[[7]] Alexander Johnston, Connecticut: A Study of a Commonwealth-Democracy, 72, Hooker's sermon preparatory to forming a government.

[[8]] The Works of John Robinson, American edition of 1851, I., 53.

[[9]] Ibid., 47.

[[10]] Ibid., 54.

[[11]] Ibid., 56.

[[12]] J.R. Trumbull, History of Northampton, I. 213.

[[13]] An Appeal to the Learned, being a vindication of the right of visible saints to the Lord's Supper, though they be destitute of a saving work of God's Spirit in their hearts, Boston, 1709. See also his Doctrine of Instituted Churches, Boston, 1700.

[[14]] Dwight, Life of Edwards, 300.

[[15]] S.K. Lothrop, History of Brattle Street Church, 7-40; E. Turrell, Life of Benjamin Colman, D.D., 96, 125, 178, 180.

[[16]] The Churches' Quarrel Espoused, edition of 1860, 140.