Life of Henry Dunster - 1872 Author:Jeremiah Chaplin Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V. ON his removal to Cambridge, Mr. Dunster united with Mr. Shcpard's church, now the First Church of Cambridge, at which time he gave his Confession ... more »of faith and an account of the " Lord's personal dealings" with his soul. Except in one point, he was in full accord with the church, and that difference was not deemed a bar to fellowship. He held to the baptism of infants, but that immersion had the preponderance of proof in its favor. He told the church, however, that, as " there was something for sprinkling in the Scriptures, he should not be offended when [it] was used." ' In June of the next year (1641), he married Mrs. Klisabcth Glover,' the widow of Rev. JesseGlover,1 who, in 1638, had died on his passage from England. There was no issue from this union, but he became the guardian of Mr. Glover's five children, a trust which he seems to have executed as " a kind and watchful parent, a faithful and considerate instructor."2 Mrs. Dunster died in August, 1643, a little more than two years after their marriage, and sometime the next year, Mr. Dunster took a second wife, also named Elisabeth, a native of England, by whom he had five children, three sons and two daughters, all of whom were born in Cambridge. Mrs. Dunster survived her husband more than thirty years, dying at an advanced age in Cambridge. 1 Sec |)n-:es 109 and 260. - This marriage resulted in a somewhat intimate connection between the Dunster and Winthrop families, by the subsequentmarriage of two of Mrs. Glover's daughters to sons of Governor Winthrop; and it was in this way, doubtless, that the lattcr's "Christian Experience," given in Hon. Robert C. Wimhrop's "Lite and Letters " (II. 165) of his illustrious ancestor, came im.i Mr. Dunster's possession. The copy from the lost original, i:i the "...« less