[221] [See Tracts on Lib. of Conscience, Introd. p. xxxii.]
[222] [The Assembly of Divines was at this time engaged in forming a directory of worship for the entire nation.]
[223] [The central part of a target, which anciently was painted white.]
[224] [There are two chapters numbered CXX. in the original copy.]
[225] Nero and the persecuting emperors were not so injurious to Christianity, as Constantine and others who assumed a power in spiritual things. Under Constantine Christianity fell into corruption, and Christians fell asleep.
[226] [Martial, De Spectaculis Libellus, Ep. ix.]
[227] [See Neal’s Hist. of Puritans, i. 353, edit. 1837.]
[228] Is not this too like the pope’s profession of servus servorum Dei, yet holding out his slipper to the lips of princes, kings, and emperors?
[229] [For elucidations of the references made by Mr. Williams in this preface to his sufferings, and for Mr. Cotton’s reply, see the Biographical Introduction.]
[230] [It is] a monstrous paradox, that God’s children should persecute God’s children, and that they that hope to live eternally together with Christ Jesus in the heavens, should not suffer each other to live in this common air together, &c. I am informed it was the speech of an honourable knight of the parliament: “What! Christ persecute Christ in New England?”[231]