The Autobiography of Thomas Shepard: The Celebrated Minister of Cambridge, N. E.; With Additional Notices of His Life and Character (Classic Reprint)

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The circumstances connected with the publication of this Auto-biography are as interesting to those concerned in them as the book itself. The First Church in Cambridge, settled and built up by this great and good man Thomas Shepard, (after the removal of a former Church with their Pastors, Hooker and Stone, from Cambridge to Hartford, Conn.) was compelled a few years since, by measures too well known to the public, to leave their place of worship in the hands of a Unitarian parish, and two or three Unitarian male members of the Church. By decisions of the Supreme Court of Mass. the churches have been pronounced incompetent to retain property unless connected with an incorporated society. These decisions, made in opposition to a vast array of facts, and contrary to the opinions of many of the most distinguished jurists not only of this, but of other States, have stripped the churches of property raised at the communion table or given expressly for the use of the Church by those who never dreamed that their sacred donations would be sequestered to the support of 'another gospel.' The Church in Cambridge owned a valuable set of Communion Plate, parts of which were purchased, as appears from the Records, by church funds, and the rest given by individual members or friends.

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