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Cambridge Platform

Index Cambridge Platform

The Cambridge Platform is a statement describing the system of church government in the Congregational churches of colonial New England. [1]

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Cambridge Declaration

The Cambridge Declaration is a statement of faith written in 1996 by the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, a group of Reformed and Lutheran Evangelicals who were concerned with the state of the Evangelical movement in America, and throughout the world.

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Congregational Christian Churches

The Congregational Christian Churches were a Protestant Christian denomination that operated in the U.S. from 1931 through 1957.

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Congregational church

Congregational churches (also Congregationalist churches; Congregationalism) are Protestant churches in the Reformed tradition practicing congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs.

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Congregational Library & Archives

The Congregational Library & Archives is an independent special collections library and archives.

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Congregationalism in the United States

Congregationalism in the United States consists of Protestant churches in the Reformed tradition that have a congregational form of church government and trace their origins mainly to Puritan settlers of colonial New England.

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Congregationalist polity

Congregationalist polity, or congregational polity, often known as congregationalism, is a system of ecclesiastical polity in which every local church congregation is independent, ecclesiastically sovereign, or "autonomous".

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Half-Way Covenant

The Half-Way Covenant was a form of partial church membership adopted by the Congregational churches of colonial New England in the 1660s.

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History of the Puritans in North America

In the early 17th century, thousands of English Puritans settled in North America, mainly in New England.

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John Cotton (minister)

John Cotton (4 December 1585 – 23 December 1652) was a clergyman in England and the American colonies and considered the preeminent minister and theologian of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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John Leverett

John Leverett (baptized 7 July 1616 – 16 March 1678/9In the Julian calendar, then in use in England, the year began on March 25. To avoid confusion with dates in the Gregorian calendar, then in use in other parts of Europe, dates between January and March were often written with both years. Dates in this article are in the Julian calendar unless otherwise noted.) was an English colonial magistrate, merchant, soldier and the penultimate governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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John Norton (divine)

John Norton (May 6, 1606 – April 5, 1663) was a Puritan divine.

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List of Christian creeds

Christianity has through Church history produced a number of Christian creeds, confessions and statements of faith.

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National Council of the Congregational Churches of the United States

The National Council of Congregational Churches of the United States was a mainline Protestant, Christian denomination in the United States.

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Presbyterianism in the United States

Presbyterianism has had a presence in the United States since colonial times and has exerted an important influence over broader American religion and culture.

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Reformed confessions of faith

Reformed confessions of faith are the confessions of faith of various Reformed churches.

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Savoy Declaration

The Savoy Declaration is a modification of the Westminster Confession of Faith (1646).

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Saybrook Platform

The Saybrook Platform was a new constitution for the Congregational church in Connecticut in 1708.

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Timeline of Colonial America

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Westminster Assembly

The Westminster Assembly of Divines was a council of theologians (or "divines") and members of the English Parliament appointed to restructure the Church of England which met from 1643 to 1653.

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Zabdiel Adams

Zabdiel Adams (November 5, 1739 – March 1, 1801), minister of Lunenburg, Massachusetts, was born in Braintree, now Quincy.

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1648

It is the year of the Peace of Westphalia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Platform

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