And plan, ’tis said, to found in easy reach

A State where Antichrist himself may preach.

X.

“From such a State our blessed elders see

The church may, even here, the infection share;

And therefore have the Council made decree,

That to the wilderness thou shalt not fare;

But have their mandate hither sent by me,

That thou to Boston presently repair;—

Where waits a ship now ready for the sea,