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bsequent to the Act of Toleration, their founders afforded (and would seem to have in-. tended to afford) to those who came after them; the liberty of judging for themselves, and of varying their modes of worship and preaching according to what they might at any future period conceive to be most conformable to reason and scripture. The orthodox majority, of course, retained possession of the original meeting-house,. and speedily nominated successors to the ejected. ministers, one of whom (Mr. Enty, from Plymouth). was among the most active and zealous abettors of the recent illiberal proceedings. They continued, as before, to act in concert on all important occasions; but had no communication with their heretical brethren who had gone out from them. It is, however, a curious example of the silent; and unmarked progress of truth, that that genertion had not passed away when the Assembly virtually reversed the decree of 1718. It being proposed to the Assembly which met in May 1753,