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Tom Webster, Godly Clergy in Early Stuart England: the Caroline Puritan movement, c. 1620 - 1643, p. 44: Quote:
Thomas Cartwright had, after all, defined the business of a conference in his Second Admonition, of 1573, drawing on Scottish and continental practice, but naturally rooting the practice in Scripture:
A conference I call the meeting of some certain ministers and other brethren...at some certain place as it was at Corinth...to confer and exercise themselves in prophesying or in interpreting the scriptures...At which conferences...any of the brethren are to be at the order of the whole, to be employed upon some affaires of the Church...The demeanors also of the ministers may be examined and rebuked.
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