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Mrs Tabitha, attended by Humphry Clinker, was introduced to one of their conventicles, where they both received much edification; and she has had the good fortune to come acquainted with a pious Christian, called Mr Moffat, who is very powerful in prayer, and often assists her in private exercises of devotion.

We permit them therefore freely to profess their private opinions, and to assemble in their conventicles without fear or molestation, provided always that they preserve a due respect to the established laws and government.

We authorize the followers of this doctrine to assume the title of Catholic Christians; and as we judge, that all others are extravagant madmen, we brand them with the infamous name of Heretics; and declare that their conventicles shall no longer usurp the respectable appellation of churches.

The rigorous prohibition of conventicles was carefully extended to every possible circumstance, in which the heretics could assemble with the intention of worshipping God and Christ according to the dictates of their conscience.

As to the churches, I can't say what sort of people attend them, as neither I or any of my acquaintance ever go there; but, in the way of curiosity and pleasure, we sometimes visit the methodist conventicles; and there thro' the whole auditory there obtains so visible a distraction, that we have always considered those deluded people [Page 564] as much more the objects of compassion than contempt.

We give information connected with monasteries, churches, and conventicles, with equal impartiality; and if this is found otherwise than useful or amusing, it is the fault of those who convert facts into sentiments.

At a period intermediate between these and the present times, they were the haunt of the persecuted Covenanters, and often resounded with the voice of psalms raised at conventicles.

From small beginnings these field assemblies-or conventicles-were to grow into major problems of public order for the government.

From small beginnings these field assemblies-or conventicles-were to grow into major problems of public order.

Moreover parliament was so far from pressing disendowment that on the petition of the British House of Commons it passed a savage act against the heresies commonly called Lollardry which aimed at the destruction of the king and all temporal estates, making Lollards felons and ordering every justice of the peace to hunt down their schools, conventicles, congregations and confederacies.


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