THE

CONGREGATIONALISM

OF THE LAST THREE HUNDRED YEARS,

AS SEEN IN ITS LITERATURE:

WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CERTAIN

RECONDITE, Neglected, or disputed paSSAGES.

IN TWELVE LECTURES,

DELIVERED ON THE SOUTHWORTH FOUNDATION IN THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY AT

ANDOVER, MASS., 1876-1879.

With a Bibliographical Appendir.

BY

HENRY MARTYN DEXTER.

In these old tomes

Live the old times.

NEW YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS. PUBLISHERS,

FRANKL. N SQ

1880.

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TO

THEODORE DWIGHT WOOLSEY, D. D., LL. D.

EX-PRESIDENT OF YALE COLLEGE,

AND

EDWARDS AMASA PARK, D. D.

ABBOT PROFESSOR OF CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY AT ANDOVER:

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THE EARLY STIMULUS OF WHOSE FRIENDLY AND DISCREET INSTRUCTION,