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congregations in Northumberland and Durham : and if a few of your friends in each of the other counties couJd be prevailed upon to undertake the preparation of similar lists in their respective districts , a much more complete report of the present state of the Dissenting interest in all its brandies , might by this means be obtained , than Jias hitherto been in the possession of the public . If copies of such lists were afterwards circulated , each in its own county , and the several ministers , or others , were requested to furnish their respective compilers , with an account of the origin ^ and history of their meeting-houses , the succession of their ministers , with
anecdotes of such of them as have been eminent for their works , public services , &c . &c . ; and also paint out omissions and errors in their respective neighbourhoods ^ the subsequent publication of the whole , in one volume ^ would form an entertaining and instructive work .
But several good consequences , besides that of mere entertainment , would arise from such a publication . Dissenters would by this means become better acquainted with each other * both with the state of their whole body , and of their several respective classes . And they would have an opportunity of knowing how to recommend their youth , in cases of removal to distant parts , to the notice of respectable and worthy persons of their own connexion ; which , for want of such general
information as might thus be obtained , they have not at present the power of doing ; and for want of which , young persons are often left to absolute hazard , at the most critical period of their lives , in the choice of their companions , and the
formation of their most important connexions , and instead of being induced by their newly-acquired associates to continue the habits of attending public worship in which they had been brought up , are more frequently led by them to drop entirely their old religious connexions , too often without forming any new ones in their stead . The example of the Quakers
in this * and some other articles or their discipline , is highly worthy of imitation by other religious communities . » I am , &c .
NEOCOMENSIS . A LIST OF CONGREGATIONS OF PROTESTANT DISSENTERS IN THE COUNTIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM , WITH THE NAMES OF THEIR RESPECTIVE MINISTERS .
I . PRESBYTERIANS . N . B . In these ; counties only , it is probable , and in the Scots churches in London ^ the proper Presbyterian form of church discipline is still retained among the greater part of those Dis -
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24 List of Dissenting Congregations .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1806, page 24, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1720/page/24/
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