Excerpt from Lady Deborah Moody: A Discourse Delivered Before the New York Historical Society, May 1880 The State, too, as in the country they had abandoned, was retained as comptroller m ecclesiastical affairs, and given power to punish ecclesiastical offences. In an address by the elders, in convention, to the General Court at Boston, the claim is made that it belongs to the civil powers to exercise care and authority in matters pertaining to religion and public worship, and to suppress enormities and heresies. In the ...
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Excerpt from Lady Deborah Moody: A Discourse Delivered Before the New York Historical Society, May 1880 The State, too, as in the country they had abandoned, was retained as comptroller m ecclesiastical affairs, and given power to punish ecclesiastical offences. In an address by the elders, in convention, to the General Court at Boston, the claim is made that it belongs to the civil powers to exercise care and authority in matters pertaining to religion and public worship, and to suppress enormities and heresies. In the introduction to the laws of the colony of Plymouth is found the following declaration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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