He also took a prominent role in the controversy which eventually divided the Presbyterian church into the "new" and "old" schools.
He declined to take sides in the controversy.
They believe that demons were originally angels who rebelled against God and took Satan's side in the controversy.
In his later life, he took part in the controversy surrounding the works of Maimonides.
Dr. John Bastwick took a minor part in the same controversy.
Serrat felt particularly uneasy about the whole situation; when he was pressed to take sides in the controversy he opted to remain neutral.
Is he, perhaps, taking a stand in the controversy involving Nike and child labor?
She smiled for the cameras, thanked the news media for coming and came across as earnest without taking sides in the controversy.
Taking no pleasure in the controversy, Nancy Floyd told Salem that "heads would roll."
In the same year he took the side of his mother-in-law, Anne Hutchinson, in the controversy that her teaching excited.