The comprehensive history of England : civil and military, religious, intellectual, and social, from the earliest period to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt . ^ tlie presbyteryof London, and finally, in 1833, from his staml-ing as an ordained minister, l)y the presbj^tei-yof his native Annan. For these exclusions, how-. Rkv. Kdward Irvixo. From a print !?>? Meji-r, aftf r a lirawifi? 1 y A Rjbertjoii. ever, Mr. Irving cared little, surrounded as hewas by prophets and pro), who were ofliigher account with him than presbyteries andgeneral ; ami on liis expulsion from
The comprehensive history of England : civil and military, religious, intellectual, and social, from the earliest period to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt . ^ tlie presbyteryof London, and finally, in 1833, from his staml-ing as an ordained minister, l)y the presbj^tei-yof his native Annan. For these exclusions, how-. Rkv. Kdward Irvixo. From a print !?>? Meji-r, aftf r a lirawifi? 1 y A Rjbertjoii. ever, Mr. Irving cared little, surrounded as hewas by prophets and pro), who were ofliigher account with him than presbyteries andgeneral ; ami on liis expulsion fromRegent Square he betook himself to a buildingin Newman Street, which his people had fittedup as a place of worship, and where he organ-ized his congregation into a separate anil distinctchurch. They were now placed under a fourfoldministry of apostles, prophets, evangelists, andjiastors, Mr. Irving himself being ordained astlie angel of the church of Newman Street. In1834 he died at the age of forty-two, worn outby a life of intellectual excitement, and thefeverish labours of his latter yeai-s in support-ing and propagating the doctrines of his newsystem. His followers, who were numerous,liad at first been called Rowites, from the parishin which the excitement had commenced ; butthis name, wliich designated a s
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