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Excerpt from A Pocket Manual of Congregationalism Our peace was disturbed also by another change, the separation of church and state in New England. The Cambridge Platform, 1648, rested its discipline ultimately on the coercive power of the magistrate, as its last chapter shows; and to that power there were sad but frequent appeals. This very citadel soon crumbled into ruins, but no other defence was erected in its place, except in Connecticut (see my article in the New Englander, 1883, 461-491, on Some Neglected Factors in Congregational Fellowship. And so con fusion arose. We tried to make occasional councils conserve purity where our fathers relied on the coercive power of the magistrate. The attempt was. Not a complete success. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.