The history and antiquities of Boston .. . s Macarty, Robert How- mas Bannister, Thomas Cooper, Benjamin ard, Joseph Sparrow, Ed. Martyn, John Fayr- Walker, Benjamin Davis, Tuuothy Clark, Ste- weather, Thos. Cooper, John Pitts, David phen Minot, William Keen, Richard Draper, Jenner, for self and Partner, Roger Kilcup, William Harris, Abraham Blush, Zechariah 1699.] BRATTLE-STREET CHURCH. 519 Church do not appear to have been the same asfor some of the others.* Mr. Benjamin Colman,a native of Boston, but then residing in England, was invited to become its Pastor. He acceptedi the invitation, an
The history and antiquities of Boston .. . s Macarty, Robert How- mas Bannister, Thomas Cooper, Benjamin ard, Joseph Sparrow, Ed. Martyn, John Fayr- Walker, Benjamin Davis, Tuuothy Clark, Ste- weather, Thos. Cooper, John Pitts, David phen Minot, William Keen, Richard Draper, Jenner, for self and Partner, Roger Kilcup, William Harris, Abraham Blush, Zechariah 1699.] BRATTLE-STREET CHURCH. 519 Church do not appear to have been the same asfor some of the others.* Mr. Benjamin Colman,a native of Boston, but then residing in England, was invited to become its Pastor. He acceptedi the invitation, and arrived here on the first ofNovember, 1699. About this time an Edificehad been completed, and on the twenty-fourthof December following he preached the first ser-mon in it. t Having, in some particulars, departed from the Cambridge Platform,and hence broken in upon the Order of the Churches, the Brattle-street Church could not be tolerated by some of the old Fathers of theChurches of New England. A Protest was therefore publicly made by. BRATTLE-STREET CHURCH. Nov. 17. them against it. This drew from the Brattle-street Church adefence of its course, which was denominated a Manifesto orDeclaration. This gave the Church the name of the ManifestoChurch, which it bore among many opposed to it for several years. JHowever, a reconciliation was brought about in a few years, and noChurch in the City, perhaps, has had less of trouble and difficulty, in-ternal and external, than this of Brattle-street, in the same period. Ithas had a succession of talented preachers, not surpassed, if paralleled,in any Church in any country. § Of these to speak separately would bea most pleasing and agreeable task, but it cannot be indulged in inthese pages. Concerning nearly all of them truthful and elegant me-morials are to be found. || That by Doctor Colman upon his colleaguePastor, Mr. William Cooper, is of surpassing excellence ; that ofthe Rev. John Clarke upon Dr. Samuel Cooper, it is enough to
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