1797 SAMUEL BLATCHFORD. Early American Defense of Presbyterian Ordination. Exposition The enlargement of [our] territory

The enlargement of [our] territory can never be an object of pursuit

in the best manner we can

contra the Hicksites

minister of God's word

He was very wroth

1797 SAMUEL BLATCHFORD. Early American Defense of Presbyterian Ordination. Exposition The enlargement of [our] territoryVery early American defense of Presbyterian ordination over and against the Congregational model which was taking the ascendency, being much more like the organizational documents and governmental structure of the new Nation. Samuel Blatchford. The Validity of Presbyterian Ordination Maintained in a Letter to the Rev. William Smith, D. D. Occasioned by the Publication of his Sermon, Preached at the Consecration of Bishop Jarvis, at New Haven, on the