John Harvard and his times . ty and virtue under false andadulterate nicknames, did abound there andgenerally in all the university. Nay, the verysin of lust began to be known and practisedby very boys; so as I was fain to live almosta recluses life, conversing chiefly in our owncollege with some of the honester fellowsthereof. But yet no Anabaptistical or Pela-gian heresies against Gods grace and provi-dence were then stirring, but the truth wasin all sermons and divinity acts asserted andmaintained. None then dared to commitidolatry by bowing to, or towards, or adoringthe altar, the communio
John Harvard and his times . ty and virtue under false andadulterate nicknames, did abound there andgenerally in all the university. Nay, the verysin of lust began to be known and practisedby very boys; so as I was fain to live almosta recluses life, conversing chiefly in our owncollege with some of the honester fellowsthereof. But yet no Anabaptistical or Pela-gian heresies against Gods grace and provi-dence were then stirring, but the truth wasin all sermons and divinity acts asserted andmaintained. None then dared to commitidolatry by bowing to, or towards, or adoringthe altar, the communion table, or the breadand wine in the sacrament of the Lords Sup-per. Only the power of godliness in respectof the practice of it, was in a most atheisti-cal and unchristian manner contemned andscoffed at. Seeing that each college was a self-containedcommunity, controlling its own affairs to alarge extent independently of the Senate, itwill be interesting to gain some idea of theconditions which prevailed in Emmanuel Col- 148. CAMBRIDGE lege, where John Harvard spent the sevenyears of his student life. Considering thespecial purpose of its foundation, it is notunreasonable to expect that its internal econ-omy and history presented some points ofcontrast as compared with the other colleges. Only forty-three years had passed awaysince Sir Walter Mildmay had signed thefoundation deed of Emmanuel. Over thegateway at the entrance of the building ranthe legend, Sacrce TheologicB Studiosis Gual-terus Mildmaius, and if that were not suffi-cient to indicate the primary purpose of thefounder, he made that object perfectly clearin the statute which said, I wish all to un-derstand, whether Fellows, scholars, or evenpensioners, who are to be admitted into theCollege, that the one object which I set beforeme in erecting this College was to render asmany as possible fit for the administration ofthe Divine Word and Sacraments; and thatfrom this seed-ground the English Churchmight have those tha
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