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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
ould be obtained only by the favor of the clergy and an exemplary life. They dreaded unlimited freedom of opinion as the parent of ruinous divisions. The cracks and flaws in the new building of the reformation, thought they, portend a fall; Shepherd's Lamentation, 2. they desired patriotism, union, and a common heart; they were earnest to confirm and build up the state, the child of their cares and their sorrows. They were reproached with being priestridden magistrates, The phrase is Wi to deliver up their arms. So ended the Antinomian strife in Massachusetts. On this strife I have read the Col Records; the decisions of the synod; the copious Winthrop; the Documents in Hutchinson's Coll.; Werde's Rise, Reign, and Ruin; T. Shepherd's Lamentation; a fragment of Wheelwright's Sermon; and the statement of John Cotton himself, in his reply to Williams; also, Saml. Gorton, Hubbard, C. Mather, Neal, Hutchinson, Callender, Backus, Savage, and Knowles. The principles of Anne Hut
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
they kissed no book; they asked no absolution; they paid no tithes; they saw in Chap X.} the priest nothing more than a man; ordination was no more than an approbation of the officer, which might be expressed by the brethren, as well as by other ministers; Trumbull's Conn. i. 283. the church, as a place of worship, was to them but a meeting-house; they dug no graves in consecrated earth; unlike their posterity, they married without a minister, and buried the dead without a prayer. Shepherd's Clear Sunshine, 36. Witchcraft had not been made the subject of skeptical consideration; and in the years in which Scotland sacrificed hecatombs to the delusion, there were three victims in New England. Dark crimes, that seemed without a motive, may have been pursued under that name; I find one record of a trial for witch craft, where the prisoner was proved a murderess. Records, II. 54, 55. On every subject but religion, the mildness of Puritan legislation corresponded to the pop