THE

CREEDS AND PLATFORMS

OF

CONGREGATIONALISM

BY

WILLISTON WALKER, PH.D.

PROFESSOR IN HARTFORD THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

COPYRIGHT, 1893, BY WILListon Walker.

Press of The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, Hartford, Conn.

TO MY FATHER

GEORGE LEON WALKER

WHOSE INTEREST

IN CONGREGATIONAL HISTORY FIRST AWAKENED MY DESIRE

TO KNOW SOMETHING OF

Congregational Creeds and Platforms

AND WHOSE SYMPATHY

HAS ENCOURAGED ME THROUGHOUT THESE STUDIES

THIS VOLUME

IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED