The Beginnings of New England : Or, the Puritan Theocracy in Its Relations to Civil And Religious Liberty
The Beginnings of New England : Or, the Puritan Theocracy in Its Relations to Civil And Religious Liberty
Fiske, John, 1842-1901
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146 THE BEGINNINGS OF NEW ENGLAND. as we started on our arduous labour. So it was with the Puritan settlers of New England. The religious liberty that we enjoy to-day is largely the consequence of their work ; but it is a consequence that was unforeseen, while the direct and conscious aim of their labours was something that has never been realized, and probably never will be. The aim of Winthrop and his friends in coming to Massachusetts was the construction of a theo- cratic state which should... be to Christians, under the New Testament dispensation, all that the theocracy of Moses and Joshua and Samuel had ideal oi the been to the Jews in Old Testament days. Puritans. , They should be to all intents and pur- poses freed from the. jurisdiction of the Stuart king, and so far as possible the text of the Holy Scriptures should be their guide both in weighty matters of general legislation and in the shaping of the smallest details of daily life. In such a scheme there was no room for religious liberty as we understand it.
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