end quietness obeys the legal commands of Authority. In 1649 the Maryland Assembly ruled that blaspheming, cursing, denial of or "reproachfull speeches, words or language concerning" the Trinity should be punished with death and for, feiture of goods. But in the same proclamation we read that noe person professing to beleive in Jesus Christ, shall from henceforth bee any waies troubled, Molested or discountenanced for or in respect of his or her religion nor in the free exercise thereof nor any way compelled to the beleife or exercise of any other Religion against his or her consent, so as they be not unfaithfull to the Lord Proprietary, or molest or conspire against the civill governem't. -Archives of Maryland, by Browne. at such distances from each other, many of them are very remote from the House of God, though placed in the middest of them. Many Parishes as yet want both Churches and Gleabes, and I think not above a fifth part of them are supplyed with Ministers, where there are Ministers the people meet together Weekly, but once upon the Lord's day, and sometimes not at all, being hindered by ... the length or tediousness of the way, through extremities of heat in Summer, frost and Snow in Winter, and tempestuous weather in both. -Hart, I, 295. Rhode Island.-To be contrasted with Ward on toleration we have R. Williams, writing in 1670. Forced worship stinks in God's nostrils. In these flames about religion there is no other prudent, christian way of preserving peace in the world but by permission of differing consciences. -Mass. Hist. Society, Col lections. And Governor Peleg Sandford, in his official report, in 1680, writes: We leave every Man to walke as God shall persuade their hartes, and doe actively and passively yield obedience to the Civill Magistrate and doe not actively disturb the Civill peace and have liberty to frequent any meetings of worship for their better instruction and information. Greene, History of Rhode Island. Connecticut.-Blue laws of 1672: If any person Father, Son or Holy Ghost Blaspheme the Name of God the manner, he shall be put to death. or shall curse in like New York.-Governor Thomas Dougan, of New York, in 1687, writes: Here bee not many of the Church of England; few Roman Catholicks; abundance of Quakers preachers men and Women especially; Singing Quakers, Ranting Quakers, Sabbatarians; Anti sabbatarians; some Anabaptists some Independents; some Jews; in short of all sorts of opinions there are some, and the most part of none at all.-Documentary History of New York. Before this, in 1679, Dankers and Sluyter went to religious service in New York. As it is not strange in these countries to have men as ministers who drink, we could imagine nothing else than that he had been drinking a little this morning. His text was, Come unto me all ye, etc., but he was so rough that even the roughest and most godless of our sailors were astonished. QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT. 1. Name the reasons given for colonizing. 2. What class of emigrants came, judging from the text? 3. What change between 1637 and 1660 in regard to allowing emigration? 4. What do the accounts in regard to ocean voyages show in regard to character of emigrants? 5. What did the early voyagers say regarding the Indians? 6. How did the king dispose of part of the land? 7. How were settlers enticed to come to America? 8. How did the settlers in Virginia get wives? 9. What land was granted in the first charter, 1606? 10. What classes were stockholders in the second charter, 1609? 11. When did the first House of Burgesses of Virginia sit? 12. What contest in regard to taxes between the people of Watertown and Massachusetts Bay? 13. What can you learn from the Mayflower compact? 14. Meaning of the punishment of a deputy for questioning the right of the gov ernor to the "negative voice." 15. What did Winthrop believe in regard to his power as governor? 16. What relig ious denominations complained of their treatment? 17. When and what was the first popular constitution? 18. Can you find any indications of a spirit of rebellion? 19. Were the Puritans superstitious? 20. Were their laws harsh? their punishments? 21. Name the industries you find men tioned. 22. Were they good farmers? 23. Trace the journey of the Pilgrims from England to Plymouth. 24. Were the Puritans tolerant? 25. What kind of a man was Rev. John Cotton? 26. What does the testimony prove in regard to the morals of the colonists? 27. What peculiar attribute do you find in Maryland? 28. What colony would you have preferred to live in? why? SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS. a. How would you explain the intolerant spirit so often manifested? b. Point out institutions existing now that had their beginning in 17th century. c. Did the theory and the practice of the Puritan coincide? d. Trace the development of witchcraft. Do you find its basis in lile depicted in above extracts? e. Name the lessons you may learn from this study? |