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THOUGHTS ON THE ATONEMENT. 11.
The Westminster Assembly and the
“Federal” Scheme.
When it is remembered that the first sys
tematic exposition of the “Federal Headship
theory, was published by Cocceius, in 1648,
while the Westminster Assembly met in 1643,
an 4 dissolved 1649, it may be thought strange
that the doctrinal forms of the Westminster
Standards are so thoroughly Cocceian. At all
events, the adoption of (what was then) a theologi
cal novelty—Coceeianism—is a curious and effec
tive illustration of the readiness of the Assembly
to throw itself into the prevailing current of the
ological opinion. ' Circumstances have so associa
ted their names in recent times,'with all that is
conservative and cautious, that it is a surprise to
fend them embodying in -their work the very la
test results of theological speculation,; res,ults : that
were denounced as heresy by the orthodox and
conservative Calvinists 6f Holland-, Who boasted
that they were “ Traditionarians,” —who
that “it is for us' to light-our candles at those'
great lights Reformers and
the Synod off Port,— who announced- “
caught up the last voices and words Fa
thers, of whom ,we are now glad to calf ourselves
eojjo." . ,;/*
,\Ve might, in passing, refor4o, other poigte ( in
.which the; Westminster 4aSemJ>lj n eyinqedj.their
independence of theological .; traditipn. They
united with 1 the Couficft 'of Trent; and against'
Lutlier and almost all the'"other theologians: of
the j .declaring,, ( th,at
(fiducid) is not of.(the ,eßsenqe- of
They declared, as .against the High Calvinists and
Antinomians. of their dAy, that jnstificatiop is'
not an eternal ppinitfo which, with ( Otliers
of a like liberal tendency, lost Prof.
1 Zwolle, in Holland, his' professorial elixir, They .
leftthe contemporary bugbear " of ; the High l Cal
vinists. of Geheva—the indefinite atbnefoent the
ory of Paraeus—uncondemned. ih . ! this they
sided with the liberal .Reformed ;Church of
France, which, in several National Synods, le- ,
1 fused to; expel 'thbse "who 1 held ’ his 1 Gdetrilie,;
though Heidegger, 'and the bthier.' wolMied'of'
Geneva, were preparfog to.pqndbfoh—.equal
sapience—rthose %bh.o thought, that the, Hebrew.
‘ Voioel Points were .not inspired, and ‘{those.whp
bblieved that Christ died r for all men.* ; . :
Aud , whateyeq the defeats' ‘'of r the “ Jfedef al-
System,” we .ijelievo that they didAight'in em
, bodying if in the as the best forth that
eoutom.porary Calyjnistjfojtheblogy had embodied-
Itself In. It w«s a form that rbcalihd the Chufch
frona Bch6!asti^ ; oi' disputation to ffbe
grand world-juqtqric W9 S 3j-ed.einj)iipn, ! 'yvljiplQ.
gpye the Church,of' t&ft, day^what :
every pr.cdouiiiiautly doctnoalChurchisdeficiciit
»ter«B^thpugK>®C^?
iu’hfetory. It left room for higher ,'jrmws of
human frecdotn, in its contemplation, ; notr of ab
stract propositions, but o£ ; what j-De Press e.nse
OaUs the world-old struggle"between Divine'
Love apd the free will of man.” lfs jt yery ne|v
. ness,, was a proof that the' Assembly, did not re-1
"ganff theiology, ast Ta and , improgressiyi
Science. 1 . ! A.nd if. anj/ w6uld' v iisp ;> 4^ r W^stmiu ! -
ster -Assembly’s, wofb to , 9h_,qhT
shoulders 7* neitherwe, Crior our. fathers
'were aflfo that £.ss’efo|)y is pot) .to blafoei -
’ Tjiey' went so.'faj Beyond-.the.position of even the
New. (School; oburgh,, ,t feat', they n.ey er 'designed
“ the ’standards ”to be, foaifo ,a .test f pf ministerial
‘standing or of
.not .nnjil that the esqcfod
"into', soich ai )to,st in the Prefoyterian',
Rigid subscription "j# 'a„jghpdern, 'inhovajdo.ji ■of
.which they,knew nothingsfor;-.. . ! !
Every,truthful history is a, "On
the Vanity of Dogmatizing.” Conservatigg|s|em
inaries should, pever tolerate a ”
/within .tfieir walls. Safe, discussions ,of j puints ( of
special interest, a la §hedd, may be allowed,; but
knowledge of a. wider'range may bi;jsg
tion as to the,Divine authority Qff -sqme of those
precious theoretic,details, in defence which the
true dogmatist would “ di.e in the. last dite|i,” —
a dissatisfaction which is, in his eyes,- by. no
means oomgensatqd for by the deeper assurance
which such knowledge. mostly gives as )o the
grand root-truths pf Christian doctrine. ; , ; ,
But dogmatists are sometimes .blind enough to
appeal to history, as, for instance, tp talk of a
.symbol “in yts.(Reformed or Calyinistie sense.”
“ The Reformed or Calvinistic sense,” we are
told, forbids our rejection of an explanatory
gloss, which Calvin and the Rrfgr.mers never heard
of, which; is not embodied in a single Confession
of the Reformed, f C(iurch, except the one under
discussion; which the most -consistent and thor
ough-going'Calvinists of the comparatively recent
date at which it originated—the Prineetonians of
the seventeenth centuryffi-denounced as apostacy
from the teachings of the Reformers, of Bprt, and
of Calvin,—which was only tolerated after a long
and bitter struggle, at the, intercession of, the Re
formed Church of Germany. But there are those
who, in our pwn day, unite the spirit of Voctius
to the letter of Cocceius, who retain,of the, latter
only the questionable results of his .Speculations,
Wnd surrender the noble .and yyhojepqine method,
- which gives him his true.;and highest significance
-in the History of Calyinistie (thqology. Their
favorite and fundamental, destruction between the
.Covenant of. works and the Covenant of ■ grace is
as jinkuowu to the Calvinistic writers before Coc
ceius as it is to the Scriptures; their fayorite.de-
the two Covenants, Jewish and Christian;
" *We may ask the’Theological Professor in, Alle
gheny, (1) Did he re-publish the whole of Heideg
ger's Consensus Helvetica ■ for the edification of his
’etiidents, when be' recently reproduced that wortWs
testimony as the voice of the Reformed Chifrch
against the Indefinite Atonement theory? (2j Why
did he, in his “Outlines of Theology,” skipoverthe
Westminster Confession’s statement about Eternal
J testification 7
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1868.
is as flatly contradicted by Calvin as by Paul;
their favorite conception of Adam, as “a public
person,” a divinely constituted legal and respon
sible representative of the race, is one which
finds much less countenance in the earlier sym
bols of t|Mji|s|brmed Church than in the wri
tings of those American theologians who have
been thought most hostile to it.
“ The Reformed or Calvinistic system 1”
“ I thank thee, Jew, for teaching methat word !”
That, indeed, is a spell to conjure by. Those
words raise us above philosophic interpretations,
and schools. Is Geneva against ;us? .Then'
Saumur has eqnal rights in the eye of_history.
Does Westminster seem to frown upon ns?
Then Dordrecht and Heidelberg are with us. 1
Are Heidegger and Cocceius, TurretiO and WiL
sius in a Prineetonian alliance’ That would have
startled themselves—marshalled against our lib
erties?, Tjien even ..conservative Voetius .no
less than Parasus, Placams and Cgmeron. shall
throw over us the aegis of their authority. . We
warn all dogmatists to beware of history.
ofiaiai,®YtSioir.
While both the Old and New School branches ,
of the Prefehyterian DliurjcW are.ioolying .fprjvsfd
with eager in|erest to the, rpsult of the confer-"
respeqtive prprtiyteries and (general -Assemblies'
on He-union, and .while it,is,by no means impro
,babl,e fiat it may. require years of agitation, and
negotiation to accomplish the view. and
that then it may he consummated .biy a jinipn.of 1
all Pyeshyterial bodies apd oil 9
a basis.morp liberal, than.that, now .contemplated''
(by a portion at .legst),.wpjild for
bpth .bodies, to immediate attention
poliey of Ooncerte’d 1 action in'the'de'p'arttnbnra and
fields where 'they may for many yesifs labor side
by.side?-' Such;h plan may not present.io: sOh-
ancl, imposing , a moral, spectacle.as that ; of
.organic union, but it may yet, secure most .of,, the '
practical benefits of such* a union. If we have'
made' so much' progress iii agreeing to a’gree
’ —th -Mseia hdmely proverb—wh'bught certainly.
W ‘‘ agree to;disagree'.'.’ - -noi-v •
, .Some, who j,attended pur General Assembly,
which met at St. Louis, reported thpt the whole
West was in , favor of fe-union; pha principally
because of r their experience of the' mischiefs off
the competition of <thb - twp ’bodies on the game,
ground-..; As to how-far; thislwastefnl. policy may
have been.earriedinthe.past, or. what is the-ex
tent of it at present, we do not profess tQ -any,di
rect knowledge. Dpt j udging from the impres
si'on's"6f soiiie observers if miiBt," ! be ! ’cbh^idbrable.-
Withinthe life-time of the-present geriefatibn
thousands of Presbyterian;-churches will-mo;
doubt be planted,,and it; Sfte.ms , to us that too
much cannot be, attaohed. jto the prin
ciples according to .which our future operations.in'
£Ha6 region shall Be carried on." We wouldTayit
down as a fundamental principle,’that tlie promul-.
gation-of- the -distin efive doctrines - ofi FPresbyte
.rianism is,.off greater- (importance,,-than (,the,,ad
vahcemeiit of any branch of that family where
the former must be.sacrificed to,, the latter."' A
N.-Si ’Presbyterian' ought to rejoice more over
tberf planting of 106 ’ ehurdhes ! whereof>'7s arbj
Oir- St-vand 25 N-i-Sy/ithen- over 75-'churches,
whereof 25 ,are,.o- S*\and-5Q N-;P r 0
rejoice also in the success of- nqn-presbyt.erial,
and thank G,od that.they areplanting the.
-institutions'bf the- Gospel-in tHfe places,
as 'sincere believers in the soundhes&an'd efficiency
of our own-peculiar views/ we- ought to carry' on
qur so as to ..secure, the greatest num
ber of churches of bur own generic order. ; -1 1
In the future, joint, committees appointed hy
'the 4iir6' ! bbdieB ! duglif on a division of
•territory ;ifi (their; Home MihSiofi -Work ’Wh'drevSer;
itj ip , possible/each r bb,dy should-Fhayei-sufiicieht
territory in each field, unmolested, tp fppn,p,pres-'.
bytery in the beginning, ghich presbytery could,
afterwards ,b,e ,dividedj;up, ,when-.the i cpußti;y bej
, came more thickly settled. rj If it were possible
‘in' eaeii' case to secujre' a qjifficienf extent ol
‘a syn'od; 'so‘‘mhch' the'he’ttef.Tf'tHqstate
•off lowa v-were divided geographiealiy ihto ; two
-compact Byniod3ilone' Qi'S( and7the other N.iS.yit
rWoiild be.better
terianism, .than to. have, the .twp, cover, the sarne
general ln refefeu.el" to* presbyter ids,
-it were : better , i to have tfife n wholei 'divided
intoi alternate districts; sitfdwiched.tbgetHerF asht
.were, ,than to have single churches soaattei-ed far
jrpm of theiq,;ei^ter:j,chnrjeli^. 3 . f ln
regard" to the v Territories,'now; 1 uppcmipiejl;
We do'not 'seb any objectioU to ah agreement
■ whereby 1 each Could have-exclusive possessidm 'of
a-whole.one as far as the hction of the commit
tee is concerned, only thatrregard;be,p,aidto,thwif
extent.and imp.ortance,.and J tp thWbtC&thc-tea,<|K
is'prepared in' 'meantime to .bring/into the
whole field; They‘ihight east lots b'etween
radp and Nevada', and who .would' Cafe? 11 -’ 11 '' “di)
' According to this principle there might!.'bed
plan for an exchange of churches,-whereby,the
presbyteries on each side might be made more
compact and their boundaries more regular. In
deed we do not see why some chabgeS of this
sort might'not be made in the’East, (Such
churches of course .consenting), though owing (to
the more j intense deßominational feelingj there
would be more impediments. In the W.est .where
the ministers and members are nearly all young,
the memory of the division has been Mmost for
gotten.
The economy of such.a policy is a great recom
mendation to it. To put two;, Presbyterian mis
sionaries info the same newly planted town to toil
side by side, in 1 feeble churches, for fiye n ten or
more years, till they become' s‘elf-supporti'ng, is do
waste the funds in the treasury'of the Lord; in
the interest of selfish denominationalism.'. 'lt
wastes the Church Erection, Fund, Missionary
Fund, Publication Ft;nd, and, must precious of all,
the self-denial of noble men. One man could take
the care of both united better than either of the
two could take care of the half. At the sathe
time, it would muclTsbonef come to the point of
self-support. More than that; by the division, the,
Presbyterial element is, crippled in the race with
other denominations. ' It is not so much which
church is founded first, as which chiireh becomes
strong and flourishing first. The first Presbyte
rian effort in a growing town should be ih' one
church, and no second should be formed till that
is large enough to send out a respectable colony
and still remain self sustaining or nearly so. For
obvious reasons it would' be better if that colony
could beof the same order as thetoother chufch.
The Churches in the East, who beaf the burden
of'those'Homfe Mission have a right
that economy be studied in the direction
of tfihm;- - ' '
The plan of division of territory would allow
in some-cases the respective bodies to occupy new
fields, by sending men in squads instead of sin
gly. In a region where a dozen in or more of new
churches are to be planted in a few years, let not
fewer thdn be sent at obellime, and as many
more a r s it is practicable. The men will be mneh
more ready to go, as for instance if seleeted from
one class just graduated and -sent to Nevada or'
Idaho.or Nebraska.. They could; help each,other,
coul.d meet as neighbors, could contribute to one
another’s < mental and -spiritual culture, and ar
range foPjithe occupation of new fields.' How
much is often lost by the disconragemeht of min
isterial where a.luan has no neighbor
within 50 or 100 (miles and no means of reaching,
them at. that?-- At thcrilast General Afesembly r
one rnan spoke of ihiinself as. the i-only minister
of our body in Colorado. The moral effect of
Auch straggling ( advances iis (injurious'-to the re--
iputation offOui Ghurch- among the pebple. Where
a n umber F off churches' are (planted, at -the -same
time, it, gives the: people::a: strong s impression Of
th'efigrowith and- spiritnality and energy'of that
: body; rWe cannot (affoid itto- < disregaf dothe -value
of such prepossessions'.' The fame ofsuecessi-onthis
plan will be worth -more in unoccupied fields thiih
the .off an .isolated feeble church or scl
eral off them Coinpb’tibg on 'fMe aaml' ground.
■;q I r •’ ••;■ -; : TU ii ANC. ! 4 '
J('. To foxof.-;:;
FROM OUE TRAVELLING COBBESBONDENT'
,c IN THE WEST, ~ , ;
,:::H -:t i CINCINNATI, ;T.Tr'V-,-1868.
, 1 .iMni-jBDiTQBsf The jeommeroiali *nd the .archi
tectural aspects of Cincinnati are not the;-only
.ones', in whiohriGincinnatSi is an • interestingrcity.-'
'The city which rba^es-its; .prosperity on Fdomestib
:hud local industryywhieh'seeksifoadvarieement in"
(becoming a;local centre-and 'developing lncal re
•sonrees, may: not-'-be -widely and! persistently
- puffed,; hor-.iibtoridu3- through . its extravagance, •
but it.is sure to make its influence T4lt . in many
ways... Gificinaati-iis (another instanceAof thb
(tendency pjf manufacturing. n cities; to adopt-prin
ciples favorable, to .^rep-itradp,.stopt& -
mere material ends as its commo -(
dities j' &c'. / Pi'otectiori'ahd ' manufactures can
'only find"logical st'aßding -f ground on the"'fact
that men/and'hot things/are the ultimate ends of
Ipiyil; goVefnitoent. A varied industry. ;\»hic.hj will •
,afford (types of human; character -free
scope for harmonious development is ; the great
erid that' Protection 'aims’at’And’ wßieh' alone
Woilld- Cbihpfensate' for' all ite disadvantageS: r And
j ust here' isitthat slavery rand tree -trade stand l
i,on ; Slavery; bkepHigh Cal vin 1 -
ism, treats. so.mq.men.as,.lhißgs ,qpf.as persons, as
.mean's (tefan,iend,j m,.theinselves t ;. Dree
.'TradgFl^pgfhaps^
aboye'nj.en, as. fti.(lifp,a'nd policy.•, ,jThe.Tjfo-
ipflUpnce • qpinipii is ‘
Re
publican England,,Eepppyly.apm and! Opio,
and/jin'iparticular in,the, mt)ea *of. Philajdqlpliia
'and'G'iueinnati. (That loc.aj and.,accidental,influ
ences maypfpdnce anpjnali^ 1 and,
9ep,tibn|,.to„the jple, ps .in .Cjiiqagci;; is .indeed
the lbng run,ijiholas,goojd.,.
„ fut ure,. of, ,C ng ti,. wii 1 j Be, in,
higher, branches of.iiome production, it is. hard./o
pay.,: But ithere, is somq/indicatiop, that it, will,
jnot .be.hehi'nfl injth.epefi/eppects., , ,tfle. pa|-
' tiye 'place, of; the - greatest Anieqi.can,; scuiptorTr
j Mirap ,Pbwprs-^-#hp lJ )vii.ep. .quite .youqg, "deyelLi
hi_s genius fop, jjhe.pia§t jc, arts,, by/designing ;
Wax figures,’for.,a; Cincinnatj.Aftemusi tYard.:. Tp
jsn©h a .point. o^, perfoejifop7r7.it is said—didfoO
ar£,,tflat one,.of his,figures shfi
Dc.kefo ~nnd ..adnaission 'fees at pf.thq
. sjjp.w' foe a,whole evening in the thd
jvithpuhlbeing.. fleteptod; jjttoWjit.
.made change ip.nof stated.... Herg,to.OiitfeiJ*iidqly ;
,knpwn poetesses,;.iAlice anfi Fhoeße Carey, re
side j, their father,. Gen.. S-: F- Gary, being the
member of Congress, from, 'this. 3 districf. i Here
,Jjiarcus K Conwoy (Was pasjtoy ot’ a/ Unitagian-
Church—until. he..went ; where he
.holds .thq, semp (p.ositiouj.and
,plages,pf Prazeij pthgr.fligfl.
class English^nqgazines. ; . ,Thos r D CCB.Cnan Read,
is’anptfler Cifioinnaifoo,.. fo.;. ... ;; i •
f,,j T.he,eY,i4enpes. l o.f good taste to nppremafe, the
..beautiful,.and,of to, spend
its,jacquisitipn,,are abjUpdapfiion iside j; but
inojyhere.fo, such'ja;degree,,as ( in thp (sujjpqhs-rT
(Cliftonj, AValnut*: Hills,..'.Auburn . and Spiißfl
TJiesqJie around, ,the ; city to' the north,
all but jthey.fost, being situated on,t he .blpfoi, whiqh
“,rqll”, i; geqtly jfor ; miles tl ,as if" the . ,of
some great earthen sea had suddenly ceased their
i fiHsfoo’for.gveiy i ,.Clifton most mag-
the. residences surpass anything that
I have seen iu America,, Stotply,,edifices: that
recall the grap''d|COiiutry.s j ea.tB',of : the - aristocra'cy
of t.he-fold IVorld/furnished within and without
.almost ’ regardless plaoed ,oiisites- that
.command a.wide.view pf the .surro.upding .coup
;try and encir,cled;with grounds in wbieh a'll : that
art and money can,-dp,has ib.een;; done .to secure
beauty and grace —such is Clifton. lt ; seemed
-like ; a' fairy Uod. The ,grandest v ,residence, that
of Mr. Prebasco, is a palace in.itself.
Spring Grove isithe-city of the 'dead/and Cin
cincinnatians enjoy nothing' more than’Ho defy
’comparison between their necropolis ‘ andbthat of
other cities. .' Its situation is'not asfine as that of
Laurel Hill, hilt art has' done l far "more for it.
’Thh dulliuriiformity of arehitectural style,’wbScfl
we carry Oven into our cemeteries, is no't to. be
seen liere; and the abundant variety of forni’ arid
design indica’te'lhat the lividg did not leave to
mere artisans/ignoraHt of everything but a- few
conventional rules/the work of embodying in
stone their loving regrets for the’ departed.
Nearly opposite the entrance l and in; the most
conspicuous position are buried the Union sol,
liers who died in the 1 hospitals of the city'during
the war, and a bronze sentinel of much more
than; life-size, marks the spot and 1 from his pe
destalkeeps unceasing watch above their
graves. "One Cincinnati fashion, observable 1 in
Spring Grove, I do not like: the choice of other
than white and especially of a variegated reddish
brown marble, as the material for monuments.
As Hegel points out, the growth of sculpture is
marked as much by the choice of nobler materials
as by'the increased beauty of form; only the
nation -that wrought in Parian marble could pro
duce the Phidian Zeus.
The people of Cincinnati are not as “religious
ly inclined” as those of some less beautiful cities.
A much smaller percentage of them attend
Church than in most American cities, but if
must be remembered that one-third of the popu
lation are Germans. lam told, whether correct
ly ; or not, that the new Reformed Presbyterian
church on Plum street, whose smallness I re
marked last October, will accommodate the en
tire congregationof any of the .Presbyterian
churches, of the city.,. It is mow pearly finished,
and will seat five hundred people,. Amqng the
causes which alienate the people’from the 'chur
ches here is, the prevailing choral character of
the.mus'oin all;-bat the Methodist; cjbtureb,es.-
One Presbyterian, arguing in a recent convention
for Presbyterian Reunion, assured his Psalm
sjDging brethren that there ;was. no danger of
Re-union leading to hymn-singing'in Cincinnati,
as the choirs would not let them get’iha wor.d ■
’edgewise. a: ONTHEjWING. .!
• INTERESTING LITERARY RELIC!.; ;d
' Dear Bbo; : Meaßs : I have'in. my possession
a family and historical relic, a brief description
bf‘Whichm&y : intefest: your readers:- ! TOf* : tihis
lefiv6 tojudge.ii si H-:;I •{ .! i
It is" a voluihe “fp¥ititedby B.’Franklin,
a short thickibook of nearly/550. pages] in; clear'
-type,’and very.ifine-preservation', saveth’eloss of'
a few pages and a profusion of the 'thumb-marks
1 6 f-five gfenefafcioifs. It has beenfiri > the;; family,
’probtiblyfrW' the date 'df' , its publication. i'dts
;la4t’ re-biriding was-evideatlyibe'fbre fhe op’dnirig'qf
the'present century.' *' t;; ’ .-i -1;- s ~ ! ' ’
'T ! t eofitains:—l; The Cbnfession'of Faith,
with the introduo.tory repistle to the- reader, espe-,
pially,;Heads pf families.- ,
• 11. The Larger Catechism yith, the Sbripture
proofs in Full.= '
■ ! -lll:’The 'Shorter Catechiini* with' Scripture
prCdfsi' r ' ' .0 •
: 'IV.' .The Sum !ofiSaving Knowledge, with: Hie;
practical.use thereof. . r
V-r The Coniesaion of Faith of the Kirk, of
,ScotlanjL .or The (National Covenant.' '
'VI. ! The J Sele’thh liekg f ue arid Covenant'. o
VII. A Solemn r Acknowledgement of Public
ains,'and an engagement to duties.;j if 1
:.VHI.. !£he Directory for Public Worship.
IX, The Form of Church Government. . J
' ‘ X!' The Dirbetbfy for Family‘Worship. ::
XI. 1 of Contents. •
"PrObably but'fdw-- copies Of this old book; .as 1
printed by* Franklin-.are. nowj;in, existence,The
blank leaves of my own .copy, haye .been used, by;
members of the family as a place .to record’ their
namfes;, Thd'“first name bri record’ is Philip
. Robin son','who 1 in thel'n'dian' wars' of’-iiore 'thah
aeentjiry ago,, had a fort on at the. fiiot !
of the Kittatinny a few~.mjles.from the.tjiugqpe--
..hanna.;, .. J.,, , .. ; (
' ljis eldest.,son makes the' following record: .
“I Sam Bbhinson of the township of Hinover
and County of Lancaster-,»and the Province of
Pennsylvania,, do,approve, of .and consent to the'
chief of the subfetaftce of- thisOohfession. Ap
parently and! notj.in dark-sayings as it is set forth
in Scripture. ‘1766..
jlfhe, third,, (|,eqrge Robinson, brother of,.Satn,
was tiie owner of ' f Robinson’s Fort in Sherman’s'
Valley, ’’’one’’ 'of ‘h'is‘ 1 majesty’s ‘ Justices' -of the l
'Pdace, and;aßuling Elder of theGhurch.;-
it i The ...fourth, on . record is Jonathan,'-3L>bihSon,
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