Saybrook Platform

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Saybrook Platform refers to conservative religious proposals adopted at Saybrook, Connecticut, in September, 1708, which attempted to stem the tide of disunity among the established Congregational churches and restore discipline among both the clergy and their congregations. In its "Fifteen Articles" the platform provided for "associations" of pastors and elders and "consociations" of churches, each with broad powers to rule in disputes between churches, to proceed against erring churches and pastors, and to license the latter. The Platform was but a brief conservative victory against a non-conformist tide which had begun with the Half-way covenant and would culminate in the Great Awakening.