Excerpt from History of Cambridge, Massachusetts: 1630-1877; With a Genealogical Register AT the present time, almost every principal sect into which the Christian Church is divided has its representatives in Cam bridge; and the introduction of a new sect produces compara tively little commotion. But in the beginning it was not so. For a few years after the settlement of New England by the Puritans, the churches had rest; but in 1686, the country was miserably distracted by a storm of Antinomian and Famalistical opinions ...
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Excerpt from History of Cambridge, Massachusetts: 1630-1877; With a Genealogical Register AT the present time, almost every principal sect into which the Christian Church is divided has its representatives in Cam bridge; and the introduction of a new sect produces compara tively little commotion. But in the beginning it was not so. For a few years after the settlement of New England by the Puritans, the churches had rest; but in 1686, the country was miserably distracted by a storm of Antinomian and Famalistical opinions then raised. 1 So violent became the controversy, and so great was the apparent danger of civil strife, that many of the heretical party, in Boston, Salem, Newbury, Roxbury, Ipswich, and Charlestowu, were disarmed.' The Cambridge church, how ever, seems to have escaped infection and none of its members were included among the disafiected and supposed dangerous chm. The vigilancy of Mr. Shepard was blessed for the preservation of his own congregation from the rot of these opinions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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