Religious Liberty An Invaluable Blessing Illustrated in Two Discourses Preach
Religious Liberty An Invaluable Blessing Illustrated in Two Discourses Preach
Amos Adams
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He was the advifer of mo ft arbitrary meafures, and a furious and cruel perfecutor of the Puritans. Soon after his advancement, he proceeded againft the non- cwformijh with great feverity. One or other of the puritan minifters was, every week, fufpended or deprived* and their families driven co diftrefs : there was no liberty of confcience, nor any profpect of relief, the clouds gathered thicker over their heads* and threatned a dreadful ftorm. This put our fa- tbers, on projecting a fettlement... in this Province, where they might be delivered from the hand of op- prefTion, and enjoy the liberty of- their conferences. They arrived firft at tal'-m in 1629, and afterwards* (viz. Iri 1630. ) iri much greater numbers in this neighbourhood, and laid the foundation of thefe flourishing churches, in which libtrty of confcience hath, blefied be God, been enjoyed thefe 137 years. WNEN our fathers left their native country, they did not mean to excommunicate the eftabli/bedchurch. They called its members their reverend fathers and brethren, and fervently afked their prayers for them- feives, promifing to remember them " when" (fay they) " we fhall be in our poor cottages in the wil- 45 dernefs, overfhadowed with the fpirit of fupplica- * A particular account of the firft adventurers to Ply- mouth) with the characters of feveral of their leading men, the reader will find in Lieut.
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