Why Did Not Massachusetts Have a Saybrook Platform? (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Williston Walker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0265052378 ISBN 13: 9780265052372

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Why Did Not Massachusetts Have a Saybrook Platform?

O the student of the history of New England, whether his interest centers chiefly in the religious or political development of the land, the Saybrook synod is of much importance. In the call and action of that body State and Church came into as intimate relations as have ever existed between them in English-speaking America. At the com mand of the government of Connecticut, the representatives of the churches met, in 1708, and outlined an ecclesiastical constitution differing in many particulars from the churchly usages of the colony up to that time, - ia constitution lim iting sharply the freedom of individual congregations, pro viding bodies for the adjudication of disputes within definite territories, appointing the method of ministerial licensure and settlement, and giving to the established religious sys tem of the colony a fixity in administration markedly con trasting with the prevailing individualism of Massachusetts Congregationalism during the greater part of the eighteenth century. The result of this synod, supported as it was by the State, stamped on Connecticut Congregationalism a peculiar' semi-presbyterian character; and, so obvious was the unlike ness between the organization of the churches of that colony and those of other parts of New England a hundred years ago, that the natural inclination is to look upon the Saybrook system as of local growth. In reality, however, it was the fruit of a movement which made itself strongly felt in Massa chusetts, and probably originated in that colony. Why this wide-spread tendency accomplished little in the larger prov ince, while it became dominant in Connecticut, is the object of present inquiry.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

About this title

About the Author

Williston Walker was born in Portland, Maine, July 1, 1860, the son of a distinguished Congregational minister. He received his A. B. degree from Amherst College in 1883, was graduated from Hartford Theological Seminary in 1886 and received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Leipzig in 1888. He succeeded Woodrow Wilson as associate professor of history at Bryn Mawr College. He later taught church history at Hartford Theological Seminary. In 1901 Yale University called him to succeed George Park Fisher as Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History, a position which he held until his death in 1922. "The Reformation, Ten New England Leaders, Great Men of the Christian Church, " and "A History of the Christian Church" are among his distinguished works.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0265052378
• ISBN 13: 9780265052372
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 28