“Another _bad_ thing is the _confusion_ that has been so common, of late, in some of our houses of worship. Says a friend, in giving an account of things, he was himself a witness to, ‘The meeting was carried on with great confusion; some _screaming_ out in distress and anguish; some _praying_; others _singing_; some _jumping up and down_ the house, while others were _exhorting_; some _lying along_ on the floor, and others _walking_ and _talking_: the whole with a very great noise, to be heard at a mile’s distance, and continued almost the whole night.’”[115] Dr. Chauncy proceeds to mention the _dangerous errors_ now prevalent among the people; namely: 1. “That which supposes ministers, if not _converted_, incapable of being _instruments of spiritual good_ to men’s souls. Mr. Whitefield very freely vented this error!”[116] 2. “A _presumptuous dependence on the blessed Spirit_; appearing in the following particulars: so depending on the help of the Spirit as to _despise learning_;” also, so as to “oppose a diligent use of _appointed means_;” and so as to “reflect _dishonour upon the written revelations of God_.” 3. “The making _assurance essential to conversion_.” 4. “The connecting a knowledge of the _time of conversion_ with the _thing itself_ as though there could not be the one without the other.” 5. “The _vilifying of good works_.” 6. “Decrying _sanctification_ as an _evidence of justification_.” Dr. Chauncy inserts a “proclamation for a day of public fasting and prayer,” issued, on the 9th of February, 1743, by the Honourable Jonathan Law, Esq., Governor of Connecticut, in which the ministers and people of the colony are exhorted to “confess and bewail” all their sins; “particularly, the great neglect and contempt of the gospel and the ministry thereof, and the prevailing of a spirit of error, disorder, unpeaceableness, pride, bitterness, uncharitableness, censoriousness, disobedience, calumniating and reviling of authority; also divisions, contentions, separations, and confusions in churches; and injustice, idleness, evil-speaking, lasciviousness, and all other vices and impieties which abound among us.”