Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from History of Cambridge, Massachusetts: 1630-1877; With a Genealogical Register
AT the present time, almost every principal sect into which the Christian Church is divided has its representatives in Cam bridge; and the introduction of a new sect produces compara tively little commotion. But in the beginning it was not so. For a few years after the settlement of New England by the Puritans, the churches had rest; but in 1686, the country was miserably distracted by a storm of Antinomian and Famalistical opinions then raised. 1 So violent became the controversy, and so great was the apparent danger of civil strife, that many of the heretical party, in Boston, Salem, Newbury, Roxbury, Ipswich, and Charlestowu, were disarmed.' The Cambridge church, how ever, seems to have escaped infection and none of its members were included among the disafiected and supposed dangerous chm. The vigilancy of Mr. Shepard was blessed for the preservation of his own congregation from the rot of these opinions.
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