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Title: History of all the religious denominations in the United States : containing authentic accounts of the rise and progress, faith and practice, localities and statistics, of the different persuasions ..
Year: 1849 (1840s)
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Subjects: Christian sects Christianity
Publisher: Harrisburg, Pa. : John Winebrenner
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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trines of the variousProtestant denominations of Christians en-tirely out of question, adopted as articlesof faith only those fundamental scripturetruths in which they all agree, and at thesame time introduced a system of socialcompact and church discipline resemblingthat of the ancient church of the Mora-vian Brethren, and intended to form a so-ciety in some degree such as the primitivechurches are represented to have been. All the inhabitants of Herrnhut, aftermature consideration, adopted this socialscheme and these statues, by the name ofa brotherly agreement, and pledged them-selves mutually to its observance, in theyear 1727, and thus formed the first stockof the present society of United Brethren.Count Zinzendorf was justly in some mea-sure considered the founder of the society, towhich he thenceforward devoted his wholelife, property and energy. It will be readilyconceived, however, more especially afterobserving that further emigrations fromBohemia and Moravia were checked by
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M«a? MSCflDIk&S *L!WHi9©®ra¥J :_ HISTOID OK THE \HH! \\ I \\>. 85J anient Bl an early ;»ii- ..1, (hat th descendants of the emigrants, tltail day, constitute bul a small portion oftin- present society, Individuals from .illPrstostant denominations, coinciding in thefundamental doctrines of Christianit) com-mon to all, and professing a desire t lead a truly Christian lili-, as members of such ■ community, under its peculiar regula-were from the beginning admittedamong them, without renouncing theiroriginal church and creed. On the con-trary, to facilitate the maintenance of theirconnection with their original churches,tli- society expressly includes three dif-ferent tropes or modifications within itspale : the Lutheran, the Reformed, and the.Moravian, which latter comprises all otherProtestant denominations. Experience hastaught that these differences, among per-sons so intimately associated, vanish ofthemselves to such a degree, that the ori-ginal idea of these tropes is

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