 | 21.
Ibid
. 84-85.
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| 22.
Ibid. 86-98
.
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| 23.
Ibid
., 23-24 for the two quotations in this paragraph.
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| 24. All the great divines among the founders emphasized the survival of the Church of Christ. The most important sources are cited below.
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| 25. William Ames,
The Marrow of Sacred Divinity
(London, 1643), 136-37; Miller,
Orthodoxy
, 86.
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| 26. Richard Mather,
Church-Government and Church Covenant Discussed
, 27. Although published in 1643, this work was written in 1639.
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| 27. For a superb modern study of New England polity, see Morgan,
Visible Saints
. See also Larzer Ziff, ed.,
John Cotton on the Churches of New England
(Cambridge, Mass., 1968), 1-36. Ziff's
The Career of John Cotton
(Princeton, 1962) contains an excellent discussion of Church polity.
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| 28. Samuel Rutherford,
The Due Right of Presbyteries
(London, 1644); Chares Herle,
The Independency of Churches
(London, 1643). Hooker answered Rutherford in
A Survey of the Summe of Church Discipline
. John Cotton refers to Rutherford, Herle, and other Presbyterians in his
The Way of Congre-
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| gational Churches Cleared
(London, 1648), but it is directed primarily at Robert Baillie's
A Dissuasive from the Errours of our Time
(London, 1645). The definitive statement of Cotton's theory is
The Keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven
(London, 1644).
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| 29. Richard Mather,
A Reply to Mr. Rutherfurd
(London, 1647), 11-12, 14-20, 40-44, 58-60, 102-9; Richard Mather and William Thompson,
A Modest and Brotherly Answer To Mr. Charles Herle his Book
. . . (London, 1644), 1-8, 11-15, 18-20, 28-30, 44-47, 51-58. Mather's most important published work on ecclesiastical polity is
Church-Government and Church-Covenant Discussed, see especially
, 45-59, 65-66. Mather's
An Answer to Two Questions
(Boston, 1712) was written in 1645 and published at the instigation of Increase Mather. In it Mather refers approvingly to Cotton's
Keyes
, see 9-20.
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| 30.
A Platform of Church Discipline Gathered Out of the Word of God
. . . (Cambridge, Mass., 1649). Richard Mather drafted this document at the instruction of the synod which met 1646-48. For a convenient reprinting see Williston Walker,
The Creeds and Platforms of Congregationalism
(New York, 1893, reprinted Boston, 1960), 194-237.
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| 31. Genesis 17.1. Morgan,
Visible Saints
, 64-11.
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