History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . the days of the proud Britonscouplet Others may use the ocean as their road,Only the English make it their abode. After the four na-tions in the BritishIsles, none did betterwork in the settle-ment and develop- ment of Americathan the Dutch,from whom the Pil-grim and Puritanborrowed manyideas and Americans in !1776 and 1787adopted substanti-ally the principleand procedure ofthe Dutch federalgovernment. To meet possibleopposition from the ., ifKKing, High Church- men Parliament the balth
History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . the days of the proud Britonscouplet Others may use the ocean as their road,Only the English make it their abode. After the four na-tions in the BritishIsles, none did betterwork in the settle-ment and develop- ment of Americathan the Dutch,from whom the Pil-grim and Puritanborrowed manyideas and Americans in !1776 and 1787adopted substanti-ally the principleand procedure ofthe Dutch federalgovernment. To meet possibleopposition from the ., ifKKing, High Church- men Parliament the balthasar bekker by his writings throttled . , . WITCHCRAFT. Virginia Company, and rival organizations or any other uprising antagonisticelement, the Separatists flung to the breeze on the eve of theirdeparture from Holland the Seven Leyden Pacifist Articleswhich, abridged, read as follows: i. To the Confession of Faith published in the name ofthe Church of England, and to every article thereof wedo, with the Reformed churches where we live and else-where,^ assent wholly. •The italics arc 238 HISTORY OF THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS 2. We do desire to keep spiritual communion in peace,and will practice on our part all lawful things. 3. Kings majesty we acknowledge if the thing com-manded be not against Gods word, or passive if it be, ex-cept pardon can be ob- tained. 4. We judge it law-ful for His Majesty toappoint bishops officesof authority in severalprovinces; dioceses inall things to give ac-count. 5. The authority ofbishops in the land wedo acknowledge so faras the same is indeedderived from His Ma-jesty unto them. 6. We believe thatno synod, clan, convo-cation, or assembly hasany power save throughthat given by the magis-trates. 7. We desire to give to all superiors due honor topreserve the unity of the spirit with all that fear God, tohave peace with all men what in us lieth and wherein weare to be instructed. The Pilgrim Fathers were confronted by most intricateconditio
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