Sabbath in Puritan New England. Alice Morse Earle

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       Alice Morse Earle

      Sabbath in Puritan New England

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664617613

Table of Contents

       I

       The New England Meeting-House.

       II

       The Church Militant.

       III

       By Drum and Horn and Shell.

       IV

       The Old-Fashioned Pews.

       V

       Seating the Meeting.

       VI

       The Tithingman and the Sleepers.

       VII

       The Length of the Service.

       VIII

       The Icy Temperature of the Meeting-House.

       IX

       The Noon-House.

       X

       The Deacon's Office.

       XI

       The Psalm-Book of the Pilgrims.

       XII

       The Bay Psalm-Book.

       XIII

       Sternhold and Hopkins' Version of the Psalms.

       XIV

       Other Old Psalm-Books.

       XV

       The Church Music.

       XVI

       The Interruptions of the Services.

       XVII

       The Observances of the Day.

       XVIII

       The Authority of the Church and the Ministers.

       XIX

       The Ordination of the Minister.

       XX

       The Ministers.

       XXI

       The Ministers' Pay.

       XXII

       The Plain-Speaking Puritan Pulpit.

       XXIII

       The Early Congregations.

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The New England Meeting-House.

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      When the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth they at once assigned a Lord's Day meeting-place for the Separatist church,--"a timber fort both strong and comely, with flat roof and battlements;" and to this fort, every Sunday, the men and women walked reverently, three in a row, and in it they worshipped until they built for themselves a meeting-house in 1648.

      As soon as each successive outlying settlement was located and established, the new community built a house for the purpose of assembling therein for the public worship of God; this house was called a meeting-house. Cotton Mather said distinctly that he "found no just ground in Scripture to apply such a trope as church to a house for public assembly." The church, in the Puritan's way of thinking, worshipped in the meeting-house, and he was as bitterly opposed to calling this edifice a church as he was