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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
In equal independence, a Puritan colony sprang up 1638 at New Haven, under the guidance of John Davenport as its pastor, and of the excellent Theophilus Eaton, who was annually elected its governor not yet revived the verdure of nature; under the leafless tree the little flock were taught by Davenport, that, like the Son of man, they were led into the wilderness to be tempted. After a day of fho was laid in a manger held their constituent assembly in a barn. There, by the influence of Davenport, it was solemnly resolved, that the Scriptures are the perfect rule of a commonwealth; that thd to choose seven men, qualified for the foundation work of organizing the government. Eaton, Davenport, and five others, were the seven Pillars for the new House of Wisdom, in the wilderness. In Acivil magistrates was next expounded from the sacred oracles; and the election followed. Then Davenport, in the words of Moses to Israel in the wilderness, gave a charge to the governor, to judge ri