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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 18: (search)
ce of Lutheranism on America was inconsiderable. New Sweden had the faith and the politics of the German reformer; no democratic ideas distracted its single-minded loyalty. The Anglican church in Virginia may, in one sense, be traced through Cranmer to Luther. But as the New World sheltered neither bishops nor princes, in respect to political opinion, the English church was there but an enfranchisement from Popery, favoring humanity and freedom. The inhabitants of Virginia were conformistresbyterians, attest their perseverance. Such was the system, which, for a century and a half, assumed the guardianship of liberty for the English world. A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war, said Luther, preaching non-resistance; and Cranmer echoed back, God's people are called to render obedience to governors, althoa they be wicked or wrong-doers, and in no case to resist.—Civil magistrates, replied English Calvinism,—I quote the very words, in which, under an extravagant form, its