platform

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

In some of the New England States an ecclesiastical constitution, or a plan for the government of churches; as, the Cambridge or Saybrook platform.--Webster. The same use of this word is made by English divines.


Their minds and affections were universally bent even against all the orders and laws wherein the church is founded, conformable to the platform of Geneva.--Hooker.

A platform of church discipline, gathered out of the word of God, and agreed upon by the elders and messengers of the churches assembled at the synod in Cambridge in New England.--Title of book printed, London, 1653.

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