RELATING TO THE

INDEPENDENTS,

OR

CONGREGATIONALISTS:

FROM THEIR RISE

TO THE RESTORATION OF THE MONARCHY,

A. D. M DC LX.

BY BENJAMIN HANBURY.

VOLUME II.

"FROM THIS HISTORICAL RELATION OF OUR PRACTICES, THERE MAY A TRUE
ESTIMATE BE TAKEN OF OUR OPINIONS IN DIFFERENCE; WHICH BEING INSTANCED IN,
AND SET OUT BY PRACTICES, IS THE MOST REAL AND LEAST COLLUSIVE WAY, AND
CARRIES ITS OWN EVIDENCE WITH IT."

APOLOGETICAL NARRATION, 1643.

LONDON;

PRINTED FOR

THE CONGREGATIONAL UNION OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

FISHER, SON, & CO., NEWGATE STREET.

AND JACKSON AND WALFORD, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD.

1841.

LONDON: FISHER, SON, AND CO., PRINTERS

ANNOUNCEMENT.

FROM the success that has attended diligent research, the documentary matters for the completion of these Memorials have accumulated beyond expectation.

The increased historic value and interest thus acquired, relates more especially to the period in which the practical application of the principles of Congregationalists was being tested in the territory of New England; and while the principles themselves were undergoing those sifting discussions for which the debates of the great Assembly of Divines at Westminster are peculiarly distinguished.

In order, therefore, to the furnishing an adequate amount of the indispensable records of those affairs, it has been decided, with the entire concurrence of the