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le part of his congregation, is rational and proper enough; but it is obviously spoiled in its application to this particular instance, by the prescribed declaration of conformity to a creed of human composition by which it is introduced. The general meeting, at which this important question was discussed and put to the vote, was held at Salters' Hall, from which circumstance the whole dispute has received the name of the Salters' Hall Controversy. At the final decision, the Bible (as Sir J. Jekyl wittily expressed it) carried it by 4; the numbers being 57 to 53. Dr. Calamy (in his Memoirs lately published Calamy's Life and Times, II. 417.), at the conclusion of his account of this dispute, in which he refused to take any part, though earnestly solicited on both sides, has the following very just remarks: As to the grand matter which they contended about, I was entirely of the mind of the celebrated Mr. Chillingworth, who closes his preface to The religion of Protestants