By Thomas S. Kidd
Throughout the early eighteenth century, colonial New England witnessed the tip of Puritanism and the emergence of a revivalist non secular stream that culminated within the evangelical awakenings of the 1740s. This engrossing publication explores the spiritual historical past of latest England through the interval and gives new purposes for this variation in cultural id. After England’s wonderful Revolution, says Thomas Kidd, New Englanders deserted their past hostility towards Britain, viewing it because the selected chief within the Protestant struggle opposed to global Catholicism. in addition they imagined themselves a part of a global Protestant neighborhood and changed their Puritan ideals with a revival-centered pan-Protestantism. Kidd discusses the increase of “the Protestant interest” and offers a compelling argument in regards to the origins of either eighteenth-century revivalism and the worldwide evangelical stream. Thomas S. Kidd is assistant professor of historical past at Baylor college.
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Colman wrote in 1712 to Kennett complaining about the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel’s (SPG) missions to dissenting New England churchgoers, as if they were fit 40 colman and the protestant interest targets for evangelization. Colman thought it a much better strategy for the SPG to target the ‘‘Heathen’’ and ‘‘Heathenish Places’’ where there was no settled ministry. Kennett responded well to the criticisms and assured Colman that the SPG did not mean to intrude on the New England churches’ rightful ministries.
In Fidelity to Christ and to the Protestant Succession in the Illustrious House of Hannover, Colman framed the succession of George II as the next step in the providential history of the monarchy beginning with William in 1688. ’’ Preaching on I Chronicles 12:18, Colman established as clearly as one can imagine Massachusetts’ hierarchy of religious and national commitments: ‘‘And if it may be pleasant to us as Britons and Protestants 42 colman and the protestant interest to make before God our solemn protestations, thro’ Grace, of an inviolate Loyalty to the House of our King, and to pour out our prayers to God for his long and peaceful Reign over us; How much more ought it to please and delight us as Christians to have an higher Application .
The new church admitted that it would make some changes from the usual policies of New England’s Congregationalists, most notably by reading Scripture without pastoral exposition, admitting people to communion by the pastor’s assent without a public profession of conversion, giving every baptized adult a vote in choosing a minister, and abandoning an explicit church covenant. ’’∞≠ The Brattle group had made their preemptive strike, but the Manifesto’s clever maneuvers did not prevent a harsh response from New England’s pastoral leadership, or panic on the part of Cotton Mather.
