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Excerpt from Minutes of the Sessions of the Westminster Assembly of Divines While Engaged in Preparing Their Directory for Church Government, Confession of Faith, and Catechisms (November 1644 to March 1649): From Transcripts of the Originals Procured by a Committee of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
Though the Minutes are now collected into three volumes, each volume appears to consist of two or more fascz'culz', which may originally have been separate. On this account, some who have not inspected them have sought to identify them with the fourteen or fifteen vol umes of notes of the Assembly's proceedings which Dr. Thomas Goodwin is reported to have written. But Dr. Goodwin's son, who states that his father did write such notes, states also that they were in octavo while those in Dr. Williams' Library are, as already mentioned, in folio, and cannot in many cases be described as brief. Besides, full accounts of the proceedings, and even of speeches delivered in sessions when we know that Good win was not present, are given in the same hand as the other minutes.
The first volume consists of three The first of these extends from folio I to folio 149, and from session 45 to session 86; the second extends from folio 150 to folio 295, and from session 87 to session 119; the third begins with folio 296, and ends with folio 443, extending from session 155 to 198. The volume accordingly embraces part of the debates on the revision of the English Articles, and the first part of those on Church Government but it has no record of proceedings from Ist July to 3d August, during which interval forty-four sessions must have been held; nor of those from December 20th, 1643, to Pebru ary 15th, 1643 - 4, during which thirty-six sessions were held, and debates of considerable importance carried on.
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