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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 Congregational churches required evidence of a personal conversion experience before granting church membership and the right to have one's children baptized .
Stoddard is credited with propounding the Half-way Covenant, at Northampton on 18 April 1661. [ 11 ] while young Elezear Mather was the pastor. It represented a reaffirmation of the Communion rules that accompanied a decline of piety in the Congregational church .
In New England, he was a staunch opponent of the 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 but who had not given evidence of a "conversion" and been admitted to full membership) be allowed to receive baptism. [9]
Theron, Paulinus and Aspasio; or Letters and Dialogues upon tile Nature of Love to God, Faith in Christ, and Assurance of a Title to Eternal Life (1759) The Nature and Glory of the Gospel (1762) A Blow at the Root of Antinomianism (1763) There is but One Covenant (1769) Four Dialogues on the Half-Way Covenant (1769)
The covenant of works (Latin: foedus operum, also called the covenant of life) was made in the Garden of Eden between God and Adam who represented all humankind as a federal head (Romans 5:12–21). God offered Adam a perfect and perpetual life if he did not violate God's single commandment, but warned that death would follow if he disobeyed ...
24. “With self-discipline most anything is possible.” 25. “It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.”
Steinmann was translation coordinator for the God's Word Translation [2] of the Bible, and currently serves on the Translation Oversight Committee for the Christian Standard Bible. [3] He also served as staff pastor at Lutheran Home [ 4 ] in Westlake, Ohio , before he accepted a position at Concordia University Chicago. [ 5 ]
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