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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 8 0 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Colonial history. (search)
our counsels. Walker, II. 54 The young and sincere Algernon Sidney opposed, and saw the danger of a counter Chap XI} revolution. No one will stir, cried Cromwell impatiently; I tell you we will cut off his head with the crown on it. See Godwin, II. 669 Sidney withdrew; and Charles was abandoned to the sanguinary severity of a sect. To sign the death-warrant was a solemn deed, from which some of his judges were ready to shrink; Cromwell concealed the magnitude of the act under an air olish people fell from the jealous care of their liberties. He had ever been incorrupt and disinterested, merciful Chap XI.} and liberal. When Unitarianism was persecuted, not as a sect, but as a blasphemy, Vane interceded for its advocate; Godwin, III. 511. he pleaded for the liberty of Quakers imprisoned for their opinions; Sewell, 191 as a legislator, he demanded justice in behalf of the Roman Catholics; he resisted the sale of Penruddoc's men into slavery, as an aggression on the ri
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 14: (search)
popular freedom, was dissolved; writs for a new election were issued; and Bacon, returning in triumph from his Indian warfare, was unanimously elected a burgess from Henrico county. T. M.'s Account, 11, 12. In the choice of this assembly, the late disfranchisement of freemen was little regarded. Review, in Burk, ii. 251 and 260. A majority of the members returned were much infected with the principles of Bacon; Justification of Berkeley, in Burk, ii. 260. and their speaker, Thomas Godwin, was notoriously a friend to all the rebellion and treason which distracted Virginia. Hening, ii. 365 and 557. In the midst of contradictory testimony on the character of the insurgents, the acts of the assembly furnish the highest Chap. XIV.} 1676. historical evidence, and must be taken as paramount authority on the purposes of the Grand Rebellion in Virginia. The late expenditures of public money had not June 5-24. been accounted for. Compare Culpepper, in Chalmers, 356. Hi
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 18: (search)
ing its foes, it put off its armor of religious pride. You go to receive your reward, was said to Hooker on his death-bed. I go to receive mercy, was his reply. For predestination Connecticut substituted benevolence. It hanged no quakers, it mutilated no heretics. Its early legislation Chap XVIII} is the breath of reason and charity; and Jonathan Edwards did but sum up the political history of his native commonwealth for a century, when, anticipating, and in his consistency excelling, Godwin and Bentham, he gave Calvinism its political euthanasia, by declaring virtue to consist in universal love. In Boston, with Henry Vane and Anne Hutchinson, Calvinism ran to seed; and the seed was incorruptible. Election implies faith, and faith freedom. Claiming the Spirit of God as the companion of man, the Antinomians asserted absolute freedom of mind. For predestination they substituted consciousness. If the ordinances be all taken away, Christ cannot be; the forms of truth may peri