[236] The Savoy Declaration is printed in Hanbury’s Memorials. Most of the passages I have given are abridged.
[237] Mather remarks, “There is no Congregational man, but he reports to the Church something of what the person desiring communion with them has related to him, which the Presbyterian does not, only declares his own satisfaction, and giveth the brethren a liberty to object against the conversation of the admittendi.”—Magnalia, ii. 61. Such reports may be found in the Choice Experience of Mrs. Rebecca Combe, and Mrs. Gertrude Clarkson, printed in An Abstract of the Gracious Dealings of God, &c., by Samuel James.
[238] Life of Heywood, 238.
[239] Works, xxi. 547.
[240] Works, v. 46.
[241] Works, xi. 452.
[242] Some very high views and strong expressions may be found in Jacomb’s Dedication, 136.
[243] Baillie’s Letters and Journals. Gould’s Introduction to the Report of St. Mary’s Norwich Chapel Case cxiv. et seq.
[244] I refer to what Crosby says of Mr. Spilsbury’s Church (i. 148; iii. 41). A number seceded from Mr. Jessy’s Church in 1638, 1641, and 1643, and became Baptists before he did.—Crosby, i. 310.
[245] Gould, xxviii.