england do our best we shall hardly avoid injustice in our opinion of the changes of time and the advance of ideas have rendered a sympathetic judgment of him difficult above all he was not like and a high he sought to make the english church catholic and yet he would on no account attach it to rome like he made the church dependent on royal authority and in this he was far removed chap iv rise of notes character of the book ii from the earlier there was nothing spiritual in his nature his personal devotion had neither agony nor exaltation he had none of the enthusiasm that prompted the of his contemporary for example and elevated the master of little to a amiable and touching notwithstanding the energy of s devotion his nature was as shallow and as it was sincere it has been remarked that when spoke of the beauty of he meant no more than decorum in public worship the beauty of a well ordered church and of proper and he seemed to touch a modern note when he proposed to suppress the futile debate between and because it tended to disturb christian charity but s christian charity like his was purely external it was merely quiet submission to one and one form of discipline his and even cruel temper toward showed him incapable of of charity in any spiritual sense he disliked because it put obstacles in the way of and he had no taste for debate because it tended to authority his intellect was utterly practical and acute it was energetic and its energy was by its his attachment to the church had no relation to the beneficent of the church the church was a for which he was ready to die without the great a murmur in his zeal he was reckless of personal danger and sometimes of the moral complexion of his actions his was so with his zeal that he could not separate one from the other nor can the student of his character a to him was an to almighty god the very honesty of such a man is a little might have softened the outward of his hard nature unhappily there was not even or to moderate his all but activity which pushed his to its possibilities and with a vigilance to penetrated to the details in the administration of church and state he even filed papers giving the elements of the on good works as an evidence of carried on between and cotton in the cabin of new england for the rest he presents the one expects in so marked a character while he had no taste for the of his time he showed a certain relish for in dreams and yet he had none of the timidity of superstition he was moreover fearless in peril and he faced without stubborn and with the clergy and the and pitiless with those who had offended him or his king or his church he was and in his relations with those in power his unworthy yielding to his early patron the earl of chap iv the book ii letter to in art in a matter which concerned his conscience gave him a bitter and repentance his to and his devotion to charles seem a little he was even willing at the last to make terms with parliament when it became plain that parliament was the new master though he was the farthest possible from a coward and he accepted death on the with the serene composure of a martyr political conditions promote iv the great to new england set in soon after the beginning of s in the government of england it as he declined and ceased forever with his fall there is a witty in the phrase by which a historian the father of new england other had contented themselves with crushing the but with characteristic boldness and logical struck at the powerful party which had for more than half a century to remain in the church of england while protesting against the discipline and service of the church the arbitrary government of the new king the dissolution of parliament and the imprisonment of liberal leaders cut off hope of securing church reform or a of oppressive laws high church with arguments in favor of the king s absolute authority and the duty of the great obedience while the declared principles of the king and his court left the property liberty and life of the subject exposed to the or the of those in power in view of these things some of the began to think the american wilderness a better place of residence than england v the state of the church was even more a reason for removal than the of the government persecution had failed to drive ministers or their followers into what they deemed the capital sin of they hated the of the communion with the and the absence of a rigid discipline but they had been sustained through long years of waiting by the hope of delivering the church from those who oppressed and her they proposed whenever they could gain power to the from the wheat and they probably destined the to swift destruction but the hope of seeing a church without spot or prayer book or bishop died under the policy of and and many came to look with favor on a project whose full import was only whispered in the ear to found in the of america a particular church as they it � a new church with a right of in a new land and backed by the sanction of the government of the country it was no modem general chap iv motives for the book ii fear of life and letters of i love of liberty civil or religious but a desire to find a place where they might make real their ideal of church organization that brought the out 