year. The reading of the Bible at ordination services did not become customary until an even later date.[22] Such are some of the practical innovations which accompanied the doctrinal development that was taking place. Liberality in one direction brought toleration and progress in others. Some of these changes were due to the fact that the prejudices against the Catholic Church and the Church of England had, in a measure, disappeared, because there was nothing to keep them alive. Others were due to the intellectual influences that came into the colonies from England. Still others resulted from the shifting relations of church and state, and were the effect of attempts to adjust those relations more satisfactorily. [1] Narrative of Surprising Conversions, edition of 1808, 13. [2] Denial of original sin, from Pelagius, an ascetic preacher of the fifth century. [3] Dwight, Life of Edwards, 307, 336, 410, 413. [4] Ibid., 649. [5] Ibid., 495. [6] Green, History of Springfield. [7] Ibid., 255. [8] E.H. Byington, The Puritan in England and New England, devotes a chapter to the controversy over Breck's settlement; but he does not treat of the theological problems involved. [9] Whitefield's Seventh Journal, 28. [10] History of Harvard University, 52. [11] History of Harvard University, 23, 26. [12] Whitefield's Journal, seventh part, 28. [13] Historical Magazine, new series, IX. 227, April, 1871. [14] W.B. Sprague, Annals of the Unitarian Pulpit, II. [15] Levi L. Paine, A Critical History of the Evolution of Trinitarianism, 99. "Samuel Clarke and others took the ground that God is unipersonal, and hence that the Son is a distinct personal being, distinguishing God the Father as the absolute Deity from the Son whom they regarded as God in a relative or secondary sense, being derived from the Father, and having his beginning from Him." [16] Seasonable Thoughts, 337.