Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day . mption sought by the members of the Churchof England had now been accorded, doubtless against the bestjudgment of many of the best men in the community, whofeared a general loosening of the bonds of religion, while, onthe other hand, it was received with the sanguine hope of greataccessions to the church. As is often the case, however, bothparties must have been disappointed. The day of religious in-difference had not arrived, and the force of the New Englandecclesiastical polity was not spent. The chief gains to
Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day . mption sought by the members of the Churchof England had now been accorded, doubtless against the bestjudgment of many of the best men in the community, whofeared a general loosening of the bonds of religion, while, onthe other hand, it was received with the sanguine hope of greataccessions to the church. As is often the case, however, bothparties must have been disappointed. The day of religious in-difference had not arrived, and the force of the New Englandecclesiastical polity was not spent. The chief gains to Episco-pacy were in the town of Boston, which had been outside theoperation of the laws complained of, and must have been largelydue to social causes which were powerful in the chief town ofthe province, where the influence of British ideas was felt, butwhich were weak in the country towns. While the Baptist de-nomination, being essentially a democratic movement, throveand grew under harsh treatment, the Church of England contin-ued, in a great degree, a stranger in the
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