...forth of God's house, as Mr. Cotton styled it, was certainly with the commendable design of founding " such civil order as might best conduce to the securing of the purity and peace of the ordinances to themselves and their posterity according to God." But it was the parent evil of every...

...Davenport, it was solemnly resolved, that the Scriptures are the perfect rule of a commonwealth; that the purity and peace of the ordinance to themselves and their posterity, were the great end of civil order ; and that church members only should be free burgesses. A committee...