Download or read book Magazine of New England History, 1891 (Classic Reprint) written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Magazine of New England History, 1891 If we go back to the year 1755 we shall come to the time from which to date the commencement of the history of the Baptist denomination in New Hampshire. In that year the First Baptist church, now in existence in the state, was formed in the town of Newton, in the county of Rockingham. It was a time when the standing order, as it was termed, was the dominant religious power within our borders, and to whose mandates all were expected to render obedience. In this order we find an illustration of the union of church and state. The town in connection with the church, called and settled the minister, paid his salary in money or in those things that he needed to supply his wants, built the meeting house and parsonage, levied the rates upon the inhabitants; and all were expected to pay or suffer the penalty prescribed by law. The Baptists in New Hampshire, in the last century, bore the brunt of the battle for religious toleration, as the records of the church in Newton and other churches amply attest. Near the middle of the eighteenth century a remarkable man came from England to this country and exerted a great influence in the religious world. It was George Whitefield, the friend and contemporary of John Wesley. 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.