...Massachusetts. (After Portrait by Vandyke.) It being one chiefe project of that ould deluder, Satan, to keepe men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, . . . It is therefore ordered, that every towneship . . . appoint one within their towne to teach all such children as shall resort to him to...

...in 1647, the following General School Law was passed by the same Court : — " Scholes. — Sec. 1. It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan,...to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times by persuading from the...

...boon of secular education. The preamble to the Massachusetts school law of 1642 tells the story: j "It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan,...to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times, keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times, by persuading from...

...at Satan, as Luther did, they used its contents with as much vigor and wisdom. Their preamble says : It being one chief project of that old deluder Satan...to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times by keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times by persuading from...

...criminal nature. the code of 1650. The old statute had commenced with the quaint homily on ignorance : "It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan,...to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times [by] keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times by persuading them...

...the ministers and magistrates. The Massachusetts school law of 1649 set forth in the preamble that, " it being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan,...to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these later times persuading men from the...

...former instructions they will not be drawii unto it." ' In 1647 the following school code was enacted : "It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from tbe knowledge of tho scriptures, as in former times, keeping them tn an unknown tongue, so in these...

...on account of its brevity and the quaintness of its language. " It being one of the chief projects of that old deluder Satan to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former days by keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times by persuading from...

...not be drawn unto it." ' In 1647 the following school code was enacted: "It being one chief projeet of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the scriptures, as in former times, keeping them in ail unknown tongue, BO in these latter times, by persuading from...

...November, 1647, the following order was passed by the General Court: " It being one chief object of the old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times by keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times by persuading from...