 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...  The Congregational Quarterly - Page 491edited by - 1869Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Greene Arnold - Rhode Island - 1859 - 606 pages
...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...members of some of the churches within the limits of the same."1 This extraordinary law continued in force until the dissolution of the government,' and the... | |
 | Samuel Greene Arnold - Rhode Island - 1859 - 602 pages
...commons may be preserved of honest and good men, it was ordered and agreed, that for the time to tome, no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body...members of some of the churches within the limits of the same."1 This extraordinary law continued in force until the dissolution of the government,8 and the... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - Discovery and Colonization - 1859 - 674 pages
...that, for the time to come, no ° . Religious man shall be admitted to the freedom of this test for the body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same." l The men who laid this singular foundation for the commonwealth which they were instituting, had been... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - History - 1859 - 686 pages
...Religious man shall be admitted to the freedom of this i<«t forth. ___... _ _ _ franchise. body pol1tIc, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same." l The men who laid this singular foundation for the commonwealth which they were instituting, had been... | |
 | Charles Hudson - Marlborough (Mass.) - 1862 - 584 pages
...As early as 1631, they ordered that " no man shall be admitted to the freedom of the Commonwealth, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of this jurisdiction." This law operating hardly against some recent emigrants, it was so modified in... | |
 | Henry Martyn Dexter - Congregationalism - 1865 - 350 pages
...ordered and agreed that for time to come noe man slmibe admitted to the freedome of this bojy polliticke, but such as are members of some of the churches within the ly mitts of the same." —(May 1S, 1031,l Records ofthe Colony of Mass. Bay, voi, i, p. S7. The Connecticut... | |
 | Great Britain - 1866 - 690 pages
...1631, as one of their « Bancroft's "History of the United States," i. 338. fundamental laws, " that no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body...some of the churches within the limits of the same."* As the churches were all of one kind — the Independent or Congregational, — and as the magistrates... | |
 | William Carlos Martyn - Massachusetts - 1867 - 486 pages
...preserved of honest and good men' — so runs the old text— 'it is ordered and agreed that, for the time to come, no man shall be admitted to the freedom...as are members of some of the churches within the corporate limit.' This rule stood unchanged until after the Restoration. Thus was the elective franchise... | |
 | Criticism - 1867 - 830 pages
...ordered 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 ' See North American Review, Izxxiv., p. 453. f Monrt's Relation, p. 3. \ Mau. Col. Rtc., i., 73. lymitts... | |
 | Theology - 1868 - 802 pages
...several! of the inhabitants of the county of Midlesex, doe declare and order, that no man whosoever shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic but such as are members of some church of Christ,-and in full communion, which they declare to be the true intent of that anncient... | |
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