Massachusetts; Its Historians And Its History. An Object Lesson
Massachusetts; Its Historians And Its History. An Object Lesson
Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915. [from Old Catalog]
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A. Vinton, The Antinomian Controversy^ pp. 16, 17, 23, 86. 3 "Thirdly, let conscience and experience speak how in the not cutting off their many religions, it hath pleased God not only not to be provoked, but to prosper the state of the United Provinces our next neighbors, and that to admiration.'' — The Bloudy Tenent (1644), p. 160. Digitized by Google 48 MASS A CHU SETTS : controversy in the wholesale expulsion of the adherents of Mrs. Hutchinson^ — " Banishment is a word which grates harshly... on the ear.^ . . . The sending away these men, we allow, has prima facie an aspect of rigor and harshness. But the charter gave the right and the power." Advocates " concede " and " allow " and ** admit;" the historian should be judicial: but the climax of the filio-pietistic school is reached when the authority I have quoted from, having proved that toleration did not and could not safely and, therefore, should not have existed in New England, suddenly remembers that, after all, Religious Toleration, like Civil Liberty, was a great cause, and that it might be unbecoming in a devout worshipper of ancestry to cut that ancestry off from all claim to participation in the struggle for that cause, — remembering this, and having just defended and excused unreservedly their intolerance, he exclaims — "Our fathers should not be blamed for not acting in all respects according to the light we now enjoy; .
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