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Baptist Churches in the United States,
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Protestant Episcopal Church, chaps, iv., v.; C. F. Adams,
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Three Episodes in Massachusetts History,
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The Episcopal Church in Connecticut (
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New Englander,
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S. P. G., including several employed specially among the Indians and the negroes. Fifteen years later there were reported to the
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Venerable Society in New York and New Jersey twenty-two churches (
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Digest of S. P. G.,
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Digest of S. P. G.,
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Reformed (Dutch) Church,
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Mr. Hooker did often quote a saying out of Mr. Cartwright, that no man fashioneth his house to his hangings, but his hangings to his house. It is better that the commonwealth be fashioned to the setting forth of God's house, which is his church, than to accommodate the church frame to the civil state (John Cotton, quoted by L. Bacon,
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Historical Discourses,
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The Society of Friends,
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Reformed (Dutch) Church,
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Venerable Society's operations are painfully frequent in the pages of the
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The Making of Pennsylvania, p. 125; Thomas,
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The Society of Friends,
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Religion gave birth to wealth, and was devoured by her own offspring.
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The Society of Friends,
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The Making of Pennsylvania,
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Shackamaxon Treaty, of which nothing is known except by vague report and tradition, is spoken of as some thing quite unprecedented in this respect. The fact is that this measure of virtue was common to the English colonists generally, and eminently to the New England colonists. A good example of the ordinary cant of historical writers on this subject is found in
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The Making of Pennsylvania, p. 238. The writer says of the Connecticut Puritans:
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They occupied the land by squatter sovereignty.... It seemed like a pleasant place; they wanted it. They were the saints, and the saints, as we all know, shall inherit the earth.... Having originally acquired their land simply by taking it, ... they naturally grew up with rather liberal views as to their right to any additional territory that pleased their fancy.