Counsel to Prevent Backsliding and Degeneracy In Our Ministries

The Narrated Puritan

An association of ministers, between Northampton and Boston, seem of late to have applied themselves somewhat earnestly, to invent means for promoting religion. The following is a copy of something they have agreed upon for this end, as it was sent to me, by a minister that lives that way. "The sum and substance of the answers, given by the association, to this question, What things shall be done by us, for preventing the awful threatening degeneracy and backsliding in religion, in the present day? These, we apprehend, may be reduced to the following heads...