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Great Awakening will best set forth the confusion arising, the difficulties between Old and New Lights, and the hardships of the
The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut Maria Louise Greene
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A candidate was agreed upon; but in a few months the New Lights became dissatisfied with him because of his approval of the Saybrook system of church government, his acceptance of the Half-Way Covenant, and other opinions.
The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut Maria Louise Greene
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But in 1757, the New Lights gained the majority both in church and society, a majority of _one_.
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Conciliatory acts and measures such as these originated with both the Old and New Lights, and did much to lessen the division between them.
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Connecticut, the Old Lights held the political as well as the ecclesiastical control until, in the process of time, the New Lights gained an influential vote in the Assembly.
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In the colony itself a change was taking place through which the college was to go over to the side of the New Lights.
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It had also given explicit directions for the supervision of the schools throughout the colony and of their masters 'orthodoxy, [116] and had advised Yale to take especial care that her students should not be contaminated by the New Lights.
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Their treatment opened the question as to whether the steadily increasing numbers of New Lights were to lose for their children the benefit of the college, that they helped to support.
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The New Lights preferred imprisonment to the payment of taxes assessed for the benefit of the First
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A meeting in 1743 of the Consociation of Windham (to whose jurisdiction the Canterbury church belonged), together with a council of New Lights, brought temporary peace.
The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut Maria Louise Greene
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