The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . k place in theirearly history, so that sometimes, when they united with other familiesof the Presbyterian body, their visibility as Covenanters seemed 1798, the Reformed Presbytery of the United States of NorthAmerica was constituted in the city of Philadelphia, and has ever sincegone on to increase, though several unhappy contentions and divisionshave marked their career. In their church government, they are strict Presb
The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . k place in theirearly history, so that sometimes, when they united with other familiesof the Presbyterian body, their visibility as Covenanters seemed 1798, the Reformed Presbytery of the United States of NorthAmerica was constituted in the city of Philadelphia, and has ever sincegone on to increase, though several unhappy contentions and divisionshave marked their career. In their church government, they are strict Presbyterians, andexceeding rigid in their adherence to discipline; in doctrine they areseverely Calvinistic, and they withhold communion with all personswho in any degree differ from them. In worship they use exclusively Covenanters. 711 the Scottish version of the Psalms. They have, we believe, one ortwo periodical publications, maintain a small Theological Institution,and are making but slow progress in our land or elsewhere. Theyhave, probably, about fifty churches, and from five to six thousandmembers, chiefly in the Scotch and Irish settlements of Secoxd Dutch Reformed Church PHnADELPHiA. REFORMED PROTESTANT DUTCH CHURCH OF NORTH AMERICA.
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