...principle which they had laid down, as early as 1C31, as one of their fundamental laws, • • that no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body...members of some of the churches within the limits of the same."t As the churches were all of one kind, — the Independent or Congregational, — and as the...

...may be preserved of honest and good men, it is ordered and agreed, that for the time to come, no uian shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic...some of the churches within the limits of the same."* In other words, no one was to vote at elections, or could be chosen to any office in the commonwealth,...

...it was " ordered and agreed, that, for time to come, no man should be admitted to the freedom of the body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same." Thus church and state were closely united. Such were the fundamental principles of the community of...

...arrival, they " ordered and agreed that, for time to come, no man should be admitted to the freedom of the body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same." It was the aspiration of the Puritans to form a Christian republic, after the model of the Jewish theocracy,...

...on religious and civil liberty which animated the soul of Mr. Williams, on that very day the court " ordered and agreed, that for the time to come, no...some of the churches within the limits of the same." Thus a theocracy was established. The government belonged to the saints. They alone could rule in the...

...honest men, it was ordered and agreed, that for time to come, no man be admitted to the freedom of the body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same. Within the compass of the year 1631 arrived not so many ships as did the year before, fraught with...

...honest men, it was ordered and agreed, that for time to come, no man be admitted to the freedom of the body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same. Within the compass of the year 1631 arrived not so many ships as did the year before, fraught with...

...it is ordered and agreed, that, for the time to come, no one shall be admitted to the freedom of the body politic but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same." A similar law existed from the first in Newhaven, during the period of its separate existence, and...

...assistants. And, third, to the end the body of the commons may be preserved of honest and good men, ordered and agreed that for the time to come, no man...some of the churches within the limits of the same. Fourth, Thomas Williams having undertaken to set up a ferry between Winnesemet and Charlestown, he...

...it was agreed, in order that " the body of the commons may be preserved of honest and good men," " that for the time to come, no man shall be admitted...some of the churches within the limits of the same." This law has been severely censured, and it produced much dissension in the colony. It was not, however,...