(1) That no church ought to consist of more members than can meet in one place for worship and discipline. (2) That a church of Christ is to consist only of such as appear to believe in and obey him. (3) That any competent number of such have a right, when conscience obliges them, to form themselves into a distinct church. (4) That, being thus incorporated, they have a right to choose their own officers. (5) That these officers are teaching elders, ruling elders, and deacons. (6) That elders being chosen and ordained have no power to rule the church, but by consent of the brethren. (7) That all elders and all churches are equal in respect to power and privileges. (8) That the Lord’s Supper is to be received sitting at the table. (When in Holland they observed it every Lord’s day.) (9) That ecclesiastical censures are wholly spiritual, and not to be accompanied with temporal penalties. They admitted no holy days but the “Christian Sabbath,” though they had occasional days of fasting and thanksgiving; and finally they had renounced all human inventions or impositions on religious matters. In Scotland we find Congregational principles as far back as the Commonwealth. Independency had obtained much hold in England among all classes. The soldiers of Cromwell carried their principles with them, and are said to have formed a Congregational church in Edinburgh. But that church was not permanent, and we find nothing of churches of like order in Scotland till 1726, when John Glass, an eloquent and able minister, with avowed convictions in harmony with those of the English Independents, withdrew from the Church of Scotland and formed churches in most of the large towns of Scotland. These churches were called “Glassite.” Mr. Glass and his adherents taught: