Since the following pages were prepared for the press, the calamity, in anticipation of which they were written, has actually overtaken this portion of the Church of God .  The Legislature of England and Ireland, ( the members of which are not even bound to profess belief in the Atonement ,) this body has virtually usurped the commission of those whom our Saviour entrusted with at least one voice in making ecclesiastical laws, on matters wholly or partly spiritual.  The same Legislature has also