[63]. Massachusetts Records, Vol. II, p. 51.
[64]. History of Rhode Island. By Samuel G. Arnold.
[65]. Ibid.
[66]. This is substantially the conclusion of Judge Brayton. (Defence of Samuel Gorton).
[67]. That Gorton believed in civil government also clearly appears in his correspondence relating to the Quakers, where he expressly dissents from their views about government.
[68]. Vide Nowell, Rawson, Winthrop, Winslow, Morton, et al.
[69]. “The Father was never knowne nor is he knowable but in Christ.” (Commentary on the Lord’s Prayer).
[70]. The quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are from Gorton’s unpublished Commentary on the Lord’s Prayer. (Commentary, p. 101).
[71]. “Though no church was formed in connection with his ministrations, he exercised a powerful influence upon the religious views of the Colony.” History of Warwick, p. 301. By Orris Payson Fuller, B. A.
[72]. He also differed with the Friends of his day in his views about government.