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Title: Justus Falckner, mystic and scholar, devout Pietist in Germany, hermit on the Wissahickon, missionary on the Hudson : a bi-centennial memorial of the first regular ordination of an Orthodox pastor in America, done November 24, 1703, at Gloria Dei, the Swedish Lutheran church at Wicaco, Philadelphia
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Sachse, Julius Friedrich, 1842-1919
Subjects: Falckner, Justus, 1672-1723
Publisher: Philadelphia : Printed for the Author
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library

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k, he went to the Reformed at Tappan andoffered to preach the Gospel of Christ unto them, as Christhad commanded. Whereupon they took him to DominieAnthonides on Long Island, to discover whether he was ofthe Evangelical Lutheran or Reformed faith. As thus farI have not received any account of this act from the mouthof Dominie Anthonides, I will not repeat the currentrumors, though I learn them from trustworthy men.49 In the meantime, as he was not able in a single instancead interim to intrude himself here, he moved to Hacken-sack, as he travels around wherever there may happen to 49It is strange that in all of this controversy about an ordination forVan Dieren no mention is made upon the Reformed side officers of PeterTesschenmaeker, a young licensed bachelor of divinity—ordained in NewYork, 1679—Thirty years later Anthonides and Du Bois refused to be aparty to a similar ordination. Vide A Manual of the Reformed Churchin America, by Rev. E. T. Corwin, D.D., New York, 1902, p. 52.
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Appeal to Consistory. 129 be a church without a pastor, whether Evangelical, Luth-eran or Reformed. I may mention that his father-in-law looked at me trust-ingly and asked, as I delivered my first sermon, that Iwould permit him to fill my pulpit and preach in the after-noons and when I happened to be in Albany. It is reported that since my arrival he still preaches inone of the Van Buskerkes houses. Although the Van Bus-kerkes themselves come to hear my preaching, they ex-cuse themselves by saying that he was invited there priorto my coming. But neither he (Van Buskerke) nor hishousehold came to me to join in our communion, when thewhole congregation partook of the Communion eight daysago. Accordingly I beseech your Right Worshipful and MostHonorable Reverences, with all proper respect, that youwill kindly consider and take to heart the pitiful conditionof my congregation ; and even if I am to suffer poverty, forwhich I shall have the sympathy of all friends both exaltedand lowly, I t

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