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	The Cambridge Platform
		It was adopted by a church synod at Cambridge, Mass., and remains the basis of the temporal government of the churches.
		It had little to do with matters of doctrine and belief.
		The Congregationalists of Connecticut later subscribed (1708), in the Saybrook Platform, to a more centralized church government, resembling Presbyterianism.
	www.pragmatism.org /american/cambridge_platform.htm (5443 words)

	Pilgrim Platform: Ordinary Christianity for the World - The Reforming Synod of 1679-80
		The petition made no effort to change the Cambridge Platform or the Savoy Declaration, yet Walker suggests that the legislature itself may have been critical of the implied failure of those documents to bring about their intended results.
		The Savoy Declaration was the uncontested statement of doctrinal conformity, and the Cambridge Platform served as the statement of church polity.
		The Platform of Discipline was an allusion to The Cambridge Platform.
	www.pilgrim-platform.org /reforming.htm (4057 words)

	The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut - 1708 Saybrook Platform
		The Cambridge Platform was a declaration of principles of church government and discipline, forming a constitution of the Congregational churches.
		The Savoy Declaration was the uncontested statement of doctrinal conformity, and the Cambridge Platform served as the statement of church polity.
		The Platform of Discipline was an allusion to The Cambridge Platform.
	www.colonialwarsct.org /1708_saybrook_platform.htm (3985 words)

	The Cambridge Platform and the future of the church
		This special supplement to the Theology Page is a resource for congregations and seminaries using the 1648 Cambridge Platform as a tool for study in U.S. Christian history and polity.
		The Cambridge Platform was a transforming event in the life of 17th-century Congregationalism and is relevant to serious issues that concern all Christian churches today.
		Elizabeth C. Nordbeck writes that the heritage of the Cambridge Platform "heritage is immensely powerful, immensely compelling and still capable of shaping the present and future."
	www.ucc.org /beliefs/theology/the-cambridge-platform-and.html (424 words)

	The Cambridge Platform: A Reformed Option?
		Darrell Todd Maurina has edited the text by comparing several modern printings of the Cambridge Platform (hereafter CP), so that he is confident that this is "the most accurate of all the editions as well as the most readily useable by nonspecialists" (p.
		Maurina is wrong, therefore, when he advertises this new edition of the CP by suggesting that "Presbyterian readers of the Cambridge Platform are likely to find their stereotypes of Congregationalism to be severely challenged" (p.
		The aim of this edition is to present the Savoy Declaration and Cambridge Platform, not as museum pieces of Puritan history, but as living, vital options for Reformed Christians of anti-synodical and fully Congregational inclinations (p.
	www.prca.org /prtj/nov95c.html (2134 words)

	Cambridge Declaration - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Cambridge Declaration is a statement of faith written in 1996 by the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, a group of Reformed and Lutheran Evangelicals who were concerned with the state of the Evangelical movement in America, and throughout the world.
		The choice of location was deliberate, since Cambridge was the seat of Harvard and thus the center of ecclesiastical and intellectual life in 17th century America.
		Cambridge was also the location of The Cambridge Platform, a declaration of church polity made in 1648 by New England Puritans.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Cambridge_Declaration (1928 words)

	III. The Puritan Divines, 1620–1720: Bibliography. Vol. 15. Colonial and Revolutionary Literature; Early National ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		(7) A Platform of Church discipline gathered out of the word of God: and agreed upon by the Elders: and Messengers of the Churches assembled at the Synod at Cambridge in New-England.
		(3) To the Church and Inhabitants of Northampton in N.E. Cambridge, 1671.
		To the Church at Cambridge in New-England, and To the Students of the Colledge there.
	www.bartleby.com /225/0300.html (16354 words)

	CONGREGATIONALISM, (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The essential principles, as understood in New England, were codified in A Platform of Church Discipline (1648), commonly called the Cambridge Platform.
		Over the years, the congregationalism of the Cambridge Platform was subject to modification.
		The restriction of membership to the regenerate was eased after 1662 by the adoption in many New England churches of the Half-Way Covenant, which gave partial privileges to persons who were sympathetic with the congregational church order but who could not give assurance that they had experienced personal conversion.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?articleId=206313 (1226 words)

	Cambridge Platform: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		Liberties of Massachusetts and the Cambridge Platform of Church Discipline.
		Dr Ala Khazendar of Cambridge, responding in the Guardian to Hares...those with the privilege of a public platform have both a moral and an intellectual...
		CAMBRIDGE PLATFORM declaration of principles of church...was adopted (1648) by a church synod at Cambridge, Mass., and remains the basis of the...later subscribed (1708), in the Saybrook Platform, to a more centralized church government...
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/101235311 (1727 words)

	Faith & Freedom
		In 1648, ministers from the Bay, Plymouth, and Connecticut called a "synod" (a term that was later changed to "an association of ministers" to avoid Presbyterian implications).
		The result was the Cambridge Platform, an historic charter codifying the Congregational Way as the accepted form of church organization.
		It defined Christ's church as the body of believers, and specified that no visible church larger than the individual congregation would be recognized; that the selection of officers was the sole prerogative of the congregation; and that church discipline, such as excommunication, was strictly up to the particular church and was not a civil matter.
	www.leaderu.com /orgs/cdf/ff/chap08.html (3793 words)

	The Cambridge Platform at AllExperts
		The Cambridge Platform is a platform for religious freedom in Colonial America.
		It was drawn up in August, 1648 by a synod of ministers from Massachusetts and Connecticut, which met pursuant to a request of the Massachusetts General Court.
		The Cambridge Platform remained the standard formulation in Massachusetts through the 18th century and in Connecticut until the Saybrook Platform of 1708.
	en.allexperts.com /e/t/th/the_cambridge_platform.htm (199 words)

	Walking Together
		Last October I attended a series of lectures and workshops marking the 350th Anniversary of the Cambridge Platform which is a signal event in the history of that form of church governance known as congregational polity.
		The Platform said, "It is not the power of the magistrate to compel their subjects to become church members.
		One the one hand the Cambridge Platform declared that "the churches are distinct and not to be confounded one with another; equal and not to have dominion over another; yet", on the other hand, "all the churches ought to preserve communion one with another."
	www.firstparishnorwell.org /sermons/walking.htm (1346 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Congregationalism (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1648 in the Cambridge Platform a summary of principles of church government and discipline was drawn up.
		Congregationalists took a leading part in the Great Awakening that, in New England, was started in 1734 by the preaching of Jonathan Edwards.
		The National Association of Congregational Christian Churches was formed in 1955 by churches that chose not to join in the merger; it had about 70,000 members in 1997.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/Congrega.asp (779 words)

	John Norton
		He was educated at Cambridge university and became a curate in his native town.
		After serving as tutor at Bowdoin in 1809-'10, and at Harvard in 1811-'12, he became editor of "The General Repository." From 1813 till 1821 he was librarian at Harvard, and in the former year he became lecturer on biblical criticism and interpretation.
		In 1819 he was elected Dexter professor of sacred literature in the new divinity school at Cambridge, which chair he occupied till 1830, when ill health forced him to resign.
	www.famousamericans.net /johnnorton (993 words)

	Protestantism in America: A Narrative History
		The Cambridge Platform insisted that the Church existed in its fullness in each local congregation which selected its own ministers and officers for the church.
		In 1654 the congregation of Cambridge Church was shocked by a statement from Henry Dunster, the highly respected president of Harvard College.
		According to the Cambridge Platform, synods had no real jurisdiction or authority over local congregations or pastors, but now even the Government was no longer interested in enforcing discipline.
	www.religion-online.org /showchapter.asp?title=1663&C=1656 (6477 words)

	Interdependence: Renewing Congregational Polity, Section 2 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Cambridge Platform holds that "there is no greater Church than a Congregation," which consists of visible saints in voluntary agreement and covenant with each other to "worship, edify and have fellowship." [1] Each church is autonomous, because there is no higher authority than the congregation.
		The Platform also sanctions the calling of synods (or councils), official gatherings of congregations to settle general matters of dispute (such as that which created the Cambridge Platform).[4] None of these exists formally today.
		After the Cambridge Platform of 1648 came the Half Way Covenant of 1657, the Savoy Declaration of 1658, the "Reforming Synod" of 1679, the "Heads of Agreement" of 1691, the Proposals of 1705, and the Saybrook Platform of 1708.
	uua.org /polity/sect2.htm (3872 words)

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