 | Charles Francis Adams - Freedom of religion - 1893 - 126 pages
...forms. Now it was in the well known verses found in Governor Dudley's pocket after his death : — " Let men of God in courts and churches watch O'er such...ill egg bring forth a cockatrice To poison all with heresie and vice." Again, in 1647, while the battle for Toleration was waxing hot in England, the Simple... | |
 | Governor Thomas Dudley Family Association - 1893 - 460 pages
...differ from our own. In his own time, this strong man was very close to the popular heart Avhen he wrote "Let men of God in courts and churches watch, O'er such as do a toleration hatch, Lest the ill egg bring forth a cockatrice To pay you all with heresy and vice." •A cockatrice la a aeri>ent... | |
 | Governor Thomas Dudley Family Association - 1894 - 362 pages
...do mischief and torment his good name and his friends. The following are the four eminent ones : " Let men of God in Courts and Churches watch O'er such...a cockatrice, To poison all with heresy and vice." Professor John Fiske, who is considerate enough to call him " grim Thomas Dudley " says of these lines,... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - Great Britain - 1894 - 436 pages
...more characteristic figure who with his last breath adjures his community: ' Let men of God in court and churches watch O'er such as do a toleration hatch,...a cockatrice To poison all with heresy and vice.' Toleration, however, was the first principle in Penn's constitution ; no test or question of faith... | |
 | Anna Green Winslow - Boston (Mass.) - 1894 - 172 pages
...Hate heresy, make Messed ends ; Bear poverty, live with good men, So shall we meet with joy again. Let men of God in courts and churches watch O'er such...hatch ; Lest that ill egg bring forth a cockatrice, To prison all with heresy and vice. If men be left, and other wise combine My epitaph's, I dy'd no libertine.... | |
 | Ipswich (Mass.) - 1900 - 576 pages
...Ward and his friends and neighbors, Gov. Dudley and John Norton, agreed well in this. Dudley wrote: "Let men of God in courts and churches watch O'er such as do a toleration hatch," and Norton declared that for the putting down of error "the holy tactics of the civil sword should... | |
 | Edward Eggleston - History - 1896 - 416 pages
...that Dudley relieved his emotions by what is happily the only example of his verse that has survived : Let men of God in courts and churches watch O'er such...men be left and otherwise combine. My epitaph's I die no libertine. 288 289 XII. The most substantial grievance of the rulers against Williams was his... | |
 | Job Durfee - Rhode Island - 1896 - 250 pages
...the limits of their patent, and required his expulsion. He was the author of the following lines : " Let men of God in courts and churches watch O'er such...and vice. If men be left and otherwise combine, My epitaph 's I dy'd no libertine." Yet we ought, perhaps, to blame the system, rather than the magistrate... | |
 | J. Gregory - Puritans - 1896 - 432 pages
...for making verses, but also the spirit of the man and of the age in which he played his part — " Let men of God in courts and churches watch O'er such...a cockatrice To poison all with heresy and vice." John Winthrop was a gentleman of wealth and position who, at the age of forty-two, left his manor-house... | |
 | David Barnes Ford - Freedom of religion - 1896 - 288 pages
..."Anabaptists" could do in a contest with these eminent Puritan divines whose names are so highly eulogized. Let men of God in Courts and Churches watch O'er such...ill egg bring forth a cockatrice, To poison all with heresie and vice. If men be left and otherwise combine, My Epitaph's, I dy'd no libertine. A visitor... | |
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Let men of God in courts and churches watch O'er such as do a toleration hatch ; Lest that ill egg bring forth a cockatrice, To poison all with heresy and vice. 
