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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. "
A Biographical Dictionary: Containing a Brief Account of the First Settlers ... - Page 154
by John Eliot - 1809 - 511 pages
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Massachusetts: Its Historians and Its History: An Object Lesson

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...
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Official Report of the Reunion of the Descendants of Governor Thomas Dudley ...

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...
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Annual Meeting of the Governor Thomas Dudley Family Association and ...

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,...
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Historical Sketches of the Reign of Queen Anne

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...
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Diary of Anna Green Winslow: A Boston School Girl of 1771

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....
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Publications of the Ipswich Historical Society, Volumes 8-15

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...
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The Beginners of a Nation: A History of the Source and Rise of the Earliest ...

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...otherwise combine. My epitaph's I die no libertine. 288 289 XII. The most substantial grievance of the rulers against Williams was his opposition to "...
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What Cheer, Or, Roger Williams in Banishment: A Poem

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...
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Puritanism in the Old World and in the New, from Its Inception in the Reign ...

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...
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New England's Struggles for Religious Liberty

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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