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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2009
The present tendency toward centralization among Congregationalists and Baptists is one of the prominent phenomena of contemporary American Church History. It deserves recognition as a sign of the times; it is for historians to find its place in the continuity of historical development. The records of its latest phases are hardly yet in print; its beginnings are several centuries old.
page 36 note 1 Vide Confession of 1589 of the London-Amsterdam Church in Walker, Creeds and Platforms of Congregationalism, pp. 34–37.
page 36 note 2 Mather, Richard, Order of the Gospels (1700), p. 73.Google Scholar
page 37 note 1 Hooker, , Preface to Survey of the Sum of Church Discipline.Google Scholar
page 38 note 1 Walker, , Creeds and Platforms of Congregationalism, pp. 210–237.Google Scholar
page 38 note 2 Cf. ibid., pp. 515–516;
page 38 note 2 Bacon, , Contributions to the Ecclesiastical History of Connecticut, pp. 68–70.Google Scholar
page 39 note 1 For the text of the articles vide Walker, Creeds, pp. 502–506.
page 39 note 2 Cf.ibid., pp. 509–514.
page 40 note 1 Minutes of the Philadelphia Association, 1707–1807.
page 40 note 2 John Comer's Diary, pp. 66 n., 70–71 n.
page 40 note 3 Newman, , History of the Baptist Churches in the United States, pp. 275–278, 352 f., 367 f.Google Scholar
page 41 note 1 Millet, , Maine Baptists, pp. 250–253.Google Scholar
page 41 note 2 Ibid., p. 103.
page 41 note 3 Ibid., p. 250.
page 41 note 4 For the beginnings of Baptist Councils vide Allison, Baptist Councils in America, (1906), pp. 27–41.
page 42 note 1 Cf., e.g. Newman, , A Century of Baptist Achievement, pp. 174–279,322–254.Google Scholar
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page 48 note 1 Cf. The Standard (Chicago), May 25, 1907.