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ye Desires of Joseph Rix, Samuel Sprague, John Peirce, to be dismissed from their Relation to us, in Order to their imbody- ing with Brethren from other Churches, for ye worship of God in New Boston; & their prayer was granted ; & ye next day the Pastors gave them Letters of Dismission. - NB. Within a Year or two afterward they returned to us of their own Accord.
Tuesday Novem. 7. 1738 The Congregation at their Meeting voted to allow sixty pounds p Annum Rent to ye Pastors for their Houses : had some Discourse about a new Version of ye Psalms to be used in ye Church; to have a Collection to defray ye Charges of ye years past, & to adjourn to Decem. 19. / Ye Moneys Collected were 135"
Decem 19. Met according to Adjournment, & I proposed to ye Brethren to have Collections on Dayes of Fasting & Thanksgiving, wch was voted for ye year to come. And a Committee was appointed to cons: of the Proposal of a new Version of ye Psalms, & when they had done so to call a Meeting. Also voted a Collection ye Sabbath after next in way of Gift to ye Pastors.
Decem. 31. Collected 1441 & divided to ye two Pastors.
Septem. 10. 1739. The Committee appointed to consider of a Change of Version of the Psalms, made their Report in the Negative, that at present they could not advise to any new Version. The Salaries were voted as usual, & a Committee raised to consider of ye most likely Methods to raise our Contributions.
Deacon Parker made a Motion, that some more sutable Person might be desired to set ye Psalm, it was referred to ye Pastors & standing Committee to advise on it. Ye Com- mittee, M' Palmer, Chh Treasurer, Coll Wendell, M' Bill, Maj. Sewal, M' Fairweather.
Then ye Meeting adjourned to Tuesday 27. of November next. NB. The Meetings always opened & concluded with prayer.
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Soon after ye Committee met & applied to our good Brethren M: Macom & M' Johnson, & prevailed with 'em to sit together & lead us in ye Ordinance of Singing.
Novem. 27. Congregation met according to Adjournm't & voted, y! ye Moneys to be collected this week at ye Thanks- giving, be disposed of by ye Deacons, to pay ye forty pounds Arrears for ye year past; & ye Remainder for ye poor of ye Church & Congregation.
Voted also a Collection ye next Day of fasting & Prayer, ye Moneys to be disposed of by ye next Congregation Meeting.
Novem. 1740. Ye Congregation met again & voted a Col- lection on the Thanksgiving, to be divided between ye Pastors, wch amounted to 130" & was divided 65! to each.
Novem. 4. 41. Ye same Vote renewed, & a Collection also on ye next Fast, to be disposed of as ye Congregation shal direct.
Sept' 13. 1742. the Salary raised to Eight pounds a Week, & ye House rent to 70" p An: & a Collection for ye Ministers ye next Thanksgiving Day.
Nov' 15. 1743. Salary & Rent voted as before; & a Col- lection for ye Ministers on ye next Thanksgiving day. When about 105. pounds were Collected.
Boston. Decem' 26. 1743. It is awful to me to enter on this Leaf ye sudden Death of ye Revª M: Cooper, who has been with me in ye Pastoral Office twenty seven Years, & a Pastor after Gods own Heart unto this Church.
On Tuesday Dec' 5. he complain'd of some dull heavy pain & Disorder in his Head; never ye less was at ye Evening Lecture wth us; but kept House (as I also did) Wednesday Thursday Fryday. On Fryday Evening I heard he had not been well, & on Saturday I went to see him, & found him
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on his Bed, in his Cloaths, easie & cheerful, & he told me M' Foxcroft wd preach for him ye next Day.
On ye Lords-day I preached in ye Morning & gave Thanks for ye Lightness of his Indisposition in my Prayer for ye Re- moval of it. But before Noon ye Doctors found the threatning Symptoms of a lethargic or Apoplectic Kind, & immediately went into ye use of proper Medicine to prevent the Increase of them; but with little or no effect.
I inform'd ye Congregation hereof in ye Begining of ye After- noon Exercise, & ye chapter that fell in Course happed to be as if chosen on the Occasion; & in ye close of ye Exercise I desir'd ye Church to stay, & said to 'em, that it became us early to have a Day of Prayer wherein to cry unto God for his invaluable Life, y: by his holy Will it might be spared unto us : - while I was thus speaking, Coll Wendel came in from M' Coopers house, whither he went as ye Congregation broke up, & bro't us Word that ye symptoms increas'd so much, that we must meet ye next Morning, wch was immediately agreed on, & ye Deacons went to ye five Senior Ministers, who early came ye next Morning, & by ten in ye morning there was a great Assembly; M' Checkly began with Prayer, I preached from Acts [ix. 34.] Eneas, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole, & M' Webb closd with Prayer. p. m. M' Prince began with Prayer, D' Sewal preached from & M' Foxcroft clos'd with Prayer. There was much of the Presence of God with us, & never was there seen in Boston (it may be) a like Assembly of Silent Weepers.
But at Evening ye Symptoms were more threatning, & at six on Tuesday Morn. he expired & slept in Christ. The Con- gregation met that Afternoon & voted to bury him by a Subscription, wch presently rose to nine hundred pounds; They put his whole Family & me into Mourning, & gave Rings to all ye Ministers of ye Association.
On Thursday ye Funeral was attended with great Solemnity. The Church & Congregation walked before ye Herse, two & two; & never was there a greater Mourning thro' ye Town & Country. The Ministers that bare ye Pall & ye Deacons of
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ye Chh had mourning Gloves & Hat-bands; wch was new to us, but very decent. The Salary was voted to be continued to ye Family, till further Order.
On ye Lords-day following D' Sewal preached with us in ye morning on these words, for if we believe that Jesus died & rose again, even so them also &c
Ye next L. Day M' Prince, - I have fought a good fight, I have finished my &c.
My own funeral Discourse was on Jesus his weeping in his Way to ye Grave of Lazarus. Ye Committee of ye Church asked me to print it at their own charge.
Y: rest of ye Ministers followed in their Course, preaching with great affection & praying for us, to our great Comfort & I trust Edification. - I thank God, now at two Months End, I have found strength renewed for ye doubled Work & Care wch this Bereavment hath called me to. - March 30. very weak & infirm almost ye whole of this Months, & wearisome Nights of Catarhe & Cough are appointed me : M' Professor M: Apple- ton & M' President Holyoke are taking their Turns with us.
April 22. Ye Church voted that Tuesday ye 15 of May be kept in prayer wth fasting to seek ye Divine Conduct in ye Choice of another Pastor, in Gods Time & Way.
May 16. Accordinly Yesterday was religiously observed by us; M' Prince began in ye Morning with Prayer, I preached from ye Prayer of Moses to ye Lord, ye God of ye Spirits of all Flesh, to set a Man over ye Congregation : M' Gee closed with Prayer; In ye Afternoon Exercise, M' Checkly prayed, D' Sewal preached, - If my words abide in you, ask w you wil &c: M: Welsted closed y: Exercise.
August 6. 1744. The Congregation met & voted ye raising my Salary to nine pounds p Week; & adjourn'd to ye first Tuesday in September, then to take into their Consideration, - " whether they wil come into ye Nomination of some Candidates to preach statedly each his Month, in order to our coming at ye End of three or four Months into ye Election of one of them
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into ye Pastoral Office? M: Whalley, M: Vinal, M' Langdon & M: Sam" Cooper were named by me to ye Brethren.
Collections were also voted at ye Thanksgiving & Fasts of ye Year for ye poor of ye Chh. & Congregation, to be dis- tributed by ye Pastor & Deacons & Committee as they shal think good.
Septem: 4. 1744. The Brethren of ye Church & Congre- gation met according to Adjournment, & ye Meeting being open'd by Prayer, they after a little Discourse on the Proposal made by Me at ye last Meeting; agreed to write their Votes, yea or nay.
Whether we shal now come into a Nomination of three Persons, to preach each his Month wh us? reserving to our Rev. Pastor ye Liberty of asking M: Samuel Cooper to preach also, if he find himself inclined to begin his Evangelical Ser- vices.
[In margin: 52. Yea : 13. Nay.]
Accordingly every One wrote their Votes, which being openly counted (besides near twenty for some other Persons) 54 were found for M' John Whalley, 61. for M: William Vinal, 59 for M: Samuel Langdon.
Voted that at ye Expiration of ye Months aforesaid, the R. Pastor, with the Advice of ye Deacons & the Committee of the Congregation, do call another Meeting of the Church & Congregation.
Sept: 5. I wrote to each of ye Gent" Candidates informing them of ye Votes of ye Congregation respecting their serving us each a Month; & requesting their Compliance with said Vote: & also to M' Samuel Cooper: - Who all willingly com- plied & fulfilled their Months, to the great Acceptance & Esteem both of ye Pastor & ye Congregation.
Decem: 26. Ye Committee & ye Deacons met at my House, & unanimously advised to ye Calling a Meeting of ye Chh & Congregation ye Monday following, at ten in ye Morning, " Then to advise & determine whether they wil proceed to ye Electing One into ye Pastoral Office, or what they may judge further
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necessary thereunto. - They were accordingly notified on ye following Lords Day, & all desired to attend ye Meeting with previous Prayer for ye gracious Direction of God on so important an Occasion.
Accordingly ye next Morning, Decem. 31. ye Brethren met at ye Hour appointed, a very full Meeting, of no less than 1 38 in number; when having open'd ye Meeting with a Prayer suted to ye Occasion, I spake to 'em in ye following Words,
"Honoured & dearly Beloved, - You well remember that at your last Meeting, the fourth Day of Sept' past, you nominated & chose four Persons, to preach each his Month with us; who have accordingly done so; every One of them appearing now to you, I suppose, by ye Grace & Gifts of God in them, very like to prove great Blessings in their Generation. - At ye Meet- ing aforesaid you were pleased also to vote your Assembling again as on this Day; & I thank God for ye Opportunity of seeing you together; with a happy Prospect of Unity & Comfort in ye great important Point that we are met upon. - The Year of our Mourning, under ye holy bereaving Hand of God upon us, is now finished. - We have from one Lords-day to another, as well as on our sett & solemn Dayes of Humiliation & Prayer, been supplicating ye great Head of ye Church to repair ye Breach, in his own Time & Way, & give us another Pastor after his own Heart, gifted & spirited like ye dear Deceased; & I hope ye Gracious Saviour has such a One in store for you & your Children, your Families & Housholds.
Thro' ye Patience of God I continue with you to this Day, under ye growing Infirmities of Age; Never ye less having obtained Help of God I have not failed, in one Administration or other, I think, to minister every Lords Day; & I thank God to your kind Acceptance.
And if I may now live to see you united in your Choice of another Pastor, as I once saw your worthy Predecessors with not a few of your Selves here present, I shal rejoice & give Thanks with you all; Yea might this be ye Day, it wil be a gladsome one to me.
I need not repeat ye Names of ye young Gentlemen who
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have been preaching to you at your Request; Mess's Whalley, Vinal, Langdon & Cooper : - "Show Lord wch thou hast chosen ! & lead us in thy Truth & teach us! in Paths of Righteousness for thy Name sake; in ye Determinations of this Morning. Amen.
It was then taken into Consideration, Whether we were now ready to proceed to ye Election of One into ye Pastoral Office with me; & agreed that ye Question should be put, & ye Answer given by lifting up their Hands ; - whereupon almost every Hand were lift up with an appearing great Alacrity & Gravity.
Accordingly the Assembly proceeded to write their Votes, wch was done, & they were given in at ye Table, number'd & open'd in ye presence of all, & found one hundred, thirty & eight ; out of which one hundred & sixteen were for M' Samuel Cooper, Son of the Rev. M: Cooper deceased.
The Brethren then named a Committee, with ye Deacons of ye Church, to wait on M: Cooper & inform him in their Name of this their almost unanimous Election of Him into ye Pastoral Office over them : by Name Jacob Wendell Esq', James Allen Esq', William Tyler Esq', Hugh Hall Esq', William Downes Esq', John Erwin Esq', & M' Thomas Hancock; who accord- ingly carried the Vote to M: Cooper written & attested by ye Pastor.
And from this Time M: Cooper preach'd to us himself, or supplied ye Pulpit.
March 7. 1745. He gave his Answer in Writing, wch I read to ye Congregation ye Lords-day after,
To yo Revª D: Colman, to be communicated to yº Church & Congregation.
"Since it has pleased God, in whose Hands ye Hearts of all are, to incline me (as I wd humbly hope) in some good Measure from proper Views & Motives to devote my Self to ye service of the Sanctuary ; & whereas in his Sovereign Providence he has led this Hond Church & Congregation to call me into the Relation of a Pastor with them ; After having seriously deliberated on ye matter, & taken ye Advice of my
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Revd Fathers in ye Ministry, with humble Prayer to God for his gracious Direction in so important an Affair ; The Call has appeared to me so clear & strong that I dare not refuse it :
I do therefore hereby testify my Acceptance of this Your Invitation, not without a sense of ye Greatness & Importance of ye Ministerial Work & of my own Weakness & Insufficiency, & so a Dependance on ye Grace of God which alone can be sufficient for me ; Nor yet without great Incouragment from ye Unaninity with wch you were led into this Determination ; the Interest I trust I have in your Affections as well as Prayers ; & ye great Helps I am like to receive from ye Advice & Instruction of your Venerable Pastor, who has been & I doubt not wil continue to be a Father to me : but above all from the Promise our Saviour has made to his Ministers of his Presence with them to ye End of ye World.
But yet considering my Years, & great Want of Study & Experience I must ask of you, as you know I have a dear & engaging Example for it, that my solemn Separation to ye Work of ye Ministry may be deferred for a Year, & that in that time I may not be expected to preach but once in a fortnight, if it should please God to strengthen our Aged Pastor as he has hitherto done, & you think it convenient to grant me this Liberty - And now my Fathers & Brethren, entreating you to continue that Candour & Goodness you have hitherto shown me, & asking y: your Prayers (wch I am confident I have) that ye Gifts & Graces of ye Holy Spirit ye Mantle of Elijah may rest upon me &c., I am your Servant in our Lord
SAMUEL COOPER.
I then said to the Church, -" you have ye Pleasure, my Brethren, to hear ye Answer of M' Cooper to the Call you have given him to ye Pastoral Office over You in ye Affirmative, that God has graciously inclin'd him to accept it; & that accord- ingly he gives Himself first unto ye Lord & unto you by ye Will of God, to be ye Servant of your Souls for Jesus sake all ye dayes of his Life.
You wil therefore now look upon him as your own in ye most special, sacred, spiritual & endearing Relation, & I pray God he may long & alwayes come to you in ye Fulness of ye Blessing of ye &c.
As to what he proposes respecting our excusing him from a constant preaching to us every Lords-day for ye present year, & that his Ordination may not be bro't on in it ; as it must be
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own'd to be a modest & prudent Request in him, becoming his tender Age, so I doubt not you wil readily yeild to his Desire, as far as ye Infirmities & Weakness of my Age wil permit you ; & further he wil not desire. - But ye Consideration of that matter wil, it is likely within a little time, come before you in a Meeting of ye Congregation.
July. 19. 1745. The Honª Committee of ye Chh. & Congre- gation, with ye Deacons, were desired to meet at my House this Evening & when met I proposed to them my Desire that M: Coopers Ordination might be bro't on before Winter; my own Infirmities being so many that I tho't it my Duty to propose it, & ye true Interest of ye Chh. & Congregation that it should be so. After some Discourse had upon ye thing proposed, they every One present concurred in & advised to it.
The Time then was also considered, & ye Month of October was fixed on as ye most sutable. It was agreed that I should accordingly call a Meeting of the Church & Congregation within a few Weeks, to know their Mind, having first signified to M' Cooper ye Mind of ye Committee.
Sept. I. I notified a Meeting of ye Brethren of ye Chh & Congregation on ye Premises, wch was had on Tuesday, ye 3ª, when they unanimously voted to grant M: Cooper his Request, & defer his Ordination till ye Spring of ye next Year.
Nov: 18. Ve Brethren of ye Congregation held their annual Meeting; & voted a Gift of one hundred pounds to D' Colman out of ye Moneys now in ye Hand of ye Deacons, on the Account of his extraordinary Expenses in ye Funerals of ye late years in his Family: & that M: Coopers Salary from ye Day of his accepting ye Call to ye Pastoral Office among us be made up eight pounds each Lords Day; & that there be Col- lections for ye poor of ye Church & Congregation on ye Annual Dayes of Thanksgiving & Fasting: A Meeting full of Love & Union.
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Decem' 5. being ye Annual Day for Thanksgiving ; ye Col- lection for ye poor amounted to 172 pds.
March. 13. being ye Day annual Day for Fasting & Prayer, the Collection for ye poor amounted to 132 pounds.
On ye 23. I propos'd & call'd a Congregation Meeting, on Tuesday 25. to consider of a Day for ye Ordination of M' Samuel Cooper, ye Pastor Elect.
On ye 25th the Congregation met, & the Meeting being op'ned with Prayer by ye Pastor, after more than an hours Debate, voted
I. That ye Ordination of M' Samuel Cooper be in ye Month of May ensuing, by ye Will of God, & on Wednesday ye 21. of said Month; the Rev. Pastor desiring M' Cooper, in ye Name of this Meeting, on ye second or third Lords-day from this Date to give a Confession of his Faith in ye public Assembly.
2. Voted at ye Request & Desire of ye Revª Pastor D' Colman, That in Case he find himself disabled by ye Infirmi- ties of Age, or bodily Weakness, to preside in ye proposed Ordi- nation, pray & give ye Charge, with ye Imposition of ye Hands of ye Presbytery, then that he be desired to request ye Revd D: Sewal in the Name of the Church to preside & lead in that part of the Solemnity.
3. That ye Deacons of ye Church, with ye standing Com- mittee, be desired to make ye necessary Provisions, & order matters for ye Entertainment of ye Council of Churches when convened on this great Occasion.
4. That the Revd Associated Pastors of Boston & Charles- town with ye Churches under their Care, & ye Revd & Hond Church of Christ in Cambridge under ye Pastoral Care of ye Revª M: Appleton, be timely wrote to, & their Presence & Assistance by their Elders & Messengers be desired on this Occasion.
5. That Mess's Thomas Hubbard, Thomas Savage, Moses Dishon and Thomas Maccarty, Brethren of this Church, be
TOTICE is hereby given, that there will be a Meet- ing of the Society under the paftoral Care of the Rev'd Dr. Cooper on Friday next, the Ninth of July, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, at the Reprefentatives Chamber in Bofton : where Matters of great Importance to the Society are to be acted on.
It is requested there may then be as full a Meeting as poffible ; and that fuch Members of the Society as want Pews, and have not yet fubfcribed, will then fubfcribe for them, in order that it may be known, whether thofe Gentlemen, who are not of the Society and have applied for Pews, can be accommodated.
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desired to make a Collection by Way of Subscription, from among ye Brethren of ye Church & Congregation, to ye Amount of about three hundred pounds for yª defraying ye charge of ye proposed Ordination.
April 6. 1746 M: Cooper gave, in a Sermon, a Confession of his Faith to ye general Satisfaction of ye Audience.
The Congregation gave most freely & abundantly for ye Defray of the Ordination Provisions &c: & on ye 21. of May, ye Solemn Day of ye Seperation of M: Cooper to ye Work of ye Ministry in a great & Revd Assembly M' Webb pray'd, I preach'd, from Isai. vi. 8. D: Sewal gave ye Charge, & M: Prince ye right Hand of Fellowship: & there seem'd much of ye Presence of God with us:
Before Evening ye Hond Committee of ye Congregation ask'd ye Copy of ye Sermon, Charge & Fellowship to be given them in print.
The Lords Day following May 25. M' Cooper administer'd ye Ordinance of Baptism, & that Day seven-night ye Ordinance of ye Lords Supper.
Nov: 25. 1746 Ye Brethren of ye Congregation held again their Annual Meeting, & voted ye Ministers Salaries from thence forward at ten pounds Old Tenor p Week, & 801 per annum for House-rent; & that there be Collections for ye poor of ye Congregation at ye annual Fast & Thanksgiving the next Year.
Oct. 8. 1753. This Chh and Congregation met according to Adjournment; and the report of the Committee, Mr Dan : Greenleaf Moderator, M' Lowell &c, chosen the last Meet- ing to consider if it might be proper to change the Version of Psalms we now sing for some other, was read. The report as follows - but inasmuch as there were but few Brethren present, it was voted to defer ye Consideration of this Report, to the next Meeting, on the first Monday in November. And the Brethren present were desir'd to inform
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those that were absent, of the Comittee's Report: and to confer together upon this stead.
Nov. 4. Lordsday. I notified the Brethren of ye Chh and Congregation of their Meeting the next Day, according to Adjournment: mention'd the Affair of the Psalms: & press't a general Attendance, upon an Affair so impor- tant; & that so much concern'd ev'ry stated Worshipper among us.
Nov. 5. The Report of ye Committee, for the Psalms, was read, and accepted. It was then motion'd, that we s'd now determine what Version to sing: and voted accordingly by a g't Majority.
The Pastor was then desir'd to give his Opinion; He pro- pos'd the Version of Tate & Brady, with an Addition of Hymns fr'm D'r Watts and others; to be collected by a Committee, wch ye Chh s'd appoint for that Purpose. The Brethren by a written Vote agreed to this. There were present 64. Voters. For Tate & Brady with an Appendix, 51. for D'r Watts Psalms. 5. 8 did not vote.
The Brethen then chose the Pastor with a Committee of 8 to prepare the Appendix. Viz. Col Wendell. M' D. Greenleaf. M' Hancock. M", Lowell. Johnson. Bowdoin. Deacon Parker. W™ Cooper.
July 25th. 1773. Met for the first Time in our new Meeting House; after having worshipp'd with our dear Brethren of the first Chh in this Town with great Harmony near fifteen Months, while our Building was preparing. I preach'd in the Forenoon from 28th Genesis. 27th This is none other than the House of God, and this is the Gate of Heavn. D' Chauncy preach'd p.m. from Psalms [xv. i. 8.] I have loved the Habitation of thine House, and the Place where thine Honor dwelleth.
Aug I. Read a Letter from the Church at Bolton inviting us to a Council of Churches to be held there on ye next Tues-
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day. Voted to send I Delegate only: viz: Mr. William Cooper.
Read a Letter to the Church, from Deacon Storer, in which He resign'd his office as Deacon: upon which the Church Voted, That they receive the Resignation of M' Storer, with full approbation of his Conduct in that office; and that this be signify'd to him by the Pastor.
January 12 1785. Peter Thacher, having been previously admitted a member of the church in Brattle-Street, was pub- lickly installed to the pastoral care of it by a council of twelve churches of the town & its vicinity, as successor to the late excellent & learned D' Cooper.
March 13 1785. The pastor communicated to the church a letter from the first chh in Woburn, requesting their presence by their Elder & delegates to assist in the ordination of M' Samuel Sargent and the Chh
Voted, to comply with the request, & that the deacons, M' Eb. Storer, M' Will" Greenleaf & M' Nath' Balch attend as delegates.
May 15 1785 The church, Voted, to dismiss & recommend M' John Bradford to the second church in Roxbury.
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