"New Light" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1835, The New Statistical Account of Scotland, page 289",
          "text": "An Antiburgher meeting house was erected at Blacks-well in 1761, and a New Light Burgher house, near the church, towards the end of last century.",
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          "ref": "1995, Hugh Barbour, Christopher Densmore, Elizabeth H. Moger, Nancy C. Sorel, Alson D. Van Wagner, Arthur J. Worrall, Quaker Crosscurrents: Three Hundred Years of Friends in the New York Yearly Meetings, Syracuse University Press, page 44",
          "text": "[The Public Universal Friend] was born into a Quaker family in Rhode Island but was disowned in 1776 for joining the New Light Baptists.",
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          "text": "In Virginia, Samuel Davies, a New Light Presbyterian, and his followers had the greatest impact. The differences between New Lights and orthodox Anglicans centered mainly on two issues.",
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          "ref": "2012, Michael I. Meyerson, Endowed by Our Creator: The Birth of Religious Freedom in America, Yale University Press",
          "text": "Because many of the New Light Baptist churches were not recognized by the Old Light Baptists, these endorsements were often impossible to obtain.",
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