Half-Way

It began to happen only a generation or two later with the Half-Way Covenant, and within a century and a half had developed a full head of steam under proto-Unitarians and proto-Universalists like Charles Chauncy and Jonathan Mayhew.

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Six years later Edwards wrote a preface to his "An Humble Inquiry into the Qualifications for Full Communion in the Visible Church of God," a treatise severely condemning the Half-Way Covenant, and urging the revival of the early personal account of conversion.

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Though public opinion favored the Half-Way Covenant, the practice of the churches was controlled by their exclusive membership, and, unless

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The colonists compromised upon this dual membership of the Half-Way Covenant.

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In his "Qualifications for Full Communion," 1749, he again dwelt upon the same theme; but his main purpose was to uproot the Half-Way Covenant practice and the

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Half-Way Covenant and the Stoddardean view of the Lord's supper.

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Half-Way Rock is a water-washed mass of porphyritic stone, the top about twenty feet above high tide, shaped much like a pyramid, and a few years since was capped with a conical granite beacon, strongly built and riveted down, but which had been two-thirds washed away by the tremendous surf of the easterly storms.

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"I reprobate," he writes, "the idea of a Half-Way Covenant, or sealing of such a covenant."

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But when controversy broke out again in the Hartford church, in 1666, because of the baptism of some children, it was found that in the interval of eleven years those who favored the Half-Way covenant had increased in numbers in the church, [ad] and were rapidly gaining throughout the colony, especially in its northern half.

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Half-Way Covenant as supplementary to the Cambridge Platform of faith and discipline.

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