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Title: The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statistics. With a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Belcher, Joseph, 1794-1859
Subjects: Sects Sects Religions
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. E. Potter
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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upon our horizon of that constellation of bene-factors bearing the name of Hollis. Perhaps, however, the public testimony in favor of the HarvardUniversity, was never more strongly evinced, than when in 1645, by anagreement, each family in the Massachusetts Colony gave one peck ofcorn or one shilling in cash to Cambridge College. I wish, says Dr. Bushnell, It were possible to claim for ourfathers the honor of a toleration of religious opinions. This, it wouldseem, that they might have learned from their own wrongs and suffer-ings. But they were not the men to think of finding their doctrines inany woes of their flesh. They had, in fact, a conscience against toler-ation, lest the state e whose end is religion, should seem to connive atfalse doctrines and schismatic practices. Therefore, when Cromwellwas proposing toleration in England, the Synod of Massachusetts evenprotested against the measure as licentious. And one of their ministers, ill) III 1 Hi Ml *■ I M mm® l m m$ < jiii
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CONGREGATIONALISTS. 357 the eccentric pastor of Ipswich, was stirred up to publish in England, amost violent diatribe against it. He delighted in the old maxim that6 true religion is a test of fire. Indeed he had lived in the midst oftoleration, upon the continent, and had not discovered its Christianbeauty. 1 lived, he says, in a city where a Papist preached in onechurch, a Lutheran in another, a Calvinist in a third; a Lutheran onepart of the day, and a Calvinist the other, in the same pulpit. Thereligion of that place was but motley and meagre, and their affectionsleopard-like. Alas ! for the brave pastor of Ipswich, how clear is itnow, that the toleration he so much dreaded really belonged to all butthe rather testy prejudices that he took for a part of his religion. Theold ignis probationis, too, whose smoke had so lately been wafted overEngland from Smithfield and Tyburn—which, however, he did notmean, I trust, to commend in its most literal and orthodox sense—isgone out for

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