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[67] they might choose another in his place. This, however, was not the course they chose to adopt. Mr. Boyse brought the affair before a meeting of the presbyterian ministers in Dublin, who seem to have been allowed to exercise a sort of controul and inquisitorial interference in the concerns of other congregations, which those of us who in this country still call ourselves by that name are at a loss to comprehend, A conference took place between Mr. E. and this conclave, at which he candidly explained his sentiments, and they, without further deliberation or delay, cast him off, and decreed that he should not preach any more; and this without any communication with his own flock, the only parties who had any real concern in the affair, of which as yet they were utterly ignorant. Mr. E. immediately called the deacons and other managers of the church together, acquainted them with the circumstances, and requested their dismissal. To this they were unwilling to accede, but proposed to him to go away presently into England for awhile, to afford time for further consideration. The ministers gave their sanction to the arrangement, but withal charged him not to preach during his absence. To this imperious mandate he returned a spirited reply, asserting his undoubted right and full determination to use his discretion in this matter without asking for their permission. He accordingly departed for England, though with great personal inconvenience, the very next day.

‘And now,’ says he, ‘I had leisure to look back; for when so few days' space had made so great a change in my condition, that I was turned out to wander abroad desolate and in uncertainty, I saw ’