The Cambridge Platform is a statement of congregational church government for the churches of colonial New England. It was written in 1648 in response to Presbyterian criticism and served as the religious constitution of Massachusetts until 1780.[1] The platform's preface also endorsed the Westminster Confession.[2] The document was shaped primarily by the Puritan ministers Richard Mather and John Cotton.
- ^ Dunning 1894, p. 148.
- ^ Foote, Henry Wilder (1949). "The Significance and Influence of the Cambridge Platform of 1648" (PDF). Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society: 42–43.