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(he adds) is your act as well as ours. But the authoritative separating and commissioning him to the work is not your act, but primarily the Lord's, and secondarily our acting in his name. If we are to rely on the account given by Mr. Fox, of Plymouth, in his curious and biographical papers, See Monthly Repository, O. S., vol. XVI. Mr. Peirce was not indisposed, as long as his popularity continued, to carry matters with a high hand in the assembly; and he even insinuates that, if his fallture 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. I