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And therefore, whensoever it cometh to that pass, that one saith, Ecce in deserto, another saith, Ecce in penetralibus; that is, when some men seek Christ, in the conventicles of heretics, and others, in an outward face of a church, that voice had need continually to sound in men's ears, Nolite exire, - Go not out.

In the son, individualist by temperament, once the science of colleges had replaced thoroughly the faith of conventicles, this moral attitude translated itself into a frenzied puritanism of ambition.

He said they had been far too kindly treated and that if he had his way he would make a law that "whoever was found at a conventicle should be banished the nation and the preacher be hanged.

'She's at--at Little Bethel, I suppose?'--getting out the name of the obnoxious conventicle with some reluctance, and laying a spiteful emphasis upon the words.

For the first week, whenever I looked out on the pond it impressed me like a tarn high up on the side of a mountain, its bottom far above the surface of other lakes, and, as the sun arose, I saw it throwing off its nightly clothing of mist, and here and there, by degrees, its soft ripples or its smooth reflecting surface was revealed, while the mists, like ghosts, were stealthily withdrawing in every direction into the woods, as at the breaking up of some nocturnal conventicle. The very dew seemed to hang upon the trees later into the day than usual, as on the sides of mountains.

These hidden, almost inaccessible locations, were used during the late 17th century for outdoor worship or Conventicles, which had been banned by the state and were frequently broken up by soldiers.

One of its early dictates was to forbid the holding of religious meetings or 'conventicles' without express royal authority.

He began to conduct conventicles, regarded as a crime punishable by death.

(94) See PROCTER-SMITH, supra note 93, at 220, 245 ("When the directors rebuked Stuyvesant for his strong ordinance against conventicles in 1656, they urged him that the best policy toward dissent would be to 'sweetly let it pass.'")

would have divided and alphabetized its sections except that he does not want to help "the Jacobite Conventicles" form "The High-Church and Non-Jurants Vade Mecum." The High Church nonetheless "will record him a Saint and a Hero." (34)

The Baptist movement apparently had an abrupt impact on British Protestantism, evident in the rapid growth of numerous congregations ("conventicles") across the British Isles.

In their presentments, the new grand juries avowed to actively prosecute dissenters, who were "destructive to the Interest of the Kingdom." (50) Furthermore, the grand juries insisted that any group that was larger in number than was allowed by laws who met in "Conventicles, Clubs, or Cabals" or "who go from County to County and Associate in Numbers to do Unlawful Acts" were also a threat to the nation and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.