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Early history of the Church at Lower Dublin, . . . 11
the Church at Piscatqua, . . . 13
the Church at Middletown, . . . 13
the Church at Cohansie, . . . 14
the Church at the Welsh Tract, . . . 15
the Church at the Great Valley, . . . 16
the Church at Cape May, . . . 16
the Church at Hopewell, . . . 17
the Church near Brandywine, . . . 18
the Church at Montgomery, . . . 19
the Church at Bethlehem, . . . 20
the Church at Southampton, . . . 20
the Church at Cranberry, . . . 21
the Church at Philadelphia, . . . 21
the Church at Morristown, . . . 22
the Church at Scotch Plains, . . . 22
the Church at Rocksberry, . . . 23
the Church at Oyster Bay, . . . 23
the Church at Tulpehokin, . . . 23
First meeting of the Association, 1707, . . . 25
Regulations for its government, . . . 25
Arrival of Ministers in 1710, . . . 25
Meeting of 1712, . . . 26
Improper conduct of Thomas Selby, . . . 27
Attention to the subject of the Ministry, 1722 . . . 27
Query from Brandywine, and regulations on the Ministry, in 1723, . . . 27
Queries on the Fourth Commandment on marriage, and on Church officers, 1724, . . . 27
Proceedings of 1726 — Query on divisions, . . . 28
Meeting of 1727 — Query on marriage, . . . 28
Meeting of 1728 — Query on Ruling Elders and on dismissions, . . . 29
Meeting of 1729 — first Circular Letter on Christian Duties — Query on laying on of hands, . . . 29
Meeting of 1730 — Query on Seventh-day Baptists — on spending the Sabbath, and general meetings, . . . 31
Meeting of 1731 — Circular Letter on the State of Religion — Meeting house at Philadelphia, . . . 31
Meeting of 1732 — Query on Baptism — Great want of Ministers, . . . 33
Meeting of 1733 — Circular Letter — Prayer for an increase of Ministers, . . . 33
Meeting of 1734 — Circular Letter — Christian duties — Queries on Ministers of other denominations, on the proper conduct of meetings, and on worshiping with other bodies of Christians — Improper conduct of W. Davis, . . . 34
Meeting of 1735 — Circular Letter — State of Religion — Queries on contentious members, and on members uniting with distant Churches, . . . 36
Meeting of 1736 — Visitors appointed to Montgomery, . . . 38
Meeting of 1737 — Character of Letter, . . . 38
Meeting of 1738 — Circular Letter — Exhortation to Christian Duties — Query on laying on of hands — Supply of Catechisms, . . . 39
Meeting of 1739 — Circular Letter on Christian Duties — Queries on absence from communion, and on changes of the Association, . . . 40
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Meeting of 1740 — Circular Letter — Christian exhortations — Queries on Baptism and Church fellowship, . . . 42
Meeting of 1741 — Circular Letter — Christian duties — Queries on Church duties, . . . 44
Meeting of 1742 — Circular Letter — State of the Churches — Reprinting Confession of Faith, . . . 46
Meeting of 1743 — Circular Letter on the State of Religion — Differences at Montgomery — Opposition to error — Confession of Faith, . . . 47
Meeting of 1744 — Query on Ordination — Visitors sent to Montgomery, . . . 49
Meeting of 1745 — Proceedings, . . . 49
Meeting of 1746 — Circular Letter on Christian Duties — Queries on preaching before ordination — on Ruling Elders — on women voting in the Church — on the communion of Churches, and on the character of members of the Association — Collection of Statistics, . . . 49
Meeting of 1747 — Circular Letter on Christian Duties — Query on preaching and communion — other proceedings, . . . 55
Meeting of 1748 — Circular Letter — Christian Exhortation — Queries on God's foreknowledge of evil — Censure of erroneous teachers, and on communion with polygamists, . . . 57
Meeting of 1749 — Circular Letter on the Duties of Christians — Queries on party-spirit in Churches, and on baptism by an unordained Minister — Essay on the Power and Duty of an Association, by Rev. Benjamin Griffith, . . . 59
Meeting of 1750 — Circular Letter on Christian Exhortation — Query on Church censure — Association fund, . . . 64
Meeting of 1751 — Circular Letter on Christian Duties, . . . 66
Meeting of 1752 — Circular Letter — State of the Churches — Query on the denial of the doctrine of Election, &c., . . . 67
Meeting of 1753 — Circular Letter on Exhortation to Duties — Queries on the Assurance of Faith, and on Seventh-day Baptists, . . . 70
Meeting of 1754 — Circular Letter on Christian Duties — Day of humiliation and prayer, . . . 70
Meeting of 1755 — Circular Letter on Christian Exhortation — other proceedings, . . . 71
Meeting of 1756 — Circular Letter on Christian Duties — Query on marriage — Establishment of Grammar School — other proceedings, . . . 73
Meeting of 1757 — Circular Letter on the State of the Churches — other proceedings, . . . 76
Meeting of 1758 — Circular Letter — Exhortation to Christian Duties — Quarterly fasts — other proceedings, . . . 76
Meeting of 1759 — Circular Letter on Christian Duties — other proceedings, . . . 78
Meeting of 1760 — Circular Letter on Christian Duties and Privileges — other proceedings, . . . 79
Meeting of 1761 — Memorial from Dividing Creek — Queries on the Scriptures and Holy Spirit, and on God's pre-ordination — Pastoral Address by Rev. P. P. Vanhorne — Letter to Board in London — Statistics of the Churches, . . . 81
Meeting of 1762 — Proceedings — Pastoral Address, by Rev. S. Jones, A. B. — Statistics, . . . 86
Meeting of 1763 — Proceedings — Queries on the examination of candidates for baptism, and public excommunications — Pastoral Address, by Rev. Isaac Stelle — Statistics, . . . 89
Meeting of 1764 — Proceedings — Charter given to Rhode Island College — Pastoral Letter on Original State of the Churches — Statistics, . . . 91
Meeting of 1765 — Proceedings — Query on Baptism — Pastoral Address, by Rev. John Sutton — Statistics, . . . 94
Meeting of 1766 — Proceedings — Pastoral Address, by Rev. Abel Griffiths — Statistics, . . . 98
Meeting of 1767 — Proceedings — Queries on the right of excommunicated members — on dissatisfaction with a Minister — Marrying a first wife's sister — Pastoral Address, by Rev. Isaac Sutton — Statistics, . . . 100
Meeting of 1768 — Proceedings — Query on Baptism by an unordained Minister — Pastoral Address, by Rev. Isaac Stelle — Statistics, . . . 104
Meeting of 1769 — Proceedings — Rhode Island College — Query on family worship — Pastoral Address, by Rev. Abel Griffiths — Statistics, . . . 107
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Meeting of 1770 — Proceedings — Pastoral Address by Rev. I. Stelle — Letters from New England — Statistics, . . . 113
Meeting of 1771 — Proceedings — Queries on members of disbanded Churches — Washing the Saint's feet — Pastoral Address, by Rev. Messrs. Griffiths, Blackwell and Vanhorne — Statistics, . . . 118
Meeting of 1772 — Proceedings — Ordination of Rev. I. Skillman — Pastoral Address — Statistics, . . . 123
Meeting of 1773 — Proceedings — Washing the Saint's feet — Pastoral Letter, by Messrs. Rogers and Vanhorne — Statistics, . . . 128
Meeting of May, 1774, at New York — Proceedings — Circular Letter on the Holy Scriptures, by the Rev. Abel Morgan — Statistics, . . . 135
Meeting of October, 1774, at Philadelphia — Proceedings — Circular Letter on the Trinity, by Rev. Samuel Jones — Statistics, . . . 140
Meeting of 1775 — Proceedings — Circular Letter, by Rev. Abel Morgan, on the Divine Decrees — Statistics, . . . 150
Meeting of 1776 — Days of humiliation and prayer, on account of the state of the country — other proceedings — Circular Letter on Christian Duties, by Rev. Robert Kelsay — Statistics, . . . 155
Meeting of 1778 — Days of humiliation and prayer, on account of the state of the country — other proceedings — Circular Letter, by Rev. Samuel Jones — Duties of the Times, . . . 159
Meeting of 1779 — Proceedings — Circular Letter on Divine Providence, by Rev. Samuel Jones — and on Fasting and Prayer, by Rev. Abel Morgan, . . . 163
Meeting of 1780 — Proceedings — Circular Letter on the Fall of Man, by Rev. Abel Morgan, . . . 169
Meeting of 1781 — Proceedings — Circular Letter on God's Covenant, by Rev. Samuel Jones — Statistics, . . . 173
Meeting of 1782 — Proceedings — Circular Letter on the Mediation of Christ, by Rev. Oliver Hart — Statistics, . . . 180
Meeting of 1783 — Proceedings — Query on laying hands on the baptized — Circular Letter on the Freedom of the Will, by Rev. Samuel Jones, A. M. — Statistics, . . . 192
Meeting of 1784 — Proceedings — Queries as to Christ being the object of prayer — Duty to a Church which receives unbaptized persons — Circular Letter on Effectual Calling, by Rev. John Gano — Statistics, . . . 199
Meeting of 1785 — Proceedings — Circular Letter on Justification, by Rev. William Rogers — Statistics, . . . 205
Meeting of 1786 — Proceedings — Query on the administration of the Lord's Supper, by others than a Church — Circular Letter on Adoption, by Rev. Thomas Ustick — Statistics, . . . 217
Meeting of 1787 — Proceedings — Queries on a member declining communion — on baptism of a seperated husband and wife, and on regular baptisms — Circular Letter on Sanctification, by Rev. P. P Vanhorne — Statistics, . . . 227
Meeting of 1788 — Proceedings — Queries on the belief of general redemption — Validity of regular baptisms — Circular Letter on Saving Faith, by Rev. David Jones — Statistics, . . . 236
Meeting of 1789 — Proceedings — Circular Letter on Repentance unto Life, by Rev. Burgiss Allison — Statistics, . . . 246
Meeting of 1790 — Proceedings — Query on the preaching of a reclaimed Minister — Circular Letters on the Errors of Universal Salvation, by Rev. Samuel Jones, D. D., and on Good Works, by Rev. Benjamin Foster — Statistics, — View of Baptist Associations in the United States, . . . 254
Meeting of 1791 — Proceedings — Circular Letter on the Perseverance of the Saints, by Rev. William Vanhorne — Statistics, . . . 270
Meeting of 1792 — Proceedings — Queries on marriage with a nephew — on the validity of irregular baptisms — on the words Bishop and Elder — on washing the saints' feet — on testimony of members' wives in disputed cases, and on the jurisdiction of councils — Circular Letter on Assurance, by Rev. Joshua Jones — Statistics, . . . 281
Meeting of 1793 — Proceedings — Circular Letter on Christian Duties, by Rev. Thomas Fleeson — Statistics, . . . 292
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Meeting of 1794 — Proceedings — Queries on alteration of the Catechism — on the reception of dismissed members, and on the evidence of a non-member — Circular Letter on the Law of God, by Rev. Henry Smalley, A. M. — Statistics, . . . 296
Meeting of 1795 — Proceedings — Queries on a day of humiliation and prayer — General concert of prayer — the emigration of members — Reprinting an English Circular Letter — Amendments to the Catechism — Circular Letter on the Gospel, by Rev. Samuel Jones, D. D. — Statistics, . . . 305
Meeting of 1796 — Proceedings — Circular Letter on Fidelity, by Rev. Staughton — Statistics — Deaths, . . . 316
Meeting of 1797 — Proceedings — Circular Letter on Christian Liberty and Liberty of Conscience, by Rev. Thomas Memminger — Statistics — Addenda on Baptist Grammar School, . . . 324
Meeting of 1798 — Proceedings — Circular Letter on Religious Worship and the Sabbath Day, by Rev. David Jones, A. M. — Statistics, . . . 333
Meeting of 1799 — Proceedings — Circular Letter on General Christian Duties, by Rev. Samuel Jones, D. D. — Statistics, . . . 341
Meeting of 1800 — Proceedings — Query on establishing a Missionary Society — Circular Letter on the Divine Origin of the Gospel, by the Rev. W. Staughton — Statistics, . . . 348
Meeting of 1801 — Proceedings — Query on the independence of the Churches — Circular Letter on the Events of the last Century, by Rev. James Ewing — Statistics, . . . 358
Meeting of 1802 — Proceedings — Plan of a Committee — Circular Letter on the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, by Rev. T. B. Montanye — Statistics, . . . 369
Meeting of 1803 — Proceedings — Query on the choice a Moderator — Circular Letter on the Work of the Holy Spirit, by Rev. William White — Statistics, — Deaths, . . . 379
Meeting of 1804 — Proceedings — Query on Committee reporting to the body — Circular Letter on Prayer, by Rev. Burgiss Allison — Statistics — Deaths, . . . 394
Meeting of 1805 — Proceedings — Queries on the baptism of the Holy Ghost — Report of the Secretary — Circular Letter on Brotherly Love, by Rev. Silas Hough — Statistics, . . . 409
Meeting of 1806 — Proceedings — Queries on the Rules of Discipline — on the number of members necessary to form a Church, and on irregular baptisms. — Report of Corresponding Committee — Circular Letter on Christian Missions, by Rev. W. Rogers — Death. — Statistics, . . . 421
Meeting of 1807 — Proceedings — Queries on the revision of the Rules of Discipline — on the distribution of the Library, and on the celebration of marriage by an excommunicated Minister — Circular Letter on the Qualifications of a Gospel Minister, by Rev. W. Staughton — Statistics — Deaths, . . . 437
CENTURY SERMON BY SAMUEL JONES, D. D., . . . 451
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