A HISTORY OF PRESBYTERIANISM IN NEW ENGLAND. ITS INTRODUCTION, GROWTH, DECAY, REVIVAL BY ALEXANDER BLAIKIE, D.D., FOR THIRTY-THREE YEARS pastor of the (u.) first prESBYTERIAN CHURCH, BOSTON. AUTHOR OF "THE PHILOSOPHY OF Sectarianism," ETC., ETC. "Thy saints take pleasure in her stones, Her very dust to them is dear." TWO VOLUMES IN ONE. BOSTON: PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR BY ALEXANDER MOORE, 1881. Price $2.00. Sold by subscription. Sent by mail. Dedication. TO PRESBYTERIANS IN NEW ENGLAND. RESPECTED FRIENDS :-Our "Form of sound words," embracing doctrine, worship, government and discipline, is not ephemeral. As a more exact embodiment of revealed truth, than is found elsewhere among human productions, it will be perpetuated. Both Prelacy and Congregationalism borrow our axle to keep their wheels in motion. They could not usefully exist without at least some consultative, if not judicial representation. As we see, in the case of the seven churches in Lesser Asia, the influence of revealed truth is not always equable and enduring. It performs its mission successfully, in proportion to the faithfulness of its professors. Let us therefore be "valiant for the truth in the earth," and be "judged faithful to the Lord"-" followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises." This work is written, that, you may know something of the doctrine, faithfulness, endurance and success or otherwise, of Presbyterians in former generations here-under the overshadowing influence of a different church polity-sustained by the civil power. It is "written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord." (3) |