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    pYWih&bjfYj k * s apostles / ' It was ( he fti / pi **^ ° f ' h f &tevers to which I referred £ and which on examination he will find ( notwithstanding *

    DrJones ' s mgemous hypothesis , f > p . 395 —399 ) to haro been practised from the earliest ugpes by the command and ender the authority of Jesus Christ our Lord . E . C .

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    London . Sir , Angu&t 5 , 1826 . OBSERVE by your last number , I ( p . 434 , ) that the < c British and Foreign Unitarian Association" has received an important acee&ion in the connexion with it , voted at the late

    " Provincial Meeting pf the Presbyterian and Unitarian Ministers of Lan * cashire and Cheshire . " Certainly , if any great object is to be attained , it can only be by an adequate union of means and exertions . If the

    principles of Unitarian Dissenters are to spread , our poor congregations to be assisted , and our civil rights protected , the power of effecting these things must somewhere be lodged , and it is

    gratifying- to witness that a growing conviction of this truth is risingamongst us . The Lancashire Ministers originally acted so conspicuous a part among the Presbyterian body , and have formed so considerable a portion of our denomination in modern

    times , that it may not be unacceptable to some of your readers , and particularly at a time when their Provincial Meeting' is assuming a somewhat different and more popular character , to # ive a few brief particulars of their history . At least , it may be well to

    put oil record seme leading facts as a clew to existing circumstances ; and the more so , as this district is reinurkiible as having- been one where the principles of Presbyterianism were the most decidedly established , and for retaining to a later period than

    any other a portion of its original characteristics . Some points to which I shall refer may , perhaps , belong properly to general history ; and if on others I am wrong in my conclusions , i shall hope for correction from those

    better informed , as what I venture to oaer has been incidentally gleaned dur J > ^ prosecution of a somewhat different object . * he wild regions . of Lancashire : preaeatjed a place of drefuge for the per-

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    se mt ^ , J ^ ath . Prot ^ ana ^ a ^^ Jjta yUife , < fcru ? £ ithe jr ^ hs . #£ , -M ^ ry ^^ E |^ ' ^ beth , \ mx 4 tfefi history jot 8 Oj ^ e , ^ af fjfS / transactions at this early period aifiardfc much interesting master for antiqua * rian research . In this dbtajjt pa « yt ^ f the kingdom , the original Rurtfiaji ^ probably enjoyed comparative euse ,,

    arid tte platform of discipline , as laid down &t Geneva by John CJ ^ lvin , aad afiterwards introdtaoed into Scotiaiii hykm disciplje John Kaax , was ^ eariy received acnong- them . The decktra tion of the unprincipled James Ly « 5 e ^ lativ ^ e to sports and recreations on Jtiie Lord ' s-day was . particularly applied to the Puritans of Lancashire , where it was ordered to be read in all the

    churches , and , dike : every otli&eraittempt at interference with the rights -of conscience , only serv > ed to increase ibe zeal of those against whom its opem « - tion was directed . Uader the system of persecution and terror which soon

    after became general , no . uniform ni'ode of church g'overnme'atvvas practicable - But the breevkkig out of the civil vvaarfi , and the meeting of the Weatmiasi ^ r Assembly , gave a different turn to the affairs of the Puritans . The * solemn

    league and covenant" which passed that body in 1643 , consummated the dissolution of the hierarchy , and rendered ather means essential for , & $ & surinfi ^ a succession of inmistera t-o supply the spiritual wants-of the people . In Lancashire , that portlou / ctf the Puritan body known as

    Preshyiterians had become so numerous , ti ^ at it was found necessary to pass a Parliamentary ordinance empowering 2 J Presbyters to ordain , pro tempore . This was in 1644 , and prepared the way , two years afterwards , for an ordinance establishing a regular

    Pr&s-bytenan government by classical 2 uid provincial meetings . This ordinance is dated 2 d October , 1646 , aud is Very long , containing the names of ministers , gentlemen and yeomen , throughout the county , who were prowiincTit on the Presbyterian side . By it the county was divided into nine clashes ,

    or Presbyteries , of which Manohester was the principal . Nl ^ ny circumstances combined to prevent the general reception of Presbyterian church government , and indeed ^ t appears no where thoroughly jUi ^ n av e established itself e ? cc £ pt i * K ' ^ U ^ qon and I ^ ancashire , iseaeJ [| r i of >\\ yJmq 1 ) l - ^ jijuis

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    History pf Presb 0 erhnpm in Xawmbfc ? . £ ] $

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1826, page 475, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2551/page/31/