The Half-Way Covenant was a form of partial church membership adopted by the Congregational churches of colonial New England in the 1660s. The Puritan-controlled...

secure the frontier borders. Stoddard is credited with propounding the Half-way Covenant, at Northampton on 18 April 1661. while young Elezear Mather was the...

covenant and lived Christian lives. Some churches maintained the original standard into the 1700s. Other churches went beyond the Half-Way Covenant,...

recommendations made by the Synod of 1662, known as the Half-Way Covenant, which proposed that the children of "half-way" members (those who had been baptized as infants...

Congregational churches was brought about first through practices such as the Half-Way Covenant and second through the rise of dissenting Baptists, Quakers, Anglicans...

indicted on charges of afflicting with witchcraft, or for making an unlawful covenant with the Devil. Once indicted, the defendant went to trial, sometimes on...

doctrine, as well as personal and corporate piety. Puritans adopted a covenant theology, and in that sense they were Calvinists (as were many of their...

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English army was easily crushed by Scottish supporters of the National Covenant. Now in need of money to pay indemnities to the Scots, Charles was advised...

the Congregational church became an established religion. There the Half-Way Covenant of 1662 allowed parents who had not testified to a conversion experience...

alliance between moderate Parliamentarians and Royalists, supported by the Covenanter Scots. Royalist defeat in the 1648 Second English Civil War resulted in...

we receive the possibility of freedom as a gift of the way things are, an authentic covenant is: a glad promise to live freely together, insofar as we...

to secure England for Catholicism, she needed an heir and her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth had to be prevented from inheriting the Crown. On the advice...

fellow ministers. Each congregation should be founded on a written church covenant, and the congregation as a whole should govern the church: "The meetings...

may be reformed?” Spiritual decline was in part attributed to the Half-Way Covenant and surrounding controversy. The synod adopted the Savoy recension...

adopted (with the omission of Mather's paragraph favouring the "Half-Way Covenant", of which he strongly approved) by the general synod in August 1646...

only "visible saints," membership declined over time. Though the "half-way covenant" was proposed in 1657 and endorsed by the minister, the congregation...

Sundays and ostentatious clothing. He was initially opposed to the Half-Way Covenant but later supported it. He firmly believed in the direct appearance...

should be included "in the treatment of the means of grace." Covenant theology Half-Way Covenant Presumptive regeneration Wikner, Benjamin K. (2004). "Introduction"...

On March 27, 2023, a mass shooting occurred at The Covenant School, a Presbyterian Church in America parochial elementary school in the Green Hills neighborhood...

Connecticut. New Haven Colony incorporated into the Connecticut Colony. Half-Way Covenant in New England. In the Colony of Virginia, the House of Burgesses...

there had come a crisis in his relations with his congregation. The Half-Way Covenant, adopted by the synods of 1657 and 1662, had made baptism alone the...

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reversing a trend allowing the non-converted to participate (see Half-Way Covenant for more information). The New Divinity's theology of religious experience...

rather than the pope, was its supreme head on earth. Under Elizabeth's half-brother, Edward VI, the Church of England became more explicitly Protestant...

defined as "a company of saints by calling, united into one body by a holy covenant, for the public worship of God, and the mutual edification one of another...

In the face of declining church membership, Mather proposed the Half-way covenant, which was adopted. This policy allowed people to have their children...

Edwards". pp. 93–103. Bright, Steve (2003). "Sabbath Keeping and the New Covenant". Christian Research Journal. 26 (2). Christian Research Institute. Williamson...

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