Historical Address and Appendix (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Friends of Bridge-Hampton: - The largest of all the pioneer waves that rolled over this Continent was the Puritan, striking Plymouth Rock; it swelled in majestic momentum, moving to all points until movement became part of its very nature. The swing of the Pilgrim axe, year by year grew wider. The genius of tlie Puritan was constructive and self-reliant. Puritan colonies from the first were substantially self governed. Very early they declared to the world that Governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. But long, long years before this, the Puritan had disowned all ecclesiastical subjection to Priest or Hierarch, and insisted on the right of the people to organize and govern a church for themselves. They declared for "a church without a Bishop," long before they declared for "a State without a King." Substantially they defined a church as "A company of believers in Christ associated together for the Public worship of God, for the observance of Christian ordinances, and for mutual aid and encouragement in all Christian duties." They believed the powers of church government inhered in the people as afterwards that the powers of Civil government so inhered. Both in Church and State, developed last in the latter, was the Puritan ideal that power to organize and govern churches and communities rightfully sprang from the people.

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