A meeting in 1743 of the Consociation of Windham (to whose jurisdiction the Canterbury church belonged), together with a council of New Lights, brought temporary peace.
This was the first and only General Consociation ever called.
Jonathan Edwards opposed both the spirit of the General Consociation and also the legislation of the Assembly.
The Consociation has no right to pretend that it is a divinely instituted assembly with the Saybrook Platform for its charter, imposing a tyranny more intolerable on the people than that from which they are trying to free themselves.
Fairfield East Consociation had licensed Brainerd the year that Yale expelled him.
A church could call upon its Consociation for advice before sentencing an offender, but the offender could not appeal to the Consociation without the consent of his church.
In 1747, the Consociation of Windham sent forth a violent pamphlet describing the Separatists as a people in revolt against God and in rebellion against the Church and government.
In 1745 this church attempted to throw off the yoke of the Consociation by renouncing the Saybrook Platform.
About the same time, the Consociation of New Haven invited their former member, Mr. Bobbins of Branford, to sit with them again at the installation of Mr. Street of East Haven.
But a consociation of churches hath no particular head as such, of divine institution, to constitute and govern them as one.
Wherein doth a particular church of Christ's institution differ from a consociation of many churches?
So that if this consociation of churches be called a church, it must be either equivocally or in a human sense.
The loving consociationof neighbour churches for concord.
During the course of the night the two souls are supposed to enter into mystic consociation with the babe, and thenceforth to be its companions.
Of the effect and purpose of this consociation no very definite explanation has so far been given to me.
