Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day . could they have seenthe Word of God warranting them to perform their devotions inthat way, and to have the same set up here. And as to eccle-siastical privileges they had commended to the ministry andpeople here the word of the Lord for their rule. The com-missioners shrewdly replied: Though you commend to theministers and people the word of the Lord for their rule, yetyou did it with the proviso that they have the approbation ofthe Court; and we have great reason both to think and say thatthe king and his council
Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day . could they have seenthe Word of God warranting them to perform their devotions inthat way, and to have the same set up here. And as to eccle-siastical privileges they had commended to the ministry andpeople here the word of the Lord for their rule. The com-missioners shrewdly replied: Though you commend to theministers and people the word of the Lord for their rule, yetyou did it with the proviso that they have the approbation ofthe Court; and we have great reason both to think and say thatthe king and his council and the Church of England understandand follow the rules in Gods Word as much as this the Court yielded nothing, refusing in the name of the kingto recognize the authority of those who claimed to representhim. They were recalled to England, and though the Colonywas ordered to send agents to answer the charges against itbefore the king, the danger was again postponed. But therewere now disintegrating forces working within the body politicin the same 4^rf<
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