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 disavowal of the purpose―the “objectionable if taken irrelatively,” was all that could be obtained. I then stated that perhaps I had better leave and ask for Raleigh St. Mr. Rhind said that very great good had been done, that I ought to be uncommonly thankful, and urged me not to press any further disavowal then, least it should produce a rupture with Mr. Newton, but wait and see. I said it was a sorrowful position to be in, but it was all that I was then doing, and acquiesed in the wish, and I continued to minister on the general topics of the grace of the Lord Jesus.

But I must now relate what my journey to Somersetshire, further opened to me. I went there quite unconscious of it all, to evangelize where none of these questions were. These circumstances were important as to Plymouth, as unfolding the working of the plan there. As at Plymouth they treated what wonderfully blessed new light they had got as to their Church position, so here it was taught that, as the brethren had first learnt brotherly unity and fellowship, now they had been, as fresh instruction, led to Church order. This Church order was the authority of the teachers, who were exclusively to judge of, and recognize or the contrary, others as teachers. This was founded on