Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day . V THE PURITAN COMMONWEALTH. 13 sidercd for his personal sufferings; but the rage of the timesand the neglect of proper applications since have left to hisfamily only the honor of that Vote and Resolution. He wasone of the largest subscribers to raise money against the Rebelsin Ireland. l Thus our Puritan forefathers had no love for the institutionsof the English Church, and gladly would have kept the salt seabetween them and that ecclesiastical organization which was soassociated in their minds with all that was i
Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day . V THE PURITAN COMMONWEALTH. 13 sidercd for his personal sufferings; but the rage of the timesand the neglect of proper applications since have left to hisfamily only the honor of that Vote and Resolution. He wasone of the largest subscribers to raise money against the Rebelsin Ireland. l Thus our Puritan forefathers had no love for the institutionsof the English Church, and gladly would have kept the salt seabetween them and that ecclesiastical organization which was soassociated in their minds with all that was intolerant and oppres-sive. They had fled from that church on a long journey and atthe price of bitter sacrifices. It had driven them out from theEngland which was their home, and which they loved. It is notstrange that when they once enjoyed the freedom which theyhad obtained with so great a price; when they had establisheda commonwealth disposed according to their own ideas of theDivine Law, based on their interpretation of the Bible, andordered from beginning to end, as the
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