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	Solomon Stoddard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Reverend Solomon Stoddard was one of the most important puritan religious leaders in the colonial period and was the grandfather of the famous Rev. Jonathan Edwards.
		Stoddard is credited with The Halfway Covenant, a relaxation of the rules of Communion that accompanied a decline of piety in the Congregational church.
		Stoddard's interest was to insure the growth of church congregations in a colony of second-generation pilgrims who were increasingly interested in politics and economics, and less interested in religion than their immigrant parents.
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	Solomon Stoddard
		Stoddard was a Puritan minister at a Congregationalist Church in Northampton, Massachusetts for 57 years (1672-1729).
		Stoddard was unusual for a New England Puritan in that he allowed an open communion and called for broader church oversight than was the Congregational standard form of church polity.
		Stoddard's grandson, Jonathan Edwards joined him in ministry at Northampton in 1724, and succeeded him as the head minister after his death.
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	Solomon Stoddard -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Reverend Solomon Stoddard (September 27, 1643 – February 11, (Click link for more info and facts about 1728/9) 1728/9) was the (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American colonial minister who succeeded Rev. Eleazer Mather as pastor at (Click link for more info and facts about Northampton) Northampton after Mather’s death.
		The Reverend Solomon Stoddard was one of the most important puritan religious leaders in the colonial period and was the grandfather of the famous Rev. (American theologian whose sermons and writings stimulated a period of renewed interest in religion in America (1703-1758)) Jonathan Edwards.
		Stoddard is credited with The Halfway Covenant, a relaxation of the rules of (The act of participating in the celebration of the Eucharist) Communion that accompanied a decline of piety in the (A Protestant denomination holding that each individual congregation should be self-governing) Congregational church.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/so/solomon_stoddard.htm (1514 words)

	Jonathan Edwards (theologian) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Of her piety and almost nun-like love of God and belief in His personal love for her, Edwards had known when she was only thirteen, and had written of it with spiritual enthusiasm; she was of a bright and cheerful disposition, a practical housekeeper, a model wife and the mother of his twelve children.
		Solomon Stoddard died on February 11th, 1729, leaving to his grandson the difficult task of the sole ministerial charge of one of the largest and wealthiest congregations in the colony, and one proud of its morality, its culture and its reputation.
		Edwards's grandfather and predecessor, Solomon Stoddard, had been even more liberal, holding that the Supper was a converting ordinance and that baptism was a sufficient title to all the privileges of the church.
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		Solomon Stoddard was referred to as the "Pope" of the Connecticut Valley and was revered almost as a god in that area.
		Stoddard defended his "open communion," as it came to be called, by claiming that the sacraments were a "converting ordinance." Communion was not simply a special privilege for church members; it was also a means God used to reach the unregenerate.
		Stoddard defined a church as "a society of saints joined together, according to the appointment of Christ for the constant carrying on of his public worship." He supported a Presbyterian-style of government, where the pastor was elected by the church body but then received almost ultimate power.
	www.hillsdale.edu /academics/downloads/sayersbiosolomonstoddard.doc (1854 words)

	Solomon Stoddard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Reverend Solomon Stoddard (September 27, 1643 - February 11, 1728/9) was the American colonial minister who succeeded Rev. Eleazer Mather as pastor at Northampton after Mather’s death.
		He is remembered as the author of the Halfway Covenant, his attempt to save his church from a "dying religion", and the cause of one of the biggest controversies in 18th century New England.
		Solomon Stoddard's life began in Boston in 1643.
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	Selected Families/Individuals - pafg11 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Solomon Stoddard was born on 29 May 1736 and died on 19 Dec 1827.
		Esther Stoddard was born on 2 Jun 1672 and died on 19 Jan 1770/1771.
		Solomon Stoddard was born on 4 Oct 1643 and died on 11 Feb 1729.
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	Solomon Stoddard -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Stoddard insisted that the sacrament of the (Click link for more info and facts about Lord's Supper) Lord's Supper should have been available to all who lived outwardly pious lives and had a good reputation in the community, even if they weren't full members of the church.
		He was the son of Anthony Stoddard, a wealthy Boston merchant, and Mary Downing, a niece of Governor (Click link for more info and facts about John Winthrop) John Winthrop.
		Stoddard's position was expressed through debates with (Erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers) Cotton and (Click link for more info and facts about Increase Mather) Increase Mather.
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	SOLOMON STODDARD
		The shadow of Solomon Stoddard's beliefs and charisma hung over Edwards as he preached under Stoddard's eye until his death in 1729, and continued to haunt him until he was finally dismissed from the Northampton congregation twenty years later.
		Stoddard would accept none of the Puritan rhetoric claiming that no one could discern whether or not he or she was saved.
		Solomon Stoddard was an incredible preacher, a remarkable theologian, and, most important of all, an idealist committed to his beliefs.
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	November 5: Stoddard and the half-way covenant
		Solomon Stoddard, the Congregational minister at Northampton, Massachusetts, pointed out the dilemma in Mather's Halfway Covenant.
		Stoddard's solution was to allow any well-behaved churchgoer who chose to do so to partake of the bread and wine even if he or she wasn't sure of salvation.
		Stoddard argued that if they were not saved, taking the bread and wine might help them secure saving grace or even convert them.
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	Solomon Stoddard
		Solomon graduated from Harvard College in 1662, was appointed a fellow or tutor at the college in 1666, and served as its first librarian.
		Stoddard's church became renowned for periodic revivals of piety, and his ecclesiology articulated the third phase of the Puritan experiment in New England communities.
		The second motif, Stoddard's attraction to hierarchical church governance and his disdain for laymen's presumptuousness as judges of souls, is evident in The Doctrine of Instituted Churches (1700) and An Examination of the Power of the Fraternity (1718).
	www.pragmatism.org /american/stoddard_bio.htm (1294 words)

	JONATHAN EDWARDS - LoveToKnow Article on JONATHAN EDWARDS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		His mother, a daughter of the Rev. Solomon Stoddard, of Northampton, Mass., seems to have been a woman of unusual mental gifts and independence of character.
		The years 1720 to 2726 are partially recorded in his diary and in the resolutions for his own conduct which he drew up at this time.
		On the,5th of February 1727 he was ordained minister at Northampton and assistant to his grandfather, Solomon Stoddard.
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	Elijah Woodward Stoddard, D.D.
		Solomon, the eldest son, was born October 4, 1643, died February 11, 1729, was educated at Harvard College, graduating in 1662, and was a noted minister in Northhampton, Massachusetts, being called to the church there in 1669.
		STODDARD was also an enthusiastic Christian Endeavor worker, attending the national and international Christian Endeavor conventions, bringing from them inspiration to the societies at home.
		She had a daughter by her first marriage, Eliza Platt STODDARD, born July 21, 1869, died May 19, 1886, who was a member of the household at the Succasunna parsonage for eight years, a bright, intellectual and beautiful Christian character.
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	The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut - 1740's Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening
		In 1690, Solomon Stoddard, pastor of the church in Northampton, Massachusetts from 1669 to 1729, eliminated the Halfway Covenant and allowed the non-confederates, the "halfway members" of the church, to receive Communion.
		Solomon Stoddard, for example, preached that anyone with respectable morals who performed charitable tasks within the community could be baptized into the church.
		In Windham County, separatists Elisha and Solomon Paine, who were influenced by the revival in 1721, aspired to establish a school for lay exhorters during the climax of the Awakening in 1740-1741.
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		Solomon Stoddard was born in Boston in 1643 and graduated from Harvard College in 1662.
		These include the name of the instructor for the day, as well as the scripture that was expounded in class and then applied to seventeenth-century society.
		Using what would have been the blank portions of the pages, and turning the volume upside down, Stoddard also used the volume to make notes for sermons that he preached during the early years of his ministry at Northampton, where he served until his death in 1729.
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	Solomon Stoddard
		STODDARD, Solomon, clergyman, born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1643" died in Northampton, Massachusetts, 11 February, 1729.
		His father, Anthony, came from England to Boston about 1630, was a member of the general court from 1665 till 1684, and married a sister of Sir George Downing.
		Their son Solomon was graduated at Harvard in 1662, was appointed "fellow of the house," and was the first librarian of the college from 1667 till 1674.
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	A Dawning in the New World - Christian History & Biography - ChristianityTodayLibrary.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Solomon Stoddard, the popular Puritan minister of Northampton, Massachusetts, like most other colonial New England ministers, served in one church for his lifetime.
		Stoddard was an evangelical, a “soul winner,” and had an intense desire to reach the unconverted.
		Stoddard, and the other Puritan leaders were concerned because the spiritual life of New England had greatly eroded since the time of the founding fathers.
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	Notes
		STODDARD was born in Genesee county in 1821, where he spent the greater portion of his youthful days.
		STODDARD always took an active part in all duties that came within the province of a public spirited citizen, and possessed more commendable quality than usually fall to the lot of mankind.
		He attended school in a log house during the winter months, the seats of the school room being slabs of pine logs, with two oaken pins at each end for support, and the writing desk was a smooth board fastened against the wall, the writer turning his back to the school.
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	Solomon Stoddard Biography / Biography of Solomon Stoddard Main Biography
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		One of 15 sons, and grandnephew of John Winthrop, Solomon Stoddard was born in Boston in September 1643.
		As pastor, Stoddard accepted the Puritan "Half-way Covenant," approved by the Synod of 1662, but soon came to feel it inconsistent to deny Communion to those who had been baptized but lacked a conversion "experience." Seeking to convert the unregenerate, he began teaching that Communion was itself a converting ordinance, and he extend.....
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		Historians remember Stoddard as the pioneer of the Halfway Covenant, but his ideas covered a wide variety of topics and foreshadowed much of modern theological thought.
		One man describes Stoddard with a poem: His venerable Looks let us descry He taller was than mean or common size, Of lovely Look, with majesty in's Eyes.
		As already mentioned, both Stoddard and his grandson believed that education was secondary to the experience of God's grace.
	www.hillsdale.edu /academics/downloads/shamessbiosolomonstoddard.doc (1971 words)

	Faith & Freedom
		Once the unregenerate were admitted to the church, Stoddard thought, it would be possible to bring about the necessary new birth with a steady stream of compelling preaching.
		Stoddard was himself an excellent preacher and his church prospered tremendously under the new system.
		But Stoddard was making the same error that Catholics and Anglicans had made by trying to pull all Christians under one roof, rather than permitting a thousand flowers to bloom.
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	Outlook Article - The Odyssey of Jonathan Edwards [1703-1758]
		In August 1726, his maternal grandfather, Solomon Stoddard, invited Jonathan to assist him in the church at Northampton.
		Solomon Stoddard, the 'Pope' of the Connecticut Valley, had labored in Northampton for 55 years.
		Stoddard's peculiar view of the Lord's Table was to be portentous: he invited non-communicant persons to the Table in the hope that they would be converted by means of the experience.
	www.reformedfellowship.net /articles/dennison_james_edwards_oct03_v53_n08.htm (2455 words)

	Thomas Holcombe of Connecticut - Person Page 106 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Timothy Edwards married Esther Stoddard, daughter of Solomon Stoddard and Hester Warham, on 6 November 1694.
		Solomon Ellsworth married Mary Moseley, daughter of Abner Moseley, on 27 December 1758.
		Solomon Ellsworth, son of John Ellsworth II and Anne Edwards, on 27 December 1758.
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	Soli Deo Gloria Ministries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		His father was a faithful Congregational minister in East Windsor CT. His mother was the daughter of Solomon Stoddard.
		His grandfather Stoddard was the pastor of the church at Northampton MA, but was in declining health due to his aged condition.
		Stoddard passed away within 2 years, and Edwards became the pastor until he was fired 23 years later.
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		Stoddard’s tenure of six decades was marked by a high degree of pragmatism.
		The Puritan Covenant had restricted church membership to those graced by a personal conversion experience, that is to say, “born again.” But the “born again” experience did not occur so often in those days, and church membership declined.
		Stoddard took the notion somewhat further and allowed “half-way” members to take communion, an innovation denounced by the Puritan establishment in Boston, led by Increase Mather, father of Cotton Mather and brother of Eleazar, Northampton’s first pastor.
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