[67] Ibid., p. 25.
[68] The connection of the Puritan-Independent doctrine of the state-compact with the Puritan idea of church covenants is brought out by Borgeaud, p. 9. Weingarten (p. 288) remarks forcibly of the Independents, "The right of every separate religious community freely and alone to decide and conduct their affairs was the foundation of the doctrine of the sovereignty of the people, which they introduced into the political consciousness of the modern world."
[69] First reproduced in Gardiner, History of the Great Civil War, III, London, 1891, pp. 607-609.
[70] The final text in Gardiner, Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, Oxford, 1889, pp. 270-282.
[71] Gardiner, History, III, p. 568.
[72] "That matters of religion and the ways of God's worship are not at all entrusted by us to any human power." Gardiner, History, p. 608.
[73] Cf. the text in Gardiner, History, p. 609.
[74] Cf. Dicey, loc. cit., pp. 229, 230, where several laws are mentioned restricting the liberty of expressing religious opinion which are, however, obsolete, though they have never been formally repealed.
[75] The complete text in Poore, I, p. 931. That it was far from the intentions of the settlers to found an independent state is evident from the entire document, in which they characterize themselves as "subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James".
[76] On Williams, cf. Weingarten, pp. 36 et seq., and 293, Bancroft, I, pp. 276 et seq., Masson, The Life of John Milton, II, pp. 560 et seq. The advance of the Independent movement to unconditional freedom of faith is thoroughly discussed by Weingarten, pp. 110 et seq.