Transcribed from the 1837 Jackson and Walford edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
BRIEF RECORDS
OF THE
INDEPENDENT CHURCH,
AT
BECCLES, SUFFOLK;
INCLUDING BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF ITS MINISTERS, AND
SOME ACCOUNT OF THE RISE OF NONCONFORMITY
IN THE EAST ANGLIAN COUNTIES.
BY
SAMUEL WILTON RIX.
LONDON:
JACKSON AND WALFORD, 18, ST. PAUL’S CHURCHYARD.
M DCCC XXXVII.
“The churches in those early times were entirely Independent; none of them subject to any foreign jurisdiction, but each one governed by its own rulers and its own laws.”
Mosheim, Cent. I.
“Indeed this way of examining all things by the Word . . . is a course I would admonish all to beware of who would avoid the danger of being made Independents.”
Owen on Schism.
WILLIAM LENNY, PRINTER, BECCLES.