Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day . tions of the church. In later years, his ? 1 Church Docs. Mass. p. 83. GOVERNOR DUDLEY AND THE CHURCH. 191 ministry was to be shadowed by bitter oppositions and shortenedby disappointment, but at first all was bright. The active spiritof the young, vigorous English clergyman found scope in try-ing to plant nurslings of the Church at various places along therocky coast of Massachusetts. While happily confident that thecause which he represented had a superior claim upon the meekobedience of the children of the Puri
Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day . tions of the church. In later years, his ? 1 Church Docs. Mass. p. 83. GOVERNOR DUDLEY AND THE CHURCH. 191 ministry was to be shadowed by bitter oppositions and shortenedby disappointment, but at first all was bright. The active spiritof the young, vigorous English clergyman found scope in try-ing to plant nurslings of the Church at various places along therocky coast of Massachusetts. While happily confident that thecause which he represented had a superior claim upon the meekobedience of the children of the Puritans, he was yet on cordialterms with his neighbors; and after a severe rebuff in contro-versy from Dr. Increase Mather, he seems to have become stillmore friendly with them. Before his ministry should close, he-was to find this friendliness made an article of complaint againsthim by angry party spirit, inflamed with the double venom ofpolitical and ecclesiastical disputes in a period of peculiar viru-lence ; but at the beginning none of these clouds darkened theserene
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