 | 1873 - 548 pages
...ordered and agreed that for time to come no man shall be admitted to the freedom of the body politic but such as are members of some of the churches within the same,":f which ensured a common faith and form of worship,— and then shall we be told that schools... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1876 - 584 pages
...and agreed that, for the time to come, no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same." Thus the polity became a theocracy ; God himself was to govern his people ; and the " saints... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - Baptists - 1876 - 528 pages
...In 1631 a law had been passed that,1 "No man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same." Nevertheless in one year, when only one hundred and fortyfive were admitted as freemen,2... | |
 | Christianity - 1876 - 624 pages
...and agreed that for ' time to come noe man shalbe admitted to the freedome of ' this body polliticke, but such as are members of some of the ' Churches within the lymitts of the same. 'I The charter of the Massachusetts Company had laid down no condition as to citizenship,... | |
 | Edward Howland - North America - 1877 - 858 pages
...and agreed, that for the time to come, no man shall be ' *dmitted to the freedom of this body politic but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same." This disfranchised about threequarters of the population. 1631, JULY 4. — A bark was launched... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1891 - 184 pages
...1620: but eleven years afterward it was decreed "that no man should be admitted to the body politic but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same." In Massachusetts in 1634 it was ordered bv the court "that none but freemen should have... | |
 | William Dodge Herrick - Gardner (Mass.) - 1878 - 612 pages
...ordered and agreed, that for time to come, no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches, within the limits of the same." In 1636, it was ordered, "that no person, being a member of any church, which shall hereafter... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1879 - 538 pages
...ordered and agreed that for the time to come no man shall be admitted to the freedom of the body politic but such as are members of some of the churches within the bounds of the same." But the fiercer mood which persecution was begetting in the Puritans only welcomed... | |
 | Ferdinand Piper, Henry Mitchell MacCracken - Christian biography - 1880 - 492 pages
...colony of Massachusetts Bay, in 1631, that "no man shall be admitted to the freedom of the body politic but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same." In other words, no one should hold civil office, or tote at the ordinary elections, unless... | |
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To the end the body of the commons may be preserved of honest and good men, it was ordered and agreed, that, for the time to come, no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the... 
