Archbishop Trench has drawn an instructive and admonitory parallel between this condition of things on the Continent, in the 17th century, and the picture of the Church at Ephesus in the Book of Revelation.—Commentary on the Epistles to the Seven Churches, 73.
[472] Quoted in Anderson's History of the Colonial Church, i. 25-27.
Worthies of England, Derbyshire, i. 373.
[473] Anderson, i., 46-56.
[474] Advertisement for the Unexperienced Planters in New England, &c., p. 32, quoted in Anderson's Colonial Church, i. 180.
[475] Anderson's History of the Colonial Church, i. 217, 231.
[476] Ibid., i. 267.
Bancroft, i. 178, 206.
Even Mr. Anderson, who praises Virginia for its tolerance, acknowledges, "that if the enactments concerning the Church had been literally enforced, the Puritan would have found no resting-place within its borders."—i. 270.
[477] Anderson, i. 461-2.