[78]See Neal, "History of the Puritans," II. 418-450.
[79]Whitelock's "Memorials," I. 68.
[80]Neal, II. 553. Compare with the French Revolution. When the Bastille was demolished, they wrote on the ruins these words: "Ici l'on danse." From this contrast we see the difference between the two systems and the two nations.
[81]Neal, "History of the Puritans," II, 555.
[82]Macaulay, "History of England," ed. Lady Trevelyan, I. 121.
[83]A certain John Denis was publicly whipped for having sung a profane song. Mathias, a little girl, having given some roasted chestnuts to Jeremiah Boosy, and told him ironically that he might give them back to her in Paradise, was ordered to ask pardon three times in church, and to be three days on bread and water in prison. 1660-1670; records of Massachusetts.
[84]"Upon the common sense of Scripture," said Major-General Disbrowe, "there are few but do commit blasphemy, as our Saviour puts it in Mark: 'sins, blasphemies; it so, then none without blasphemy.' It was charged upon David and Eli's son, 'thou hast blasphemed, or caused others to blaspheme.'"—Burton's Diary, I. 54.
[85]Guizot, "Portraits Politiques," 5th ed. 1862.
[86]"Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners."
[87]Ibid. sec. 12.