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 the Keepers of the said Conventicles or private  having become more numerous and bold, the  Assembly at Aberdeen in the Year 1640 took  Matter into Consideration; and that Mr. Dickson  Mr. Rutherford pleaded vehemently for the said, till Mr. Guthrie (that is, the Bishop himself) took the Paper out of his Pocket, which had been  by Mr. Henderson and Mr, Dickson in all their : And then, says the Bishop, Mr. Dickson was ; whereupon the Act past unanimously against  Meetings.

every Body may see that the above Account given the Bishop is both false and inconsistent; there was  such Act as he reports past at the Assembly at  1640. No Body that know the Characters of Rutherford and Dickson will believe that they  the Brownistical Way, or that they  would  in an Assembly a Conclusion signed with their own : It is plain that the perfidious Prelate has laid  whole Story with a Design to defame these excellent  worthy Men; and it is likewise plain that there  no such Meeting in Henderson's Chamber, concluded an Article of our Directory, which had not a Being  1647, that is, seven Years thereafter: Therefore,  our Author had not a Design to impose upon the  when he cites Guthrie's Memoirs, he has quoted  without any Manner of Judgment or Consideration.

Our Author tells us, He is far from condemning Meetings for Prayer and Conference; he owns,  Fellowship meetings, if rightly managed, are : But in the mean Time he insists only upon the  of them; he never tells us wherein they are. He gives us a Quotation from Mr. Durham Scandal, Part 3. Chap. 15. and we have only the Half of. what Mr. Durham says upon Fellowship-, namely, what he says upon the Abuse of ; but what is said by that great Man upon the