This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...the Colony failed, the fault lies at the door of their fatal experiment of a Puritan Commonwealth. Cotton has been called, and his memory honoured as, the "Patriarch of the Massachusetts Theocracy," and has been described as "the clerical oracle of the Theocracy," a system which outraged the principles of civic liberty ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...the Colony failed, the fault lies at the door of their fatal experiment of a Puritan Commonwealth. Cotton has been called, and his memory honoured as, the "Patriarch of the Massachusetts Theocracy," and has been described as "the clerical oracle of the Theocracy," a system which outraged the principles of civic liberty, which opened wide the door for intolerance and persecution, was impracticable in its working, and violated the fundamental Protestant doctrine of the right of private judgment. Cotton, as we shall see, sympathised with and encouraged the theocracy, but the law by which it came to be established was none of his making: it was laid down by the General Court two years before his coming, when it was "ordered that henceforth no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this Commonwealth but such as are members of the churches within the limits of this jurisdiction." In other words, there were to be no voters except church members, who were received only on approval of the clergy. This made the ministers supreme, and gave them power over matters of civic moment. Church and State were one; and the one was to be the Church. But other matters have to be considered in conjunction with the development of this pernicious system which the founders of the Bay Colony set up. Welcome as the great Puritan preacher was, he brought over with him from England some views in regard to civil government which were by no means acceptable in the Colony. These views he took occasion to impress and enforce in the election sermon which he delivered before the General Court in the following May (1634), when he maintained "that a magistrate ought not to be turned into the condition of a private man without just cause, any more than a magis...
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