John Harvard and his times . tenets and writings also of all ourProtestant divines, as well Lutheran as Cal-vinistic. I supped at night at Sidney College,with the same Dr. Ward, where we both la-mented the times that this wicked Nevel durstso impudently and openly maintain the vilestand most feculent points of all Popery. With such a daring attack on Luther andCalvin ringing in his ears, Harvard took a lastfarewell of his university. On the journey tohis home in Southwark he would have ampletime to reflect on the years that were gone andhis projects for the years which were to man
John Harvard and his times . tenets and writings also of all ourProtestant divines, as well Lutheran as Cal-vinistic. I supped at night at Sidney College,with the same Dr. Ward, where we both la-mented the times that this wicked Nevel durstso impudently and openly maintain the vilestand most feculent points of all Popery. With such a daring attack on Luther andCalvin ringing in his ears, Harvard took a lastfarewell of his university. On the journey tohis home in Southwark he would have ampletime to reflect on the years that were gone andhis projects for the years which were to many of his predecessors at Emman-uel, including John Cotton, Thomas Hooker,Thomas Shepard, and Samuel Stone, hadsailed away to the New World in quest of thatreligious liberty which was denied them intheir native land; and it may be that the voiceof this wicked Nevel, raised in defence ofprinciples dear to the heart of Laud, warnedJohn Harvard that his path, too, lay across thewaves of the Atlantic. 196 VILAST YEARS IN ENGLAND. ii^iMi CHAPTER VILAST YEARS IN ENGLAND HAD all been well in his Southwarkhome, John Harvard would havejoyfully welcomed the day of his re-turn thither. For seven years he had beensevered from that affectionate mother whosecompanionship had been his constant happi-ness from his birth to his twentieth year. Nodoubt his character had undergone consider-able change during his residence at Cambridge,but that his absence from home had lessenedhis love for his parent is beyond belief. Onthe contrary, it is not unreasonable to think ithad increased its strength. Whatever, too, may have been his reflec-tions concerning the future of Puritanism atCambridge and in his native land, John Har-vard, as he looked back on his university ca-reer, can have had no cause for his personal conduct had been free from 199 JOHN HARVARD AND HIS TIMES blame, is demonstrated by the absence of hisname from the admonitions which, amongthe records of Emmanuel College, p
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