CONFESSION OF FAITH AND FORM OF COVENANT, OF THE OLD SOUTH CHURCH, IN BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, WITH LISTS OF THE FOUNDERS, THE PASTORS, THE RULING ELDERS AND DEACONS, AND THE MEMBERS. "One is your Master, even CHRIST; and all ye are brethren." BOSTON: PRINTED BY CROCKER AND BREWSTER, At a Meeting of the Church at the Chapel, Nov. 20, 1840. Voted, That it is expedient to re-publish the Form of Covenant, the Lists of the Founders and other Members, together with the Confession of Faith of the Old South Church. Voted, That one thousand copies be printed, and that each church member be entitled to one copy; also that each pew proprietor, who is not a church member, be entitled to a copy. Voted, That Brethren Cutler, Armstrong, and Sampson be a committee to carry into effect the foregoing votes. Voted, That the Pastor also furnish each candidate for church membership with a copy, previously to a public profession of religion. NOTICES OF THE HISTORY OF THE OLD SOUTH CHURCH.. THE THIRD CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH in Boston, now usually styled THE OLD SOUTH CHURCH, was formed at Charlestown on the 12th and 16th of the third month, i. e. of May 1669, O. S. * Mr. Thatcher had been Pastor of the Church in Weymouth, Mass., from which he had been dismissed, and had removed to Charlestown, and united with the First Church there, from which he was dismissed to be united with this church at its formation. These females are also to be regarded as among the founders of the church. Their names are, therefore, here inserted, from the book of "Admissions.” The names of the several Pastors, and the dates of their ordination or installation, and of their decease or dismission, are as follows: Thomas Thatcher, inst'd Feb. 16, 1670, deceased Oct. 15, 1678. Æ 58 Samuel Willard, do. April 10, 1678, do. Sept. 12, 1707. " 67 Samuel Blair, John Bacon, Alexander Cumming, inst'd Feb. 25, 1761, do. Aug. 25, 1763. " 36 do. Nov. 26, 1766, dismissed Oct. 10, 1769. 1775. John Hunt, do. Sept. 25, 1771, do. Feb. 8, do. April 30, 1811. " 61 May 18, 1808, do. Sept. 11, 1819. " 33 ord'd Sept. 25, 1771, deceased Dec. 30, 1775.“ 31 Joseph Eckley, D. D., do. Oct. 27, 1779, Joshua Huntington, do. Benj. B. Wisner, D. D.,do. Feb. 21, 1821, dismissed Nov. 12, 1832, having been chosen one of the Secretaries of the American Board of Commis sioners for Foreign Missions. Samuel H. Stearns, ord'd April 16, 1834, He died Feb. 9, 1835, aged 40. dismissed March 8, 1836. |