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Excerpt: ...arose a difference of opinion as to what the Master''s will might be touching any particular matter, the judgment of the elders, rather than the judgment even of a m… More...

Excerpt: ...arose a difference of opinion as to what the Master''s will might be touching any particular matter, the judgment of the elders, rather than the judgment even of a majority of the membership, must be taken as conclusive. To all intents and purposes, then, this was precisely the aristocracy which they affirmed that it was not. For the elders were to order business in the assurance that every truly humble and sincere member would consent thereto. If any did not consent, and after patient debate remained of another judgment, he was ''partial'' and ''factious,'' and continuing ''obstinate,'' he was ''admonished'' and his vote ''nullified;'' so that the elders could have their way in the end by merely adding the insult of the apparent but illusive offer of cooperation to the injury of their absolute control. As Samuel Stone of Hartford no more tersely than truly put it, this kind of Congregationalism was simply a ''speaking Aristocracy in the face of a silent Democracy.'' Footnote: Early New England Congregationalism, as seen in its Literature, p. 429. Dr. Dexter. It is true that Vassal''s petition was the event which made the ministers decide to call a synod Footnote: Winthrop, ii. 264. by means of an invitation of the General Court; but it is also certain that under no circumstances would the meeting of some such council have been long delayed. For sixteen years the well-known process had been going on, of the creation of institutions by custom, having the force of law; the stage of development had now been reached when it was necessary that those usages should take the shape of formal enactments. The Cambridge platform therefore marks the completion of an organization, and as such is the central point in the history of the Puritan Commonwealth. The work was done in August, 1648: the Westminster Confession was promulgated as the creed; the powers of the clergy were minutely defined, and the duty of the laity stated to be obeying their elders and submitting... Brooks Adams, Books, History, The Emancipation Of Massachusetts Books>History <

ISBN: 1153701138

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