his strength but he had such a spiritual that i could well bear it says he and in a manner felt it not although it was grievous as the spectators said he told the you have struck me as with roses and i pray god it may not be laid to your charge two men came up after the brutal punishment was over and shook hands with him saying blessed be god they were forty shillings and imprisoned yet the to increase blow the fire if yon wish it to bum the town of maiden was for to settle a minister without consulting the neighboring churches though there was no law to that effect the general court forbade the settlement of michael in the at the second church in boston he had been a tavern keeper at and though gifted was how humbly he submitted my humble request is that you would not have such hard thoughts of me that i would consent to be ordained to office without your nor that our poor church of the attempt such a thing your at his death this gifted man left to the value of fourteen pounds and a library of three a with other valued at two pounds in men not members of the church were compelled to support the clergyman and through her influence always before her sister in liberality passed a law to the same however in his settlement at new providence could rejoice that we have not been consumed with the over fire of the so called ministers writes to the new first you compel such to come into your as you know will not join you in your worship and when they show their dislike thereof or witness against it then you stir up your to punish them for such as you conceive their public cotton and replied better be than persons we fled from men s inventions and only compelled others to attend to god s institutions � that is to all the of the creed and we content ourselves with unity in the foundation of religion and church order never was the violent attempt to secure unity in the foundation of religion less successful new england was a perfect of how is it writes sir harry in that there are such divisions among you � such disorder injustice are there no wise men among you � no public self denying q a law was passed the of a without the consent of the of the town � who were all � and the county court or the consent of the general court it would be setting up an altar against the lord s altar were banished or hanged but all this was in making men alike of all sorts there were excited no doubt by the laws against freedom the hateful at length got a church established in the it is instructive to see the in new england and the in canada at the same time to establish a both for the same purpose each by the means � the of individual freedom in religion does but the to a free state i si ae united j� au said butler and with a little truth the laws of which continued in force till the revolution provided that a priest coming here should be accounted an and of the public peace and safety he was to suffer perpetual imprisonment and death if he attempted to escape but spite of the law against priests the worst part of came here the spirit of and persecution along with this of the churches the old elements of aristocracy were brought to america and continued to live for awhile in the new soil a distinction was carefully kept up between gentlemen and those of an inferior condition only the gentlemen were allowed the title mr their number was not very large the rest rejoiced in the in some persons of quality wished to come to new england and it was proposed to establish a standing council for life in the there were to be two classes of men namely hereditary gentlemen to sit as a permanent and a body of who were to send to constitute a lower house the and elders favored the scheme finding it to the light of nature and scripture the � great cotton an able man with the soul of a priest liked the scheme well was not a fit government either for church or state and aristocracy are approved and directed in scripture but only as a is set up in both if the people are says he who shall be governed indignant mr savage on this measure says the ministers were perpetually with the of the and we have frequent occasion to regret that their to the of were received as authority rather than illustration but how could it be otherwise with such a naturally leads to an aristocracy on earth as well as in heaven the world � and the is for the elect and who shall lay any thing to their charge however the people put an end to all talk about hereditary gentlemen who disappear from the history of new england forever had this proposition become a law the state of things would have been a little different today for a long time the law however recognized a distinction between the gentleman and the simple man no man says a law of shall be beaten above forty nor shall any true gentleman or any man equal to a i of the united gentleman be punished with unless his crime be very shameful and his career of life vicious and but in paul thought a very poor place for gentlemen meaning says mr those who wish to grow rich on the labor of others for some time there was no trial by jury m no warrant was found for it in the word of god we find the element active in 