G.
[30]. In the first edition this was printed “man.” Mr. Savage, in a note, says: “In the original MS. this word has been tampered with, perhaps by some zealot, yet it appears clearly enough to be Winthrop’s usual abbreviation for that which is restored in the text, and Prince read it as I do.”
[31]. Quincy’s Hist. Dis. 1830, p. 20.
[32]. Hutchinson, vol. i. Appendix, No. 1.
[33]. The reply of the ministers of the church to this objection is worthy of notice, as confirming the views which have been stated respecting their feelings toward the Church of England. “They did not (they declared) separate from the Church of England, nor from the ordinances of God there, but only from the corruptions and disorders of that Church; that they came away from the common prayer and ceremonies, and had suffered much for their non-conformity in their native land, and therefore, being in a place where they might have their liberty, they neither could nor would use them, inasmuch as they judged the imposition of these things to be a violation of the worship of God.” Magnalia, b. i. ch. iv. § 8.
[34]. Snow’s History of Boston, p. 30.
[35]. Winthrop, vol. i. p. 32.
[36]. Ibid, vol. i. p. 87.
[37]. Snow’s Hist. of Boston, p. 42.
[38]. Winthrop, vol. i. p. 30, note.