1805 June 11, 1805
Daniel Haskell,
Sep. 27, 1808
Moses Gillett,
Lueas Hart, Sep. 25, 1810
Abel McEwen,
Francis L. Robbins,
Sep. 30, 1813
Experience Porter,
Solyman Brown,
Sep. 30, 1813
Thomas Punderson,
Luther Humphrey,
Sep. 27, 1814
Prince Hawes,
Ruggles Gould, Walter Smith,
Sep. 29, 1815
Timothy P. Gillett,
Sep. 30, 1818
Bennett Tyler,
Sep. 30, 1806 Chauncey Lee,
Sep. 26, 1820
Heman Humphrey,
Sep. 30, 1806 Abraham Baldwin,
June, 1822
Frederick Marsh,
Sep. 30, 1806
James Ely,
June. 1829
Sep. 24, 1805 Dee. 21, 1805
June 11, 1806 June 11, 1806 Sep. 30, 1806
Allen McLean. Sep. 29, 1809
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Jacob Catlin, John H. Prentice,
Sep. 30, 1823 Ephraim Lyman,
June, 1835
Sep. 30, 1823
Willis Lord,
May, 1834
George Cowles,
June 8, 1824
Milo N. Niles,
May,
1834
Stephen Peet,
Sep. 27, 1824
David C. Perry,
Mar. 28, 1836
IIarley Goodwin,
Sep. 1825
E. W. Andrews,
May 23, 1837
Jairus Burt,
June 13, 1826 June 10, 1828
Almond B. Pratt,
June 9, 1841
Henry Cowles,
June 10, 1828
Hiram Harris Ruyter,
Sep. 29, 1841
Josephus B. Loring,
June 9, 1829
Henry B. Blake,
June 13, 1843
John M. S. Perry,
June 8, 1830
Azariah Eldridge,
Sep. 24, 1844
Eleazer Holt,
June 14, 1831
E. B. Andrews,
June 4, 1845
John P. Pepper,
June 11, 1833
Samuel J. Andrews,
June 16, 1846
Charles T. Prentice,
Sep. 30, 1834
Elisha Whittlesey,
June 12, 1849
Oliver St. John,
June 9, 1841
Peter A. Brinsmade,
LITCHFIELD SOUTH ASSOCIATION.
The Association of Litchfield County, formed in 1752, was divided in 1792. At first there were fifteen churches, and before the division they had increased to twenty-eight. At the close of a century from the organization of the original Association and Consociation, in 1852, both bodies, sixty years after the division, met in convention at Litchfield for a century cele- bration. There were then forty-four churches; and two have been since formed. Discourses were delivered on that occasion ; a historical address by Rev. D. L. Parmelee ; an address on the religious society of the olden time, by Rev. E. W. Hooker, D. D .; biographical sketches of Litchfield county ministers were read by Rev. Abel McEwen, D. D., and Rev. Cyrus Yale ; and a report respecting revivals, by Rev. Joseph Eldridge, D. D.
During the first forty years, the Association rarely failed of two sessions annually, with many occasional meetings. Its advice was constantly sought by vacant churches in obtaining candidates. Pastors only were members of it. No one was dismissed by vote ; its entire action was by those who were pastors ; and its watch and care were extended over those who had been dis- missed and continued unsettled. In the important duty of licensing candi- dates, the Association was strict and faithful ; probably the majority of them were students of Dr. Bellamy, who kept one of the early "schools of the prophets."
In regard to the sacredness of the pastoral relation, as held in early times, the case of Dr. Bellamy is worthy of note. The Presbyterian church in New York City had given him a call, and the Consociation of Litchfield county, after several adjournments, found the affair attended with such diffi- culties, as well as in its own nature of such importance, that they did not look upon it as safe for them finally to determine on the case, but asked the assistance of the neighboring Consociation, (Fairfield East.) After two months the two bodies met at Bethlem, but did not come to their result till the fourth day. Though they commiserated the destitute and melancholy circumstances of the Presbyterian congregation in New York, yet, with all the attending circumstances, in the best light afforded, they thought it not for the honor of our common Lord and the best interests of our holy reli- gion for Dr. Bellamy to be dismissed. Had he gone there, his ministry would have been suspended during the most of the period of the Revolution- ary war ; also his school of the prophets ; and possibly his labors as a theo- logical writer had not blessed the church.
Some few of the churches were for a time affected by the Separatists ; two or three pastors, in a measure, sympathized or favored them; but, as sober second thoughts prevailed, the evil gradually ceased, in a way, that while some suffered loss, yet all escaped safe to land and returned to the old paths.
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With regard to Sabbath schools, as their origin has been a question of in- terest, it is proper to state that Dr. Bellamy, whose ministry commenced in Bethlem, in 1740, had a Sabbath school from the beginning. It was com- posed of two classes; the older class was instructed by the pastor himself in the scriptures, from which they learned portions and were questioned upon them ; and the other class studied the Assembly's Catechism, under the in- struction of a deacon or some prominent member of the church.
The half-way covenant caused much trouble where it was adopted. For the sake of peace, it was recommended to churches to dismiss those who could not acquiesce in their practice to a neighboring church where the usage was the reverse. The great majority of the early pastors were firm in the faith ; the influence of Dr. Bellamy and of others was for good beyond what the records show.
The pastors of the county, with scarcely an exception were, in instruction, influence and practice, on the side of temperance; they were pioneers in the work; they performed their full portion of labor in annual missionary tours among the forming settlements in Vermont and central and western New York. While annual collections were taken under a " brief " from the Governor for the Connecticut Missionary Society, the contributions of the churches were among the most liberal ; and still later the various benevolent objects have been well sustained. It is said during the early years of the American Board, as the annual remittance from this county was received in a pressing emergency, that Dr. Worcester, its first secretary, thanked God that he had made Litchfield county.
The Consociational system of Litchfield South has generally commended itself to the churches in its successful workings. The opposition to it has been chiefly because it was not an ecclesiastical court, to accommodate those of such hasty spirit that they are not willing to wait peaceably for the result of peaceable reference. But such opposition has been chiefly occasional, temporary and spasmodic. Only one church in more than two-thirds of a century has withdrawn, and that more than half a century ago, but has long since retuned. The Consociation has combined every advantage of a select council, while it has given stability and influence to its results, which occasional councils could not have done in the same degree. It has been a bond of union and love among the pastors and churches. It is so es- timated by ecclesiastical societies, and several of them hold their funds on condition that their ministers are approved by the Consociation. Of the influence of Consociations, whether their acts have been advisory or judicial, their doings have, with rare exceptions, been approved; though for a time, some may have been disappointed in their results and grieved or offend- ed. The fact that nearly every church voluntarily continues its connection, is the best testimony that Consociations are a bond of union and fellowship among the churches, and of assistance to them. Their perpetuity is proof of their usefulness. See Proceedings at the Litchfield County Centennial Anniversary, 1852.
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LICENTIATES.
NAMES.
NAMES.
1754 Noah Wadhams.
Benajah Roots,
Benjamin Chapman,
1755 Josiah Sherman,
1823 Giles Doolittle,
Seth Norton,
Benj. B. Smith,
1756 Simeon Stoddard,
1824 Samuel G. Orton,
1757 John Smalley,
1826 Moses Raymond, Jr.,
1758 Benoni Bradner,
1828 Isaac Beach,
" Caleb Curtis,
1829 Theron Baldwin,
1760 William Hanna,
1762 Benjamin Prince,
" Asa Turner,
" Richard Crouch Graham,
David A. Grosvencr,
1763 David Brownson,
" James T. Dickinson,
1764 Ephraim Judson,
George J. Tillotson,
1766 Samuel J. Mills,
1830 Wyllys Warner,
Samuel Camp,
1831 Sidney Mills,
Henry Jackson,
1832 John P. Cowles,
1833 Levi S. Beebe,
1834 Richard M. Chipman,
Jonathan Edwards,
1835 Merit T. Platt,
1767 Jeremiah Day,
" Isaae W. Warner,
1768 Jehu Miner,
George T. Todd,
1769 Joel Benedict,
William Pitcher,
1770 Abner Benedict,
1836 George Tomlinson,
Samuel W. Pond,
" Isaae Story,
Thomas Miner,
" Nathaniel Richardson,
" Merritt Richardson,
" Reuben Gaylord,
1772 Josiah Colton,
1775 William Bradford,
1778 Noble Everett,
1779 Justus Mitchel,
1840 Isaac Striker,
Henry Clarke,
" Anson Smyth,
1841 John II. Pettingell,
Andrew L. Stone,
1842 James II. Howe,
William R. Chapman,
" George T. Dole,
" Isaae Jennings,
" Isaae G. Sawyer,
" Ephraim W. Allen,
" Ebenezer P. Rogers,
1809 Joseph Harvey,
Judson IIall
Austin Hazen,
1811 John Seward,
Mathew Rice Dutton,
Elisha W. Cook,
William Baldwin,
Albert K. Teele,
David B. Davidson,
1812 Ammi Linsley,
1815 Edwin W. Dwight,
1845 Chauneey H. Hubbard,
William Smeaton,
" Joshua Knapp,
1839 Samuel G. Whittlesey,
William T. Balelı,
" Walter Clark,
1780 John Stevens,
1781 Benjamin Bell,
1784 Isaac Osborn.
1789 Chauncey Lee,
1791 Nathan Eliot,
1796 John Clark,
1800 Benjamin Prime,
1803 Charles Prentice,
1805 Aaron Dutton,
1806 Mills Day,
1844 Darius M. Hoyt,
Ira II. Smith,
Charles Fabrique,
" Asa Blair,
Joseph Treat,
" Alfred Mitchell,
1816 Elias Cornelius,
1822 Erastus Clapp, 66 Herman L. Vaill,
". Julian M. Sturtevant,
Moses IIartwell,
Job Sınitlı,
Josiah Graves, Lemuel L. Bacon,
1838 Henry F. Wadsworth, Austin Isham,
1771 Nathan Hale,
MIDDLESEX ASSOCIATION.
When the Saybrook Platform went into operation, the ministers then living within the present limits of Middlesex Association belonged to the Associa. tions in the counties of New London and Hartford. They and their churches were also connected with the Consociation in those counties. The erection of Middlesex county in 1785, consisting of towns taken from the counties of New London and Hartford, opened the way for an ecclesiastical change. Accordingly, at a meeting of the members of the Western Association of New London, living within the limits of the new county, held October 2d, 1787, a resolution was passed, That, whereas the IHonorable General As- sembly of this state have formed a new county by the name of Middlesex, it becomes expedient, according to the Platform, that an Association and Con- sociation should be formed consisting of ministers and churches within the county. These bodies were accordingly formed by the ministers and churches of Saybrook and Killingworth, (six churches and six pastors,) giv- ing full liberty to those of Hartford South within the limits of the new county to retain their former connection or join the new body, as they might judge expedient ; and also agreeing to receive the pastor and churches of Lyme according to their desire.
Agreeably to these provisions, the ministers of Haddam, Middle Haddam, East Hampton, Westchester in Colchester, East Haddam and Lyme, and also the churches at Deep River and Essex, since formed, united with the Association. The churches and ministers of Middletown and Portland, as a matter of convenience, retain their connection with Hartford South. Durham, annexed to the county in 1799, for the same reason retains its con- nection with New Haven East.
The rules and usages of this body are much like those of the other Asso- ciations of the State.
LICENTIATES.
NAME.
WHEN LICENSED.
NAME.
WHEN LICENSED.
John Ely,
June 3, 1788 William Bushnell,
Matthew Noyes,
Sep. 3, 1788
Josiah S. Emery,
John Eliot,
July 7, 1790
Isaac Hill,
June 4, 18333
Diodate Broekway,
Oet. 3, 1798
Ellery Bascom.
William F. Vaill,
Sep. 15, 1807
Marvin Root,
Jonathan Cone,
Mar. 1810
Samuel R. Ely,
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Samuel T. Mills,
Oet. 2, 1810
Elias P. Ely, Oliver B. Butterfield,
Oct. 2,1833
Sylvester Selden,
June 1, 1813
Wm. C. Foote, Z. R. Ely, Henry M. Field,
Oet. 6, 1840
William Mitehel,
June 5, 1821
Edward W. Champlin,
Oet. 5, 1841
Jonathan Silliman,
Frederick A. Pratt,
June 7,1842
Noah Smith,
Edgar Perkins,
June 6, 1843
George W. Boggs,
June 8, 1831
Wm. W. Atwater,
Ang. 7, 1849
June 7, 1836 66
Joseph Vaill, 2d, William Ely,
June 3, 1817
Israel Shaler,
June 2, 1818
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Franklin Holmes,
Ang. 7, 1849 Allyn S. Kellogg, Aug. 7, 1849
Henry D. Platt,
66 Edwin Johnson,
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Edward D. Chapman,
June 3, 1851
Richard B. Bull,
Oct. 4, 1854
John C. IIutehinson, Oet. 4, 1859
NEW HAVEN CENTRAL ASSOCIATION.
This Association was formed May 3d, 1853, by members from the New Haven West and New Haven East Associations-chiefly from New Haven West. Its local limits are not exactly defined. Its present members are chiefly in New Haven city and town, and in towns in New Haven county, upon the New York and New Haven and the Naugatuck railroads. The object of the Association is that the members may promote each other's improve- ment in all the qualifications for the ministry of the gospel, and to aid each other in the duties of the pastoral office, and in advancing the interests of the churches. For this object they meet every month, and have an annual meeting for review of the year in June.
LICENTIATES.
1853.
William Elliott Bassett,
Greenleaf Cheney,
Stephen Fenn,
James A. Gallup,
1857. J. II. Anketell, Henry Loomis, C. C. Tiffany. 1858. Edward A. Walker,
Leonard W. Bacon. 1854. Willis S. Colton,
Edward P. Wells. 1859. George M. Smith,
J. L. Jenkins,
J. Y. Leonard,
Theodore T. Munger,
Charles B. Dye, Richard Crittenden,
C. T. Seropyan,
J. L. Tomlinson,
Henry Case. 1855.
Horace H. McFarland. 1860. George B. Bacon,
Charles C. Carpenter,
E. N. Crossman,
Edgar L. Heermanee,
Charles H. Bassett, HIenry Loseh, Andrew J. Willard. 1956. Kinsley Twining,
P. H. Holister,
Daniel A. Miles, John L. Mills,
Charles M. Tyler,
Chauncey D. Murray,
Andrew F. Dickson, Benj. B. Hopkinson,
Chester N. Righter, James Weller, Sylvanus P. Marvin, Swift Byington,
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NEW HAVEN EAST ASSOCIATION.
There are no records of the meetings of the Association back of March 28th, 1734 ; though the record book is dated May 27th, 1731. Long previous to this, the Association not only existed, but probably, as afterwards, embra - ced all the ordained ministers of the county. Soon after the adoption of the Saybrook Platform in 1708, the Associati "I took a compact form ; though the ministers had frequent meetings before that time, as is evident from the comment on the 12th article of discipline in the Platform, agreed upon at the meeting which formed the Consociation, April, 1709.
The minutes of that meeting are contained in the first book of records of the Association ;- present Rev. Messrs. Andrew of New Haven, Pierpont of Milford, Russell of Branford, Moss of Derby, and Hart of East Guil- ford, with their delegates, of whom there were two from each church except Derby and East Guilford. The object of this organization was stated to be that communion which is a principal means for the preservation of the peace, order, establishment and consolation of the churches. Votes were also passed on thirteen "articles of the method of managing dis- cipline as it was agreed on by the council at Saybrook, September, 1708," at the request of "some members desiring the council's sense " of those articles. Since these comments show the understanding of the sys- tem by its friends, they are here inserted. By comparing them with the text of the Platform, which they are designed to illustrate, their full mean- ing will be gathered.
1. As to the first article, we conclude, if the majority of the brethren do not consent, the elders cannot proceed to act. If the elders cannot consent, the fraternity cannot proceed, in which case it is proper to seek counsel.
2. The second article we understand to be an explanation and revival of that duty engaged by our churches when they give the right hand of fellow- ship.
3. The third article ; by " all cases of scandal," we suppose such cases as need a council for their determination.
4. A major part of the elders we suppose necessary ; as in a particular church the brethren cannot act without the elders, so in a council the mes- sengers may not make an act of council without the elders, or a major part of them.
5. "Shall see their determination," &c., i. e. shall by themselves or by some of their members deputed thereunto, observe whether their counsel sought of God in this way be complied with or refused.
6. Contempt of counsel, sought or offered in the way of God, must be scandalous as a just offence, and should be dealt with ; and the clause, viz : "The churches are to approve of such sentence," &c., we understand as the Platform expresseth it, viz: The churches being informed of the council's judgment, and the churches approving of said sentence, then non-com-
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munion to be declared. Without the approbation of the churches there can- not be a non-communion of said churches.
7. The seventh article only provides for joining two councils in weighty, difficult, and dangerous cases.
8. Churches may call a council before they proceed to censure, if they see cause. But without their allowance, no particular person may have a council before excommunication.
9. That as no member of a council can remain such for longer than one year, so the churches may choose new messengers for every council if they see cause.
10. The tenth article directs with regard to the calling a first council and adjourning the same not beyond a year, and how further councils may afterwards be called.
11. The eleventh article shows how persons concerned may be obliged to attend with their cases and evidence on a council.
12. The twelfth article is a revival of our former ministers' meetings (Asso- ciations) for the ends and good service formerly aimed at, wherein our peo- ple did rejoice for a season and as we hope yet will.
13. The thirteenth article shows how a minister offending may be pro- ceeded against, till by the council of that Consociation he be reclaimed or removed from his office.
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