Historical Address and Appendix (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

H. P. Hedges

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331866960 ISBN 13: 9781331866961

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Historical Address and Appendix

Friends of Bridge-Hampton: - The largest of all the pioneer waves that rolled over this Continent was the Puritan, striking Plymouth Rock; it swelled in majestic momentum, moving to all points until movement became part of its very nature. The swing of the Pilgrim axe, year by year grew wider. The genius of tlie Puritan was constructive and self-reliant. Puritan colonies from the first were substantially self governed. Very early they declared to the world that Governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. But long, long years before this, the Puritan had disowned all ecclesiastical subjection to Priest or Hierarch, and insisted on the right of the people to organize and govern a church for themselves. They declared for "a church without a Bishop," long before they declared for "a State without a King." Substantially they defined a church as "A company of believers in Christ associated together for the Public worship of God, for the observance of Christian ordinances, and for mutual aid and encouragement in all Christian duties." They believed the powers of church government inhered in the people as afterwards that the powers of Civil government so inhered. Both in Church and State, developed last in the latter, was the Puritan ideal that power to organize and govern churches and communities rightfully sprang from the people.

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Excerpt from Historical Address and Appendix

The vote of July, 1686, acquiring land for the site of a Meeting House is in words looking to a building to be, rather than one already built, but not conclusively so. The vote to tax the whole town 5056 to build the Bridge, and the vote to release the people East of the fading Place from paying rates to Mr. Whiting, all imply a church building already erected, or such progress toward it as assured its speedy com pletion. In the vote as to paying rates it is significant that the release was conditioned to take effect from October next, and the vote to lay out forty acres by November next is likewise significant and imply that then, if not before, the Meeting House would be ready for the minister to be called.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1331866960
• ISBN 13: 9781331866961
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 57