. Bowen's Picture of Boston, or The citizen's and stranger's guide to the metropolis of Massachusetts, and its environs. : To which is prefixed the Annals of Boston. ; Embellished with engravings. otice, that by order of thecourt, the doors of this house are shut up, and thatthey are inhibited to hold any meeting, or to open thedoors thereof without license from authority, till theGeneral Court take further order, as they will answerthe contrary at their peril. Dated at Boston 8th March, 1680. Edward Rawson, Secretary. The church held public worship in the yard in frontof the meeting house on
. Bowen's Picture of Boston, or The citizen's and stranger's guide to the metropolis of Massachusetts, and its environs. : To which is prefixed the Annals of Boston. ; Embellished with engravings. otice, that by order of thecourt, the doors of this house are shut up, and thatthey are inhibited to hold any meeting, or to open thedoors thereof without license from authority, till theGeneral Court take further order, as they will answerthe contrary at their peril. Dated at Boston 8th March, 1680. Edward Rawson, Secretary. The church held public worship in the yard in frontof the meeting house on the succeeding Sabbath, soonafter which the Government ordered the doors to beagain opened. But they now resolved to use moreeffectual means to crush this infant church. Many ofits members were harrassed, fined, and imprisoned. Itsfirst three pastors were at different times kept in closeconfinement. Mr. Thos. Gould the first pastor formaintaining his own opinions in matters of religion,was imprisoned for nearly three years. But theseprejudices and fears, entertained by the friends of theestablished church, began at length to subside; andin the year 1718, the feeling of toleration had made-. L^Jlfli -jiTrr^-iL ^?JiAT^dj-,
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