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Identifier: popularhistoryof00brya (find matches)
Title: A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
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Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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gs discourse. It was a great triumph overRoger Williams, and so pleased was Mr. Cotton with his success, thathe carried the subject into the Boston Lecture. But here Endicott*met him in fierce debate, and so hot did it grow that the governor in-terfered to put an end to it.^ Williams had no more devoted follower than Endicott, whose zealwas of the kind that out-runs discretion. At home and abroad hewas, for a time, ready to uphold his pastor at any cost, and would, nodoubt, had not the governor stopped him, have maintained againstCotton, rather than admit that there was any defect in the doctrine 1 Savages Winthrop, vol. i., p. 122. 2 Such sermons, however, Avere not uncommon. Eliot and Chauncy, President of Har-vard College, preached long and learned discourses on Wigs. Life of Williams, SparkssBiography, vol. xiv. All the magistrates in 1649, signed a solemn protest against menwearing long hair, and commended the subject to the attention of the ministers. Hutch-insons History. I I I
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op^ CO (/)O w HO I—I hH13u HHOU Q ;z; 1634.) ROGER WILLIAMS. * 543 in regard to veils, that every woman in Boston was like Tamar andshould hide her face. The Council of Massachusetts were far moretender of him than of the minister, though he did not always escapepunishment. His zeal, and the influence of his pastors teaching were made man-ifest in an act of more moment than whether the womenshould go uncovered. The preaching of Williams was of cuts out thethe searching kind and the application of his principles ofundefiled religion, knew no limit. There was in him no fear of prin-cipalities or powers; for the Church of England he had only abhor-rence ; for those who reverenced her, rebuke if not denunciation. Helooked everywhere for the signs of anti-Christ, and at any relic of su-perstition he pointed an unswerving finger. In the red cross of St.George he saw only a remnant of Popery, not an ensign of victory.This fervid flame of pure spiritual doctrine caught up Endicott and hebla

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