 | Antonio de Alcedo - America - 1814 - 654 pages
...province. William Brewster was highly esteemed by the whole company, was their ruling elder in Holland, which seems to have been the bar to his being their...in the same person, being then deemed incompatible. Mr. Bradford gives this account of him : " After he had attained the knowledge of the Latin tongue,... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1841 - 546 pages
...has sometimes been asked, Why was not Brewster chosen ? The answer is given by Hutchinson, ii. 460. " He was their ruling elder, which seems to have been...in the same person being then deemed incompatible." ' Here the daily journal breaks off, and an interval of three months occurs before the account of the... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1841 - 552 pages
...has sometimes been asked, Wby was not Brewster chosen ? The answer is given by Hutchinson, ii. 460. " He was their ruling elder, which seems to have been...in the same person being then deemed incompatible." 1 Here the daily journal breaks off, and an interval of three months occurs before the account of the... | |
 | Ashbel Steele - Biography & Autobiography - 1857 - 508 pages
...their ruling elder-? And the reason why he was not chosen to be their first governor, says Hutchinson, was that "He was their ruling elder, which seems to...ecclesiastical office in the same person being then deemed incompatible."20 While in his place as elder they could furnish no substitute ; to them as a church,... | |
 | Ashbel Steele - Biography & Autobiography - 1857 - 438 pages
...their ruling elder? And the reason why he was not chosen to be their first governor, says Hutchinson, was that " He was their ruling elder, which seems...his being their governor; civil and ecclesiastical oiBce in the same person being then deemed incompatible."20 While in his place as elder they could... | |
 | Thomas Lathrop Kennan - 1907 - 170 pages
...Father of New England." The reason why he was not chosen to be their first governor says Hutchison, was that "He was their ruling elder, which seems to...and ecclesiastical office in the same person being by them deemed incompatible." Little did they imagine that they were then and there laying the foundation... | |
 | Daniel Ozro Smith Lowell - 1920 - 278 pages
...and PRINCE, made Governor of Plymouth Colony? The historian Hutchinson explains this when he says: He was their ruling Elder, which seems to have been...in the same person, being then deemed incompatible. ELDER BREWSTER was by far the most learned man among the early colonists; at his death he left a library... | |
 | Emma C. Brewster Jones - Plymouth (Mass.) - 1908 - 380 pages
...his age, the only reason why the Elder was not chosen the first Governor of the Plymouth Colony, says Hutchinson in his History, was that " He was their...the Crown. Some subsequent historians, not realizing fliat, as Judge Baylies says, " the power of the church was then superior to the civil power," or the... | |
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He was their ruling elder, which seems to have been the bar to his being their Governor — civil and ecclesiastical office, in the same person, being then deemed incompatible. 