precaution for securing the favor of heaven the virginia company thought the indian of due to the � ins of and excess of in the colony the company in london wrote to in charge of their settlement to make good laws for the of il chap iv bacon s laws of md xvi i duke of york s so led note self in morals des in va society young s of mass compare iso the of civilization chap iv s directions for health e e t society v letter in s v mass v s scruples about and other if you ever expect a comfort or blessing of god upon our plantation the first church was organized in during an to the lord s wrath in his journal is able to point out the particular sin that provoked almost every calamity of fire illness death and financial loss that any individual one man for example ventured to work too late on saturday evening the beginning of the sabbath and his child forthwith fell into a on sunday night and was drowned in the time of king philip s indian war the of a town by and was traced not to the lack of a and a garrison but to the doomed town s neglect to secure an able of the word of god the of that extinguished all hope of wealth from the growth of wheat in was attributed by the common people to the execution of the and the indian wars of and were thought a punishment for laws but the party proceeded in the latter year to make the laws against more the governor of south thought that a fever in that colony was due to the of viii in the century there was much fear of into by lord and measures of conduct bacon the pouring of wine into newly dug earth for the effect of the but he adds the caution that it be not taken for a heathen sacrifice or to the earth the in the body of liberties of which made it a capital to have any other god but the lord god could have had no practical aim unless it was the of many members of the in that colony regarded the english as a gross idol and refused to march behind it because it had a cross in it the new england thinking three of a cross no cross at all cut off one arm of it in the colors wrote a paper to prove the harmless but the rising zeal against the cross of st george from the colors of the in after this the red flag d only a white field in the upper corner for a union for similar reasons the early omitted the saint from familiar names for long generations englishmen had paid rents and wages on the day of september when the harvest was fully in hand for such purposes it had been the habit for ages to count the year from to and the term could hardly be spared in it was into so that neither mass nor might get any good of it in the first half of the century and later there were scruples chap iv s journal i note mass records and elsewhere s letter in mass s ii s journal l i i i ben s the of civilization chap iv s and others s s ii against using the ordinary names of months and days of the week on account of their pagan numbers were introduced instead to avoid in boston said the royal of charles ii neither days months seasons churches nor are known by their english names the practice of the days gradually passed out of fashion after it became a of efforts to revive it in the last years of the century were vain the pinch of the inconvenient scruple was got over by a trick of words the names of the days were from by being called names but new england continued to refuse to speak of the lord s day as sunday from persecution in virginia refused to take an oath of fidelity to the government of because the officers of had sworn not to roman and what was that but swearing to countenance and anti christ and so by many links through their oaths to the government and church and through the and their oaths and through the with their saints and images these tender would at last be drawn into a long distance not only was there danger in those perilous times that the individual might fall into without knowing it but the were ever on the alert to keep the land and measures of conduct from being by soon after the earliest settlement of governor cut down one false god the at a few years later in the general court went further and the natives from their ancient custom of in the land of their forefathers weird dances accompanied by and with and inarticulate cries were naturally taken for worship of a false god or of a devil the virginia company had much earlier proposed to capture the indian medicine men and thus put an end to such heathen mysteries the ancient that dominion hath its foundation in grace was accepted in the earliest colonies and hence christians by right divine one writer that some of the virginia about the middle of the century carried their christianity so far as to believe that a pagan had no right to property for which a christian might have use ix the sense of moral proportion was obscured and confused in a dread of offending god the english custom of drinking was deemed an abominable practice and put under ban in new england and later in not for the promotion of alone but mainly because it was a profane mixing chap iv s public good without private interest young s of mass trifling note the of 