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Excerpt from Sermons and Exercises in Recognition of the Forty Years' Service of Rev. Alexander McKenzie, D.D., As Pastor of the First Church in Cambridge, 1636, and the Shepard Congregational Society, 1829: January 20-27, 1907
The foremost purpose of our fathers was to establish here a church after the New Testament pattern, in which their loyalty to truth and liberty would be unrestrained. They held the old creeds, and they joined in the covenant which embodied the spirit of the creeds, the covenant which has been preserved and is constantly renewed among us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.