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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 6: civil History. (search)
an controversy, and his own congregation had been preserved from all taint of the great heresy. Concerning the Antinomian and Famalistic opinions which then distracted the churches, Cotton Mather says, a synod This Synod met at Cambridge, Aug. 30, 1637, and began with prayer made by Mr. Shepard. Mr. Bulkeley of Concord, and Mr. Hooker, of Hartford, were the Moderators. Having condemned about eighty opinions, some blasphemous, others erroneous, and all unsafe,—the assembly brake up, Sept. 22, 1637.—Savage's Winthrop, i. 237-240. assembled at Cambridge, whereof Mr. Shepard was no small part, most happily crushed them all. The vigilancy of Mr. Shepard was blessed, not only for the preservation of his own congregation from the rot of these opinions, but also for the deliverance of all the flocks which our Lord had in the wilderness. And it was with a respect unto this vigilancy, and the enlightening and powerful ministry of Mr. Shepard, that, when the foundation of a college was to