K. Charlesl . !646. ~ The HIS'TORY oft~e PuRITAN S. VoL. n. 'The tmth clq!Jis. r St. G eorge Southwark , 2 Lambeth, 3 St. Mary M agdalen Ber– mondfey, 4 St. M ary Overies, 5 Newington Bntts, 6 St. Olave Southwark, 7 Rotherhithe, S St. Thomas's Hofpital,. 9 St. T homas's Southwark. 'Ihe eleventh cla!Jis. I St. Clement Danes, z St. Giles"s in the Fields, 3 Knightfbridge, , 4 St. Margaret Weil:miniler. 5 St. Martin in the Fields-,, 6 New Church, 7 St. Peter Weil:minil:er, 8 St. Paul Covent Garden-. Cf'he twelfth clqjjis. I St. Andrew Ho!bourn, z St. Bartholomew the Greater, 3 St. Bartholomew the Lefi, 4 Charter-houfe, 5 St. Dunilan in the W eff, 6 St. James's Clerkenwell, 7 St. Mary Iflington, 8 St.. Sepulchres. R emarks. T hus the pre!byterian ecclefiaftical government began to appear in its· proper form; but new obftruC:tions arifing amongil: the minifters in the choice of reprefentatives, the .Provincial aifembly did not meet tiU next' year, nor did it ever obtain except in London and Lancajhire. T he par– liament never heartily approved it, and the intereft that fupported it being p. 634. quickly difabled, Mr. Eachard fays, '• the prefbyterians Hever faw their " dear prefbytery fettled in any one part of England." But Mr. Baxter who is a much better authority, fay s the ordinance was executed in Lon-· don· and Lancajhire, though it remained unexcuted in all other parts. However the prefbyterian mini·fters had their voluntary aifociations for church affairs in mofi: counties, though without any a u.thor~t.ative jurif– dic:tion. Scots behaviTo return to the king, who marched with the]cots army from NewarTt· ~ur 10 1:; to Newcqjtle, where he refided about eight months, being treated with .. ~;t:: ew- forne refpec:t, though not with all the duty of fubjec:ts to a fovereign. The firft ferf!lon that was preached before him gave hopes, that they would be mediators between him and the parliament; it was from 2 Sam. :rix~ 4 1 , 4,2, 43· And behold all the mm qf Ifrael came to the king, and fa id
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