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HALFWAY COVENANT

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 837 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HALFWAY

COVENANT  , an expedient adopted in the Congregational churches of New England between 1657 and 1662 . Under its terms baptized persons of moral
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life and orthodox belief might receive the
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privilege of
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baptism for their children and other church benefits, without the full enrolment in membership which admitted them to the communion of the Lord's Supper . See CONGREGATIONALISM:
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American .

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