The Rise of Religious Liberty in America a History
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The preaching and teaching also were objected to as a vio- lation of the law of 1742 against intrusion, though it does not appear that they were at all guilty of the intrusion defined in the law, as they labored only among the Indians, attempting no interference in any parish. Such intrusion, indeed, was impossible to their foreign tongue. Perhaps this latter fact may suggest that the legislature thought the law of 1742 not sufficient to cover the case and caused the new act, the title of which... has just been recited. The act described " foreigners and suspected persons who sow and spread false and dangerous doctrines of religion amongst us, to stir up discord, to estrange the minds of the Indians from us, " and ordered that all such suspected persons " be arrested and taken before the Governor, i Records, VIII, 521. 278 RISE OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY who shall use such meanes as may be proper " to protect the colony from danger. 1 Under this law three of the Moravians Mack, Shaw, and Pyrlaens, a highly educated minister were arrested and exam- ined by the county court at New Milford.
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