24 ([return])
[ Milman, Latin Christianity, vii. 390.]
25 ([return])
[ Doyle, ii. 133, 134; Rhode Island Records, i. 377, 378.]
26 ([return])
[ Colonial Laws of Massachusetts, pp. 14-16; Levermore's Republic of New Haven, p. 153.]
27 ([return])
[ See my remarks above, p. 145.]
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[ The daring passage in the sermon is thus given in Bacon's Historical Discourses, New Haven, 1838: "Withhold not countenance, entertainment, and protection from the people of God—whom men may call fools and fanatics—if any such come to you from other countries, as from France or England, or any other place. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers. Remember those that are in bonds, as bound with them. The Lord required this of Moab, saying, 'Make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth. Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler.' Is it objected—'But so I may expose myself to be spoiled or troubled'? He, therefore, to remove this objection, addeth, 'For the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.' While we are attending to our duty in owning and harbouring Christ's witnesses, God will be providing for their and our safety, by destroying those that would destroy his people.">[