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Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 4 (search)
and enslave a people. Soldiers supported in idleness are in danger soon of becoming sons of violence, a terror to the good and a support to evil-doers. God grant that our ways may so please him, as that violence may no more be perpetrated in our streets. In 1773 it was voted that the money paid by Samuel Frost for not serving as collector (in 1771) be used towards fencing the burying-place. 1774 Mr. Cooke continues his exposition of Luke, and the same of John. In a sermon on July 31, 1774, he speaks of the tribute or tax cruelly and unjustly imposed upon the Jews by Caesar, the Roman Emperor, and a band of bloody soldiers sent from Rome to enforce the payment of it, and exclaims, Happy for New England, if this had been practised by none but pagan powers In another sermon (Oct. 9, 1774) he exclaims, See here * * * * the cruel effects of arbitrary power, where the tyrant's will is the only law! Another sermon is the sacramental lecture for Nov. 6, 1774. In this is t