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point of vlfctr ; for the Iftdepeiwtents , M the main , continued the supporters of the system of faith laid down by John Calvin , whilst the Presbyterians , who had many of them embraced the more moderate opinions of Richard Baxter , preached up a more extended toleration than had previously
prevailed in the Christian world , and by degrees advocated an unlimited use of reason in matters of religion , as in any other inferior science . Whatever might have been the effect on individuals of the momentous questions , particularly on the subject of the Trinity , which were agitated at the conclusion of the seventeenth and
couimeiM > emetit of the eighteenth centuries , it does not appear that the Lancashire divines took any prominent part in them . They continued to meet in their four district classes , and minutes of their proceedings were probably regularly kept . Part of the records
of the Warrington classis is preserved in the Library of the Unitarian Chapel , Renshaw Street , Liverpool , amongf the papers of Dr . Henry Winder , minister of Benn ' s Garden Chapel there , and many years scribe to that district . The Provincial Meetings of the "
Associated Ministers of Lancashire / ' as they were now called , also were regularly held , at which the custom of appointing * a Moderator and Scribe was observed , who kept up so much show of authority over the members , as to ask from each answers to various
questions put to them with a view of ascertaining the state of affairs in the churches . Several causes operated gradually to introduce a relaxation of discipline , and the ceremony was at length abandoned as inconsistent with the latitude claimed of acting more on the Congregational plan . A
growing impatience of the custom had become manifest , and it sunk finally into disuse in consequence of the ridicule thrown upon it by some of the ministers , and more particularly by Mr . Owen , of Rochdale , and Mr . Wood , * of Chowbent , both of them renowned us men of wit , and enemies to every semblance of priestcraft
Hie * ' Associated Ministers" continued the meetings of their body till the year 1764 , when a union took
• Better known by the title of General .
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place with the ministers of ^ GJfaeslnre who hart previously ^ beeti associated separatel y * The circumstances are best explained by ^ re ference to a sermon preached © a the occasion by Dr . Priestley , then a Tutor at Warrington Academy , entitled , "No Man
liveth to Himself , x * Sermon , preached before an Assembly of Protestant Dissenting Ministers of the Counties of Lancashire and Cheshire , met at Manchester , May 16 , 1764 , to carry into Execution a Scheme for the Relief of their Widows and Children , and published at their Request . "
From this period an annual Assembly has been held of the ministers of the two counties , at which , till recently , the management of the ^ Wi - dows' Fund" has been the principal
subject of attention ; the meeting to this day , as has been the . case through . all the changes it has seen , retaining the original title of " Provincial , " given to it by the Parliamentary Ordinance of 1646 . H . TAYLOR .
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Sir , August Y 2 , 1826 . n ^ TOTWITHST ANDlNG the _ jL ^ I events which followed so immediately on the termination of the revolutionary war with France were so opposite to every expectation of
what is foretold in the Scripture account of the war of Armageddon , yet I cannot divest iny mind but that it is the same war , pr series of wars , which sprang froni the French revolution . This may appear at variance with the immediate result ; but the
commencement and progress are so strongly in unison with the prophetic description in every other particular circumstance , that it seems almost impossible that any similar combination can ever happen again , especially since the dissolution of the unholy combination of the continental powers
of Europe , called the Holy Alliance , is nearly effected ; and the nations of the continent are now too much engaged and embarrassed to attend to any but their own concerns . M <^ Jr over , the great battle of Waterlog producing those results in succession , wJuch are expected to arise from the great battle of Annjageddon . h PHIL ALETHES . N . B . Your yery able Transatlantic
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1826, page 478, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2551/page/34/
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