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Phinehas Peck
Phinehas Peck was a seventeenth-century theologian whose A Discourse on Unity contributed significantly to early modern Protestant thought on ecclesiastical cohesion and doctrinal consensus. Working within the intellectual currents of post-Reformation England, Peck engaged with contemporary debates regarding the relationship between scriptural authority and institutional church structure. His writings remain important for understanding how theologians of his era attempted to reconcile theological diversity with the imperative for Christian unity.
From A Discourse on Unity
DISCOURSE, DELIVERED QN THE Da¥ OF GENERAL ELECTION, 4T MONTPELIER, OCTOBER 9, 1817, BEFORE is EXCELLENCY JONAS GALUSHA, ESQ, i GOVERNOR; HIS HONOR PAUL BRIGHAM, ESG. _ LIEUT. GOVERNOR ; THE HONORABLE COUNCIL, AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF VERMONT. SS BY PHINEHAS PECK, ELDER Gs THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, LYNDON. === JESSE COCHRAN, STATE PRINTER, WINDSOR, VERMONT. 1817. ONITY: A SERMON, PSALM CXXXUEL. 1. . ghow good and how pleasant itis for brethren to dwell togetier in unity / HE occasion, on which this Psalm was composed, “Jess interesting, than the sentiments which it contains.— "The unit of the Israelites, or church of God, under their - Fenensation, is doubtless to be understood. ~~ The appellation, brethren, has been applied to children of the same parents—to men of the same profession of the same craft—to all of the same nation and lanaze—to persons of the same religion—to…
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