 | John D. Minor - History - 1870 - 434 pages
...arrival, they 'ordered and agreed that, for time to come, no man should be admitted to the freedom of the body politic but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same.' u It was the aspiration of the Puritans to form a Christian republic... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - Local government - 1872 - 108 pages
...following act was passed :— " To the end that the body of the commons may be honest and good men, it was ordered and agreed, that for the time to come,...politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same." other that all laws would be better than the laws of a centralized... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - Local government - 1872 - 118 pages
...following act was passed : — " To the end that the body of the commons may be honest and good men, it was ordered and agreed, that for the time to come,...politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same." • By thus limiting the right of suffrage to the aristocracy of goodness... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - African Americans - 1872 - 194 pages
...following act was passed :— " To the end that the body of the commons may be honest and good men, it was ordered and agreed, that for the time to come,...politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same." other that all laws would be better than the laws of a centralized... | |
 | Richard Frothingham - United States - 1872 - 676 pages
...18, 1631, before there was a representative body in Massachusetts," that no man should be admitted to this body politic but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same " This was not repealed until Aug 3, 1G64. — Mass. Records. An act... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - Religion - 1873 - 180 pages
...to insure the preservation of the church order first established by the colonists, it was decreed, " that, for the time to come, no man shall be admitted...politic but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same " (1631, Mass. Colonial Record, i. 87). In the Colony of New Haven (1639)... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - Baptists - 1874 - 524 pages
...Court for Election," " to the end the body of the commons may be preserved of honest and good men," it was " ordered and agreed that, for the time to...politic but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same," and it is well known that very soon laws were enacted to expel Baptists,... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1874 - 1076 pages
...it was ordered and agreed that for the tune to come no man shall be admitted to the freedom of the body politic but such as are members of some of the churches within the bounds of the sames." As Laud's hands grew heavier the number of Puritan emigrants rose... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1875 - 912 pages
...it was ordered and agreed that for the time to come no man shall be admitted to the freedom of the body politic but such as are members of some of the churches within the bounds of the same." As Laud's hands grew heavier the number of Puritan emigrants rose fast... | |
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To the end the body of the commons may be preserved of honest and good men, it was ordered and agreed, that, for the time to come, no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the... 
