Henry Martyn Dexter

Henry Martyn Dexter

Henry Martyn Dexter (August 13, 1821 - November 13, 1890), American clergyman and author, was born in Plympton, Massachusetts.

He graduated at Yale in 1840 and at the Andover Theological Seminary in 1844; was pastor of a Congregational church in Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1844-1849, and of the Berkeley Street Congregational church, Boston, in 1849-1867; was an editor of the "Congregationalist" in 1851-1866, of the "Congregational Quarterly" in 1859-1866, and of the "Congregationalist", with which the "Recorder" was merged, from 1867 until his death in New Bedford, Mass..

He was an authority on the history of Congregationalism and was lecturer on that subject at the Andover Theological Seminary in 1877-1879; he left his fine library on the "Puritans in America" to Yale University. Among his works are:
*"Congregationalism, What it is, Whence it is, How it works, Why it is better than any other Form of Church Government, and its consequent Demands" (1865)
*"The Church Polity of the Puritans the Polity of the New Testament" (1870)
*"As to Roger Williams and His Banishment from the Massachusetts Colony" (1876)
*"Congregationalism of the Last Three Hundred Years, as seen in its Literature" (1880)
*his most important work, "A Handbook of Congregationalism" (1880)
*"The True Story of John Smyth, the Se Baptist, told by Himself and his Contemporaries" (1881)
*"Common Sense as to Woman Suffrage" (1885)Also many reprints of pamphlets bearing on early church history in New England, especially Baptist controversies. His "The England and Holland of the Pilgrims" was completed by his son, Morton Dexter (b. 1846), and published in 1905.----


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