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2 The same committee was requested "to obtain an enlargement of the Ground (if it may be) for raising the Meeting-House on, so that the House may stand in length facing towards the street." Church Records, 104.
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" of ye Authority & Rule given by Christ to the Elders,
"of ye duty & Privilege of ye Brotherhood.
" This to be summarily communicated to the church, to- gether wth. ye Relation & Belief of ye party desiring Admission.
" That no objection be made to the Receiving of any per- son professing ffaith in ye La Jesus Christ, Repentance of sin, & having a measure of scriptural knowledge of the Order & Government appointed by Christ in his Church.
" Althô he have not the persuasion which others possibly may profess, about some particulars that are matter of dis- pute among learned, Pious, & Holy men.".
The corner-stone of the New (afterwards the Old) Brick was laid June 25, 17.12. While the new meeting-house was building, some of the children were baptized at Brattle Street and some at the "South Meeting House." In the year 1712 the Election Sermon, which hitherto had been preached in First Church, was delivered in the " South Meeting-House," by Mr. Samuel Cheever, of Mar- blehead.
The following extracts are from an old " Journal " of the society, " being the first Book opened on re- building the Meeting-House, Dec', 1711." This book, still in excellent preservation, contains " the original rules respecting the pews and seats," and a full list of subscribers to the building account.
Besides subscriptions from members of the church itself, there are handsome gifts from private persons, not members, and from the following societies, namely, " South Church, Eben. Pemberton, Pastor;
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THIRD HOUSE OF WORSHIP: "THE OLD BRICK." SITE OF JOY'S BUILDING, WASHINGTON STREET, 1713 ..
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North Church, Messrs. Mathers, Pastors ; Brattle St., Benja Colman ; French Church, Mons' Dallia ; Church of England, by Gen. Francis Nicholson ; Roxbury Church, Nehemiah Walter, Pastor; from his Excellency, Gov. Dudley."
Sabbath day, May 34, 1713, first mett in y" New Brick meeting house.1 The first sermon preached in y" fore- noon by ye Revd M' Benja Wadsworth; from those words in ye 24 of Haggai : 9. verse. The glory of this latter house shall be greater then the former. The afternoon by the Revd. M' Thomas Bridge, from those words in ye 26. Psalm. 8. Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwells.
Att a Meeting of the first Church of Christ In Boston on Decem' 14" : 1711,-
Voted, That M' Jeremiah Allen be Treasurer (M' Elia- kim Hutchinson formerly chosen declining y' Service) for the Receiving and paying out of the money that shall be Raised & Collected for building of the Meeting House, and that he answer the Draughts of the Committee for y" worke or the Major part of them.
A True Coppy of-whats on file.
THO. BRIDGE, 2. Pastors. BENJAMIN WADSWORTH, S
At a Meeting of the Church, April 21, 1713, -
Voted, That D' Cook, Coll" Hutchinson, M' Addington, M' Eliakim Hutchinson, Coll Townsend, Deacon Marion,
! It was called the New Brick until the New North was built in 1714; then it became the Old Brick. Church Records, 105.
" The only durable relick of the Old Brick is deposited" in the cellar of the present meeting-house. " It is a thick piece of slate stone, about two feet long, which was taken from under a window, in the second story, on the south side of the Church. It contains, in two lines, the following record : -- BVRND To ASHES, OCTOBR 3, 1711. REBVILDING, June 25th, 1712."
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M: Wellsteed, M' Jeremiah Allen, M' Gooch, be Seators of the New Meeting house now built, & that it be left to their prudence and discretion to dispose of seats and Pews as they shall think will be most for the good and wellfare of the Church and Congregation.
A True Coppy of whats on file.
At a Meeting of the Old Church in Boston, Decem' IIth, 1714, M' Treasurer Allen haveing exhibited an Account of Receipts & Payments, and desireing that a Committee may be appointed to Audit ye same, ---
Voted, That Cap' Green & Cap' Wadsworth be a Com- mittee to examine M' Allen's Accounts, & make report to y" Church.
True Coppy, p THOMAS FOXCROFT.
1713, April 7'h : At a Meeting of the Committee ap- pointed for the Regulateing and dispossing of the Seats and Pews in the new Built Brick Meeting house by and for the first Church and Congregation in Boston.
Present :
Mess's Elisha Cooke, Decon John Marrion,
Elisha Hutchinson, William Welsteed,
Isaac Addington, Jeremiah Allen,
Eliakim Hutchinson, James Gooch.
Penn Townsend,
Upon Consideration had of what we Judge most for the present and future good and wellfare of the said Church and Congregation, And for ye better Accomodateing of the Constant Auditory, as well as others of ye neighbour- ing Congregations in the Town, and persons from other Townes, that shall attend the Worship of God in the said House at the Weekley Lecture, and upon Other Occasional solemnityes, -
We have Unanimously Agreed and Accordingly do Es- tablish the following Generall Rules and Regulations, That is to say, -
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I. That no Seat or Pew shall be appropriated to any Particular person or family, but such as at present are or hereafter shall be of the Constant auditory & Contrib- utors to ye support of the Ministry.
2. That It be recommended to and is Accordingly Ex- pected of the Proprietors of Pews that, upon Lecture days and other Occasional Solemnityes, they receive and Ac- commodate soe many strangers, or of their particular Friends invited to take a seat with them, that the Pews may be Conveniently filled.
3. That no Seat or Pew appropriated to any Person shall be Transferred or Disposed of by such person to an- other without the Approbation & Allowance of the Com- mittee for the time being, first had for the same.
But upon the Death or other removal of the Proprietor shall be in the Disposition of the Committee upon repay- ing to such Proprietor, his Executor or Administ, the first Cost and Charge by him disbursted of the making & Setting up of such Pew.
Unless, Where any of the family or Successors of the Pro- prietor removed as aforesaid are or shall be of the Constant Audience, or Contributors to y" Support of the Ministry not less than fifty-two shillings p. annum, To be paid Quarterly : In which case they shall have and Enjoy the Priviledge of Such Pew, & in their absence y Com- mittee to place suitable persons therein on the sabbath dayes.
4. That Each Person of the Constant Auditory who hath Contributed, or shall Contribute, the Sum of sixty Pounds or upwards towards the charge of Building the said House may have the Priviledge of a Pew, paying only five Pounds for the makeing and setting up the same. The rest of the Pews to be Disposed to such Persons and on such Terms as the Committee and they shall agree.
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or place without ye Committees appointment. That so Order and Decency may be Observed.
6. That all vacancys in seats from time to time hapen- ing be in ye Disposition of the Committee only, to be filled up by them.
7. That the names of the Persons, Contributers to the Charge of Building the House, and the Sums by them respectivly paid thereto, be Registered in the Book kept by the Committee for the Carrying on of that worke, of the Accompts of the Cost thereof, As also a Registry to be made therein of the Disposition of y Pews, to whome, and the sum paid by Each Person for the same.
A True Coppy.
(Signed) ELISHA HUTCHINSON, FEM HUTCHINSON, PENN TOWNSEND, J&. MARION, WM WELSSTEED, JER. ALLEN, JR., JAMES GOOCH.
Att a Meeting of ye Comittee this 18" March, 1716-17, It is unanimously agreed, Pursuant to ye order above, the fifty-two shillings to be paid p. annum Quarterly (by y' successors of any proprietors (of any Pew ) that shall be removed by death or otherwise ) be paid unto ye Dea- cons of y" Church.
By order of ye Committee, JER. ALLEN, JR.
(Signed)
March 234, 1713. Church Meeting at ye House of ye Reverend M' Bridge. The Committee appointed to Oversee the Building of the New Meeting house Ac- quainted the Church, That it had been represented to them there is an Arrear yet to be paid toward the charge of building the Ministry House in which M' Bridge lives; as also That the Ministry House wherein the Rev' M' Wads-
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worth lives is in Despair, and wants some necessary Repa- rations and Amendments to make it Tenantable and comfortable; Whereupon they had viewed the sd House, and taken ye advice of Workmen about the same, and made a Computation that it will demand One hundred and seventy Pounds to make ye Necessary Reparations and amend- ments of the said House, and to Discharge the arrear for M' Bridges House.
Reporting likewise That they well hoped when ye Ac- compts of y" Charge for the Meeting House are made up there will remain an Overplus of the money Contributed to that use.
Voted, That the said Overplus be applyed to ye uses aforest of the ministry Houses.
Voted, That what ,that Overplus shall fall short, the Church will make up what is wanting when it shall appear, by the Acco" of the charge of the ministry Houses, how much will be needed.
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BOSTON, Decemr 27th, 1715.
Wee, the Subscribers, being appointed by a vote of the first Church in Boston, bareing date the 23th of March, 1713-14, to be Audittors to Examin the Accompts of Jeremiah Allen, Treasurer to the Stock for the Building the New Brick Meeting house. Have accordingly Exam- ined the same, & find the receiveings of Subscriptions amounting to forty-one hundred fifty-one Pounds four
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Shillings and three pence to be right cast, & the Pay- ments thereof amounting unto Three thousand Eight hun- dred forty-nine Pounds Eight Shillings & one penny, being ye Cost of the Brick meeting house, wch payments are all vouch't & cast up right. And by the desire and request of the said Treasurer Allen have Examined the Accompt of Twenty Pounds in Arreares to the house be- longing to said Church, wherein y Revd M' Thomas Bridge, late one of the pastors of said Church, did dwell. As alsoe ye Accompt of ye repaires of the Churches house, wherein ye Rev' M' Benj" Wadsworth now dwells, Amount- ing to Three hundred fifty-four Pounds five Shillings and four pence, to be vouchers for ye same & right cast.
Brick Meeting House. DR. & s. d.
To ye Cost of ye Brick inceting house . 3849 8 1 To ye rest in Stock in ye
Treasurers hands . 301 16 2 4151 43
Contra. CR. # Subscription recd. . . 4151 4 3 s. d.
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. To Mr Bridge's house 20 0 0 { ye above Ballance . . . 301 16 2 To M' Wadsworth's house 354 5 4 | V Ball. due to Jeremiah Al- len, Treasure, to clear debt 72 9 2
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374 5 4 HENRY DERING, JOHN LEGG.
" In the five years ending with 1715, one hundred and forty-six persons were admitted to communion, ninety-six of whom were females. During the same time eighty-six boys and ninety-six girls were publickly baptized."1
Early in the year 1717 Thomas Foxcroft, a young
1 Emerson's History of First Church, 165.
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man not yet of age, was invited to preach once a week as assistant to the present pastor. His reply accepting the offer of settlement, made March 6, 1716-17, considering the youth of the writer, is per- haps worth transmitting in full : -
CAMBR., Mar. 23, 1716/7. To ye old or first church of Christ in Boston :
REVEREND, HON", AND BELOVED, - It hath pleased ye great Head of ye Church (who turneth y' hearts of his people as y' Rivers of waters, and doth wondrous things which none can search out ye reasons of) to Incline you to make choice of so unfit a Person as myself to settle in y' office of a Pastor to y' Flock. I am deeply sensible how unworthy I am of ye dignitic, - how every way unequal to y" duties of y' holy function, the high calling weh is of God, excellent and difficult. As Indeed who is sufficient for these things, of ye selves? But our sufficiencie is of God. Humbly therefore depending upon y" grace of our Lord Jesus christ, without whom we can do nothing; as having good hope in y' sweet and precious promise ( Mat. 28. 20), Lo, I am with you allway to y end of y world, I do now with all Gratitude and Humilitie accept your call as ye voice of God; and do solemnly promise and resolve (if ye Lord permit, and account me worthy, putting me into y" Ministry ) to make it y' Grand Study & Imploy- ment of my life to preach y" unsearchable riches of Christ UNTO YOU, according to y" commandment of ye ever- lasting Gospel, for y obedience of faith, for y" Perfecting of y" Saints, for ye edifying y' Body of Christ, so long as it shall please God to continue me among you ; y'ye might know ye love which I have more abundantly to you all. And now under a just view of the Importance, weight, and Difficultie of y" awfull work of watching for souls, & feed- ing y" Flock of Christ, I bescech you, Brethre , y' ye strive
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(together with me) in your prayers to God for me, yt those Gifts and graces may be multiplied upon me, in ye Dili- gent exercise whereof I may approve myself a ready Scribe, well Instructed to the Kingdom of God, and fur- nished to every good work; y' I may Come unto you with Joy by ye Will of God, and may with you be refreshed; that I may find mercie to be faithfull to ye Interests of Gods Glory, and be wise to win souls; y' my service may be accepted of ye saints, and y' I may be unto God a sweet savour in Christ, y' so I may give up my Account wth Joy to y" chief Shepherd at his Appearing; and ye Lord grant unto us all y' we may find mercie of y Lord in y' day.
I am Your Affectionate Friend & Servant, THOMAS FOXCROFT.
After his dismissal from the church in Cambridge Foxcroft was admitted a member of First Church, Oct. 27, 1717, and ordained to the office of pastor, November 20. The following ministers took part in the ceremony : " Dr. Cotton Mather began ye exer- cise with prayer; Mr. Foxcroft preach'd from Coll. I. 28, 29; Mr. Colman pray'd after sermon ; Dr. In- crease Mather, Dr. Cotton Mather, Mr. Colman, Mr. Sewal were desired with our Pastor Wadsworth to Impose hands; Mr. Wadsworth gave ye charge, pray- ing both before and after it; Dr. Increase Mather gave ye right hand of fellowship. The whole affair was manag'd peaceably and quietly ; I think there was much of God appearing in ye matter ; and I pray y' it may be followed with long and rich blessings." Mr. Foxcroft was not quite one-and-twenty years old when thus ordained.1
1 Church Record, Io8.
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LIFE OF FOXCROFT.
Thomas Foxcroft was a grandson of Daniel Fox- croft, Mayor of Leeds, Co. York, in 1666, member of the Artillery Company in 1679, and imprisoned in April, 1689, as an adherent of Andros, "yet does not seem to have suffered permanent unpopularity." He was a son of Colonel Francis Foxcroft, warden of King's Chapel in 1689.
His mother was Elizabeth Dantforth, daughter of Governor Dantforth. The children of Francis and Elizabeth were Francis, born Jan. 26, 1685 (H. U.), 1712, and Thomas (the subject of this notice), born Feb. 26, 1697 (H. U.), 1714.
" Thomas was intended by his father for an Epis- copal clergyman ; " but after mature deliberation, and consulting with the Rev. Nehemiah Walter of Roxbury, a man of great intellectual force, the son at last determined to follow in the footsteps of his mother's family.
After studying theology for about three years, he received his invitation to preach in First Church with a view to a settlement. Although a mere youth when called upon by that society to assist Wadsworth, he showed no lack of ability to assume the trust. When the senior pastor removed to Cambridge, in 1725, he was left for two years as the only settled minister of the congregation. After Chauncy became associated with him in 1727, no change took place for forty-two years.
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During their joint ministry the most perfect har- mony prevailed between them. Although holding opposite views on the subject of religion and revi- vals, no variance ever arose between them at any time. Each allowed the other to express his thoughts as fully and freely as if they were in en- tire accord.
When the Episcopalian controversy broke out, Foxcroft, as might be expected from early training and associations, took an unusual interest in the result. As a contribution in opposition to the pro- posed establishment he wrote, in 1729, a " treatise characterized by uncommon vigor, which at the time attracted great attention, entitled ' The Ruling and Ordaining Power of Congregational Bishops or Presbyters Defended.'"
His sympathy with Whitefield in his attempts to promote a revival called forth a sermon, which was published in 1740, "occasioned " (as he says) by the labours and visits of Mr. Whitefield; and in 1745, an " Apology" in his behalf.' To this treatise an anonymous writer made a sharp response.
In 1736 Mr. Foxcroft was attacked by paralysis, which left him in an enfeebled condition. He con-
1 In the Library of Harvard College there is a collection of Foxcroft's Sermons bound up in a single volume. Among them two at least are worthy of notice, namely, the sermon preached at the funeral of his mother, who died July 4, 1721 (to which is added a poem, by Rev. John Dantforth), published in Boston in 1721, which pays a beautiful tribute to her memory; and the ser- mon after the Earthquake, Nov. 23, 1727 : "The voice of the Lord from the Deep Places of the Earth." Mr. Foxcroft's sermon at his own ordination is in a volume in the Mass. Hist. Soc. Library.
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tinued to preach until the day of his death, but by no means as effectively as before his illness. He died June 18, 1769, almost seventy-three years old, and in the fifty-second year of his ministry. Dr. Chauncy preached a funeral sermon, which was published. In a letter written by Dr. Chauncy to President Stiles the year before Mr. Foxcroft's death, describing some of the most prominent men in New England at that period, he thus refers to one with whom, as has been stated, he differed widely in opinion : -
" You may wonder I have not mentioned Mr. Foxcroft, as he is my colleague. It may justly be said of him that his powers are much beyond the common size. Few have been greater students in Divinity. His knowledge is pretty much confined within this circle. His reasoning faculty, before his last sickness, was in a degree of eminence; and few had a greater command of words, nor was he wanting in liveliness of imagination. He has written and printed several very valuable things, besides sermons, that will reflect honour upon him in the opinion of all capable judges."
In his funeral sermon Dr. Chauncy says : -
" He was a real good Christian; a partaker of the Holy Ghost; uniform in his walk with God in the way of his commandments, though, instead of trusting that he was righteous in the eye of a strict law, he accounted himself an unprofitable servant; fixing his dependence, not 'on his own worthiness, not on any works of righteousness which he had done, but on the mercy of God and the atoning blood and perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ. Ilis writings evince a clearness of perception, copiousness
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of invention, liveliness of imagination, and soundness of judgment. They bear testimony also to his unfeigned piety."
" Mr. Foxcroft had a son, Samuel, who was grad- uated at Harvard College in 1754; was ordained pastor of the church in New Gloucester, Me., Jan. 10, 1765; was dismissed in January, 1792; and died, much respected and lamented, March 9, 1807, aged seventy-two."
The church held various business meetings about this time, as appears by the records; and on Jan. 19, 1718-19, " Voted, That for ye future ye Dea- cons pay to our Ministers, M' Wadsworth and M" Foxcroft, six pounds ten shillings a week ; y' is to say, three pounds five shillings a week to each of them." 1
By a vote of the preceding year the deacons were instructed to keep regular accounts of all their deal- ings with the church funds. Emerson writes of the various religious associations in Boston, some of which were in existence at this date, as follows:"-
" There is a certain indefinable union among all the Congregational churches in the metropolis. Their minis- ters are united in holding an association at each other's houses, every other Monday, in supporting a Theological Library," in preaching a weekly lecture, and a quarterly
1 Church Records, 109.
2 History of First Church, 168.
3 " This institution," which was not founded until June 1, 1807, "invites, however, and receives subscriptions from both clergy and laity of all denomi- nations." - EMERSON'S History of First Church, 168, note. [ It formerly occupied the vestry of Chauncy Street meeting-house.]
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charity . lecture; and the several congregations tacitly agree in attending these lectures, and favoring these institutions."
On March 4, 1720, an ante-communion or pre- paratory lecture was established. Dr. Colman, of Brattle Street, preached the first sermon. First Church and Brattle Street united in sustaining this lecture on Friday afternoon, once a month, for about a century. Federal Street, New South, and Purchase Street then joined with the older churches in sustaining a similar lecture at Federal Street on Thursday evening. The latter course was discontinued in the summer of 1837.
On June 16, 1725, the church met and solemnly considered a message from the Overseers of Har- vard College, making choice of their minister, Benjamin Wadsworth, for President. After some deliberation he was allowed "to accept the call," with much regret expressed on both sides at the separation.2
Notwithstanding his removal Wadsworth kept up his connection with the church by preaching for a time as usual, as the following order will show: -
" Whereas the Deacons did not see cause, for the three last Sabbaths on which our late Revd Pastor, M' Wads- worth, preach'd to us, to carry him what had been his weekly salary ; and whereas they have omitted this season to pay him his usual wood-money: Therefore ordered,
1 Church Records, no. Lothrop's History of Brattle Street Church, 66, 67.
2 Church Records, 114.
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