. Andrew Benton, 1620-1683 : a sketch . lesaints, should be superseded by a Congregationalism whichrecognized a power in the minister and in associations orsynods outside of the churches to control the action of in-dividual churches. Questions of baptism, of right to full com-munion by reason of church membership in other churches,of the powers of ruHng elders, and countless other subordinatematters, entered into the discussion, but at bottom it wassimply a contest between those who sought to restore a Pres-byterian order of regulation of individual churches, and thosewho stood for the fundame
. Andrew Benton, 1620-1683 : a sketch . lesaints, should be superseded by a Congregationalism whichrecognized a power in the minister and in associations orsynods outside of the churches to control the action of in-dividual churches. Questions of baptism, of right to full com-munion by reason of church membership in other churches,of the powers of ruHng elders, and countless other subordinatematters, entered into the discussion, but at bottom it wassimply a contest between those who sought to restore a Pres-byterian order of regulation of individual churches, and thosewho stood for the fundamental do6trine that Congregation-alism rests upon the absolute independence of a companyof visible saints, or members of each particular Benton stood steadily with the minority in the FirstChurch for the old dodrine, which was the vital principle ofCongregationalism. It was only by their unflinching opposi-tion to the majority that a readion was stayed which woulcinevitably have resulted in the displacement of pure Congre-. gationalism by a form of church government that Hooker and Andrewhis followers left England to escape. It is hardly too much to bentonsay that the sturdy minority of the First Church of Hartford ,.^^saved New England Congregationalism from destrudion. In January, 1677, Andrew Benton and Andrew Benton,Jr., each received a lot of ten and a half acres in the divisionof the undivided lands which were granted by a Committeeof the Proprietors to such of the Town of Hartford as theyshall see in need of the same, and as they shall judge it maybe advantageous, upon condition that the grantees shouldnot sell the same until the lots were fenced and 17, 1669, he was chosen viewer of fences. (Hart-ford Town Votes^ p. 140.) He appears to have had chargeof the meeting-house, for the record shows that at a townmeeting December 29, 1676, the Town gave to AndrewBenton for sweeping the meetinghouse 3 pounds per an-num; September 10, 1677, he serv
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