The history of Charlestown, Massachusetts . lpreacher. i Church Records. ~ Mass. Archives. 3 Church Records. 4 Savages Winthrop, vol. ii. p. 330. HISTORY OF CHARLESTOWN. 133 Mr. Allen was the author of several works, the titles of theseare as follows : —An Invitation to Thirsty Sinners to come totheir Saviour: The way of the Spirit in bringing Souls to Christ:The Glory of Christ set forth, with the Necessity of Faith; inseveral sermons. A Chain of Scripture Chronology, from theCreation to the Death of Christ, in seven periods,— which hasbeen much A letter written by him, relating t
The history of Charlestown, Massachusetts . lpreacher. i Church Records. ~ Mass. Archives. 3 Church Records. 4 Savages Winthrop, vol. ii. p. 330. HISTORY OF CHARLESTOWN. 133 Mr. Allen was the author of several works, the titles of theseare as follows : —An Invitation to Thirsty Sinners to come totheir Saviour: The way of the Spirit in bringing Souls to Christ:The Glory of Christ set forth, with the Necessity of Faith; inseveral sermons. A Chain of Scripture Chronology, from theCreation to the Death of Christ, in seven periods,— which hasbeen much A letter written by him, relating to thepreaching of the gospel among the Indians, may be found in Mas-sachusetts Historical Collections, vol. xxxiv. p. 1 Non-Conformist Memorial, vol. iii. p. 11. 2 Rev. Thomas Allen, (see p. 75,) probably married the widow ofJohn Harvard. They had in this country, 1, Mary, born January 3l,1640 : 2, Sarah, born August 8, 1641, buried April 21, 1642 ; 3, Elizabeth,born and died, 1642 : 4, Mercy, born and died, 1646, They had also a. FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH,BUILT 1833. 134 HISTORY OF CHARLESTOWN. CHAPTER XVII. Biographical Sketches. — Increase Nowell. — Robert Sedgwick. —Thomas Graves. — Francis Willoughby Richard Russell. Increase Nowell was the most distinguished of those who re-mained in town on the dispersion of Winthrops company. He wasrelative of Alexander Nowell, dean of St. Pauls, in Elizabethsreign; a Patentee ; elected an assistant of the Massachusetts Com-pany in England, October 20, 1629; came over in the Arbellawith Winthrop; and on the organization of the first church, waschosen ruling elder. But being also an assistant, the questionarose whether a magistrate ought to be a ruling elder 1 It wassubmitted to the Salem and Plymouth churches, which gave theopinion, that a ruler in the church ought not to be a ruler inthe state at the same time. Mr. Nowell, accordingly, relinquish-ed the office of elder. He held the office of magistrate until his dea
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